Raymond Daw, MA Counseling
raydaw@aol.com
Cell: (505) 320-8912

Ray is a member of the Navajo Nation, bilingual in Navajo and English. He is currently Executive Director of Totah Behavioral Health Authority, located in Farmington, NM. Totah provides intervention services to individuals who are homeless and substance abuse dependent. Prior to this, he was Executive Director of Na’nizhoozhi Center, Inc. (www.wellbriety-nci.org), where he managed for 15 years a 150-bed voluntary/involuntary residential program that provided behavioral health outpatient, residential, prevention, and technical assistance to Gallup, McKinley County, the Navajo Nation, and a number of tribal communities in Arizona and New Mexico. NCI was recognized as a model and innovative program, which is included in the Clinical Trials Network with the National Institute of Drug Abuse, through the University of New Mexico.
Areas of interest and activities include;
1. Historical Trauma prevention and intervention
2. Grantsmanship
3. Native American prevention and intervention
4. Strategic planning
5. Behavioral Health programs and system design.
6. Program evaluation
7. Non-profit management
8. Leadership development
9. Web and graphic design
10. Coalition-building
11. Environmental policy, substance abuse and behavioral health

He is also a trainer for the Takini Group on the historical trauma intervention model, as developed by Dr. Yellowhorse-Braveheart , Columbia University. He is a former member of the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of American Advisory Committee (CADCA.org), and the Board of Directors for the International Association of Public Participation (IAP2.org).
Other past and current activities include:

1. Advisory Committee for the SAMHSA Co-Occurring Disorders Center for Excellence (COCE).
2. Co-chair of the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s Native American Workgroup.
3. Member, Advisory Committee, Native American Social Work Program, University of Denver
4. Member, Advisory Committee, Center for Native American Health, The Univeristy of New Mexico
5. SAMHSA/CSAT Native American Co-Occurring Disorders Policy Academy Workgroup.
6. NIMH New Generations Research Workgroup.
7. Member, Advisory Committee, Evidence-based Programs in Indian Country, University of Colorado.
8. Member of the New Mexico DWI Grant Council and Native American DWI Taskforce, and participates in several Native American planning groups in New Mexico.
9. Member, National Native American Methamphetamine Workgroup.

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