American Indian Development Associates (AIDA)/

American Indian Development Associates

The AIDA mission is to build the capacity of communities to address crime, delinquency, violence, and victimization issues and problems by assisting local, tribal, state, and federal governments to develop comprehensive, system-wide responses to these problems. Our overall goal is to provide training, technical assistance, research, and evaluation to governments and communities by building upon the strengths of their institutions, culture, and their knowledge, skills, and abilities. By building on these strengths, we expand our role beyond technical assistance providers, researchers, and trainers, to facilitators of a process of development controlled by the Indian nations and/or local community. A secondary goal is to assist governmental and non-governmental agencies in promoting and developing culturally appropriate and effective solutions for local problems through focused training, technical assistance, research, and/or evaluation.