The COPS Tribal Meth Initiative Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA) Project will work with the twenty-five Tribal Meth Grantees, representing 36 Native American Tribes, to build their capacity to implement the three community policing pillars of Partnerships, Problem Solving, and Organizational Transformation to reduce methamphetamine production, distribution, and use.
 
The Tribal Meth Initiative is an exciting opportunity to build the capacity and to impact the field more broadly as innovations and key learnings emerge. Strategic Applications International’s (SAI) use of a culturally sensitive training and technical assistance model based on mutual learning, indigenous leadership development through the Tribal Meth Fellows, the formation of multi-disciplinary teams to problem solve key issues using community policing principles, and the use of a community-led assessment model provide the COPS Office with a powerful support system for the Tribal Meth Grantees.
 
SAI proposes to use the role of data collection, monitoring and evaluation as an opportunity to train Tribal Meth grantees on cutting edge community-led research and evaluation methods to support their own efforts to understand the nature of the issues they are dealing with and to study the impact of their community policing interventions.