Engaging scientists and communities to address the impacts of substance abuse on American Indian and Alaska Native children and families: The Native Children's Research Exchange Annual Meetings

项目摘要/摘要 在目前的阿片类药物危机中，美国印第安人和阿拉斯加原住民(AIAN)继续面临 长期存在的严重的药物滥用不平等现象。国家卫生研究院已经加大了努力， 通过投资于研究以了解物质滥用的根本原因来解决这些不平等 这些人群和研究侧重于有效的预防和干预。其他努力包括 2015年在美国国立卫生研究院建立部落健康研究办公室，并启动干预措施 2012年改进美洲原住民健康倡议的研究。虽然正在取得进展，但他们正在 增量，由于在对不同的AIAN人群进行研究时遇到的许多复杂性，速度变慢了。这个 参加原住民儿童研究交流(NCRE)的研究人员非常清楚这些 挑战--以及解决这些挑战的迫切需要。社区合作伙伴也让我们敏锐地意识到这一点 AIAN社区的许多儿童在成长过程中暴露在药物滥用的环境中，使他们面临 扰乱了社交、情感甚至身体的发展，后来又发展了他们自己的物质使用 有问题。我们的研究证实了这些合作伙伴告诉我们的事情。作为一个研究人员和 共同努力了解AIAN儿童发展的社区研究伙伴，NCRE是 准备促进创新研究，以解决当前药物滥用危机对这些人的影响 孩子们。自2008年以来，NCRE为研究AIAN儿童和 青少年，将他们聚集在一起分享研究成果，并讨论 AIAN文化中的发展科学。许多NCRE成员本身就直接从事实质性的工作 使用研究；其他人认识到药物滥用对儿童发展的影响。集体 该小组的专门知识将侧重于解决药物滥用对AIAN儿童的影响，并 家庭，以解决三个具体目标：(1)在2020年、2021年和2022年主办NCRE会议，将 儿童发展研究人员和AIAN社区合作伙伴，特别是那些致力于 药物滥用对儿童发育和药物滥用发展的影响；(2)焦点 NCRE会议的主题是药物滥用和发展，并邀请将 提高研究人员的能力，利用现有的最好的科学来帮助减少物质的影响 对AIAN儿童和家庭的虐待；以及(3)组织NCRE会议，以促进有意义的对话 在学术研究人员和社区研究伙伴中，支持研究成果的有效传播 将调查结果提供给不同的利益相关者群体，提供建立协作关系的网络机会， 并将新的调查人员与资深导师联系起来。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT In the midst of the current opioid crisis, American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) populations continue to face longstanding significant substance abuse inequities. The National Institutes of Health has increased efforts to address these inequities through investing in research to understand the root causes of substance abuse in these populations and in studies focused on effective prevention and intervention. Additional efforts include the establishment of the Tribal Health Research Office at the NIH in 2015 and the launch of the Intervention Research to Improve Native American Health Initiative in 2012. While gains are being made, they are incremental, slowed by many complexities encountered in research with diverse AIAN populations. The researchers who are part of the Native Children's Research Exchange (NCRE) are very aware of these challenges – and of the pressing need to address them. Community partners make us keenly aware that too many children in AIAN communities are growing up exposed to substance abuse, putting them at risk for disrupted social, emotional, and even physical development and, later, for developing their own substance use problems. Our research confirms what these partners are telling us. As an organization of researchers and community research partners who work together to understand the development of AIAN children, NCRE is poised foster innovative research to address the impact of the current substance abuse crisis on these children. Since 2008, NCRE has hosted conferences for researchers working with AIAN children and adolescents, bringing them together to share research findings and discuss the most pressing agendas for developmental science in AIAN cultures. Many NCRE members are themselves directly engaged in substance use research; others recognize the implications of substance abuse on children's development. The collective expertise of this group will be focused to address the impacts of substance abuse on AIAN children and families, to address three specific aims: (1) host NCRE conferences in 2020, 2021 and 2022 to bring together child development researchers and AIAN community partners, particularly those whose efforts focus on the impact of substance abuse on children's development and the development of substance abuse; (2) focus NCRE conference themes on substance abuse and development and invite keynote speakers who will enhance the ability of researchers to bring the best science available to help reduce the impact of substance abuse on AIAN children and families; and (3) structure NCRE conferences to facilitate meaningful dialogue among academic researchers and community research partners, support effective dissemination of research findings to diverse stakeholder groups, provide networking opportunities to build collaborative relationships, and connect new investigators with senior mentors.