SCC-PG: SUNRISE: Using Mobile Games in Rural Tribal Communities to Promote Social and Emotional Resilience in Youth

生活在部落保留地的青少年在美国经历的行为健康差异率最高，这是由于差异，包括缺乏基于社区的预防措施，围绕精神疾病和获得行为健康护理的耻辱，以及缺乏对行为健康护理的感知需求。这项规划拨款旨在调查社会技术，基于社区的行为健康干预的可行性，例如，整合部落社区价值观，移动的健康和教育游戏。这项研究将与霍皮机会青年倡议（HOYI）合作进行，该组织旨在通过服务学习，指导和社区课程来解决生活在霍皮保留地的青年的社会和情感需求。整合计算机科学，心理学，教育和应用土著研究的专业知识，这种跨学科的方法旨在通过使行为健康教育更容易为年轻人所接受，并为缺乏强大能力的社区所接受，从而对许多难以获得行为医疗保健服务的部落和偏远社区产生影响电信基础设施。研究活动旨在：（一）确定霍皮族社区的行为健康问题;（二）构思设计一个可持续的社会和情绪健康恢复力（日出）应用程序;（三）描述社区可用的电信基础设施。该研究利用并结合了几种已被证明成功支持美国印第安人/阿拉斯加土著青年群体行为健康的方法。在部落社区加强社会和情感弹性技能是解决这些社区经历的其他有害的经济，教育和身体健康不平等的关键第一步。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

Youth living on tribal reservations experience behavioral health disparities at some of the highest rates in the United States due to disparities, including lack of community-based preventative measures, stigmas surrounding mental illness and accessing behavioral health care, and lack of perceived need for behavioral health care. This planning grant seeks to investigate the feasibility of a sociotechnical, community-based behavioral health intervention that integrates, for example, tribal community values, mobile health, and educational gaming. The research will be carried out in partnership with the Hopi Opportunity Youth Initiative (HOYI), an organization that seeks to address the social and emotional needs of youth living on the Hopi Reservation through service learning, mentorship, and community curriculum.Integrating expertise from computer science, psychology, education, and applied Indigenous studies, this interdisciplinary approach aims to be impactful for many tribal and remote communities that struggle with access to behavioral health care services by making behavioral health education more palatable to youth and accessible to communities that lack robust telecommunications infrastructure. The research activities seek to: (i) identify the behavioral health concerns of the Hopi community; (ii) ideate the design of a SUNRISE (Sustainable Resilience for Social and Emotional Health) app; and (iii) characterize the telecommunications infrastructure available to the community. The study leverages and combines several approaches that have been demonstrated to successfully bolster behavioral well-being in American Indian/Alaskan Native youth populations. Strengthening social and emotional resiliency skills in tribal communities is a critical first step in addressing other pernicious economic, educational, and physical health inequities experienced by these communities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.