Substance Use & Mental Health Collaborative for Rural American Indian Adolescents

描述(由申请人提供)：AL人群在行为和心理健康方面继续存在显著的健康差距，并在整个生命周期中保持旺盛的持久性。在这 通过申请，华盛顿州立大学(WSU)和斯波坎印第安人部落寻求支持，以社区为基础的参与性研究方法，形成美国印第安人农村青少年药物使用和心理健康协作体。我们的合作将致力于消除国家研究和阿拉伯国家政府确定的健康差距。我们的目标是通过科学应用CBPR原则来制定与文化相关的干预战略，直接为改善美国印第安人(Al)农村社区的精神健康和减少药物滥用做出贡献。我们的项目将进行尊重的研究，通过利用几个大型的、组织良好的、现有的努力和以前的伙伴关系活动来增强和建设能力。这将通过以下方式实现：1)建立一个社区行动委员会(CAB)，由部落成员、教育代表、附近社区的药物滥用治疗专业人员和具有药物滥用和精神健康、社区健康和文化适应方面专门知识的学者组成，并创建循证干预措施；2)进行社区评估，以确定需求、优势、优先事项和社区对变革的准备情况；3)实施和评估试点干预措施(S)，该措施将针对前两个目标而制定。这项工作对于建设伙伴之间的能力至关重要，同时与我们的社区保持深刻和有意义的联系，旨在改善Al农村社区的生活质量。我们的研究人员，无论是学者、社区成员、教育工作者，还是卫生服务提供者，都全身心投入到与他们合作的社区中，他们的承诺在很大程度上有助于确保参与研究的各方之间的互惠和尊重。本申请中所述的努力预计将加强Al社区的CPBR方法，并提供针对Al青少年药物滥用和心理健康的干预措施，可在其他Al社区改编和复制。 相关性(见说明)：这项申请寻求支持，以建立一个基于社区的参与性研究伙伴关系，以帮助缩小美洲印第安人(Al)社区存在的健康差距。具体地说，这一专业间伙伴关系将进行研究，以解决Al青少年在心理健康和物质使用障碍领域的现有健康差距。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Al populations continue to suffer significant health disparities in behavioral and mental health with vigorous persistence across the life span. In this application, Washington State University (WSU) and the Spokane Tribe of Indians seek support to apply a community based participatory research approach to form a Substance Use and Mental Health Collaborative for Rural American Indian Adolescents. Our Collaborative will work towards eliminating health disparity gaps identified by national studies and Al governments. Our goal is to directly contribute to improved mental health and reduced substance abuse in rural American Indian (Al) communities through scientific application of CBPR principles to develop culturally relevant intervention strategies. Our project will pursue respectful research that will empower and build capacity by capitalizing on several large, well-organized, existing efforts and prior partnership activities. This will be accomplished by 1) Establishing a community action board (CAB) consisting of tribal members, educational representatives, substance abuse treatment professionals from nearby communities and academics with expertise in substance abuse and mental health, community health, and cultural adaptation and creation of evidence based interventions; 2) Conducting community assessments to identify needs, strengths, priorities, and community readiness to change and 3) Implementing and evaluating a pilot intervention(s) which will be developed in response to the first two aims. This work is essential in building capacity between partners while having deep and meaningful ties to our communities aimed at improving quality of life for rural Al communities. Our investigators, be they academics, community members, educators, or health service providers, are fully invested in the communities with which they work, and their commitment goes a long way to ensuring reciprocity and respect among all parties involved in the research. Efforts described in this application are anticipated to enhance the CPBR approach in Al communities, as well as to provide an intervention targeting substance abuse and mental health in Al adolescents that can be adapted and replicated for other Al communities. RELEVANCE (See instructions): This application seeks support to establish a community based participatory research partnership to help close the gap in health disparities that exist in American Indian (Al) communities. Specifically, this inter-professional partnership will conduct research to address existing health disparities in the areas of mental health and substance use disorders among Al adolescents.