Abstract
Family prevention programs that enhance mental health, wellness, and resilience—while simultaneously addressing violence and alcohol and other drug (AOD) abuse—among Indigenous families are scarce. This gap in culturally grounded and community-based programs creates a critical need to develop and evaluate the efficacy of such prevention programs. This article fills this gap, with the purpose of describing the structure and content of the Weaving Healthy Families (WHF) program, a culturally grounded and community-based program aimed at preventing violence and AOD use while promoting mental health, resilience, and wellness in Indigenous families. The focus then turns to how to approach this process of developing and implementing the program in a culturally grounded and community-based way.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 245-261 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Families in Society |
| Volume | 104 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 2023 |
Funding
The authors thank the dedicated work and participation of the tribes and collaborators who contributed to this work. In particular, we thank Dana Kingfisher, Emily Matt Salois, d’Shane Barnett, Lily Gervais, Tanell Broncho, Kristen Pyke, Ann Douglas, Ivan MacDonald, Trilanda No Runner, and Lida Running and all the staff at the All Nations Health Center in Missoula, Montana, for their important contributions to the pilot program. We also thank Jennifer Martin, Juannina Mingo, Dan Isaac, Clarissa Stewart, Mariah Lewis, and Jeremy Chickaway for their incredible commitment, time, and energy devoted to the Weaving Healthy Families (WHF) Program. We thank Katherine P. Theall, Charles R. Figley, Karina Walters, James Allen, and Tonette Krousel-Wood for their support and mentorship for this pilot program. We thank The National Association for Children of Addiction for the original program that the WHF program was developed from and White Bison for introducing cultural components. The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Fahs-Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation Faculty Grant Program (grant number 552745); The Silberman Fund Faculty Grant Program (grant number 552781); the Newcomb College Institute Faculty Grant at Tulane University; University Senate Committee on Research Grant Program at Tulane University; the Global South Research Grant through the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane University; The Center for Public Service at Tulane University; Office of Research Bridge Funding Program support at Tulane University; and the Carol Lavin Bernick Research Grant at Tulane University. This work was also supported, in part, by Award K12HD043451 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health (Krousel-Wood-PI; Catherine McKinley [Formerly Burnette]-Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health [BIRCWH] Scholar); and by U54 GM104940 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health, which funds the Louisiana Clinical and Translational Science Center. Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R01AA028201. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Fahs-Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation Faculty Grant Program (grant number 552745); The Silberman Fund Faculty Grant Program (grant number 552781); the Newcomb College Institute Faculty Grant at Tulane University; University Senate Committee on Research Grant Program at Tulane University; the Global South Research Grant through the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane University; The Center for Public Service at Tulane University; Office of Research Bridge Funding Program support at Tulane University; and the Carol Lavin Bernick Research Grant at Tulane University. This work was also supported, in part, by Award K12HD043451 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health (Krousel-Wood-PI; Catherine McKinley [Formerly Burnette]-Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health [BIRCWH] Scholar); and by U54 GM104940 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health, which funds the Louisiana Clinical and Translational Science Center. Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R01AA028201. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
| Funders | Funder number |
|---|---|
| U54 GM104940 | |
| K12HD043451 | |
| 552745, 552781 | |
| R01AA028201 | |
| Tulane University | |
Keywords
- Native American
- WHF program development
- alcohol and other drug use
- clinical trials
- community-based participatory research
- substance abuse
- trauma
- violence
