Promoting First Relationships®: Implementing a Home Visiting Research Program in Two American Indian Communities

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-156
Author(s):  
Monica Oxford ◽  
Cathryn Booth-LaForce ◽  
Abigail Echo-Hawk ◽  
Odile Madesclaire ◽  
Lorilynn Parrish ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
Home Visiting ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Conference Calls ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Indian Reservation ◽  
Project Staff ◽  
Program Fidelity ◽  
Community Needs

Background Few, if any, home visiting programs for children under the age of three have been culturally adapted for American Indian reservation settings. We recently adapted one such program: Promoting First Relationships®. Objectives To culturally adapt Promoting First Relationships® while maintaining program fidelity, we used a community-based participatory approach to elicit input from two American Indian partners. Methods University-based researchers, reservation-based Native project staff, and Native tribal liaisons conducted collaborative meetings, conference calls, and focus groups to adapt Promoting First Relationships® to reflect local community needs and values. Lessons Learned Working closely with onsite Native project staff, being flexible and open to suggestions, and attending to the logistical needs of the community are imperative to developing and implementing adaptations. Conclusions Several adaptations were made based on the collaboration between researchers and Native project staff. Collaboration is critical for adapting programs so they can be tested in ways that respect both American Indian culture and research needs.

At the Canyon’s Edge: Depression in American Indian Culture

EXPLORE ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth S. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
Indian Culture

Prevention of Alcohol Misuse: A Review of Health Promotion Efforts among American Indians

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 288-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip A. May ◽  
James R. Moran
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Native American ◽  
American Indian ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Alcohol Misuse ◽  
Heavy Drinking ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Wide Range

Purpose. The purpose of this review is to provide an overview of a wide range of potentially useful strategies to address the prevention of alcohol misuse among American Indians. This broad approach to the review is useful because the extreme heterogeneity of the American Indian population requires that health promotion professionals explore many options and tailor their activities to specific communities. Search Method. A literature search was initiated through MEDLINE using the following key words: prevention, alcohol, substance abuse, American Indian, and Native American. The search yielded 29 articles from the years 1982 through 1994. These articles, along with 45 previously identified in three overview articles, form the basis of the review and discussion in this paper. Summary of findings. As a group, American Indians experience many health problems that are related to alcohol misuse. Comparison of Indians to non-Indians shows that the age of first involvement with alcohol is younger, the frequency and amount of drinking is greater, and negative consequences are more common. Health promotion programs that address these issues must take into account American Indian heterogeneity and should use a comprehensive approach that addresses both heavy drinking and the sequelae of problems related to alcohol misuse. Major Conclusions. Important concepts for providing health promotion services to this population are: cultural relevance must be carefully planned and monitored; individuals in the local community must be involved; the drunken Indian stereotype must be addressed; and community empowerment should be an important goal.

scholarly journals Book Review: American Indian Culture: From Counting Coup to Wampum

2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 323
Author(s):  
Madeline Veitch
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Native American ◽  
High School Students ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
School Students ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Selective Approach ◽  
Upper Level

In his preface to American Indian Culture, Editor Bruce E. Johansen outlines a highly selective approach to documenting historical and contemporary expressions of Native American cultures. Aimed at upper level-high school students and college undergraduates, this work is framed not as an encyclopedic resource but as “an introduction to a large and rich field of study” focused on “the interface of tradition and change” across cultural expressions such as art, literature, music, and dance (xiii).

scholarly journals Participatory Design of an Activities-Based Collective Mentoring Program in After-School Care Settings: Connect, Promote, and Protect Program (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alyssa C Milton ◽  
Elizabeth Stewart ◽  
Laura Ospina-Pinillos ◽  
Tracey Davenport ◽  
Ian B Hickie
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
After School ◽  
Acceptance Testing ◽  
Mentoring Program ◽  
Community Needs ◽  
Research And Design

BACKGROUND Out of school hours care (OSHC) services provide a unique opportunity to deliver early intervention programs to enhance primary school–aged children’s social, emotional, physical, and cognitive well-being; however, such programs are currently lacking. OBJECTIVE This study aims to address the lack of well-being programs for children accessing OSHC services in the research literature by using participatory design (PD) to collaboratively develop and test an OSHC well-being program—the connect, promote, and protect program (CP3). METHODS The study employed methods of PD, user (acceptance) testing, and iterative knowledge translation to develop a novel well-being program framework—CP3—with key stakeholders (eg, children, OSHC staff, volunteers, families, clinicians, educators, and researchers). Thematic techniques were used to interpret and translate the qualitative information obtained during the research and design cycles. RESULTS The co-design process generated the CP3 model, which comprises a group-based mentoring approach to facilitate enhanced activities in OSHC settings. Activities are underpinned by 4 key principles of program delivery: build well-being and resilience, broaden horizons, inspire and engage, and connect communities. CONCLUSIONS To our knowledge, the CP3 program is the first co-designed well-being program developed specifically for OSHC services. This co-design process is key to ensuring local community needs—particularly those of young people accessing OSHC—are met and that these individuals are meaningfully and actively involved in all stages of the research and design process, from conception to implementation, evaluation, and continuous improvement. CLINICALTRIAL

scholarly journals High-Efficiency Housing at the Fort Peck Indian Reservation: Opportunities and Lessons Learned

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars J. Lisell ◽  
◽  
Jesse D. Dean ◽  
Jal D. Desai ◽  
Tim Rehder
Keyword(s):  
High Efficiency ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Indian Reservation

Action-research in community development

1973 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ray Lees
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Voluntary Organizations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Experiment ◽  
The Government

At the end of 1971 the Government designated the extention of the Community Development Project to the planned total of twelve areas. The project was then described as ‘a national action-research experiment’ carried out in selected urban localities in order to discover ‘how far the social problems experienced by people in a local community can be better understood and resolved through closer co-ordination of all agencies in the social welfare field – central and local government and the voluntary organizations – together with the local people themselves’. There was a special emphasis placed on the importance of ‘citizen involvement and community self-help’, together with the expectation that ‘the lessons learned can be fed back into social policy, planning and administration, both at central and local government level’.

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