BCC-CCM Student and Faculty Career Development Project

该项目的最终目标是改善黑脚民族的身心健康， 通过发展可持续的黑脚社区学院中心来解决我们的健康问题 Culture as Medicine（BCC-CCM）黑脚人和其他土著人经历了严重的健康问题， 差异，而且，可以说，最有资格解决这些差异的人是本土研究人员。 然而，具有健康研究专业知识的土著调查人员非常少，可持续健康的人也很少。 由社区控制的土著社区内的研究中心。黑脚社区 已经表示，其主要健康问题之一是心理健康，它还表示希望 社区成员自己解决这个问题。因此，这一能力建设项目，题为BCC- 学生和教师的研究发展（BCC-SFRD），将提高BCC的能力，以发展 BCC-CCM将努力减轻黑脚人精神健康疾病的高发率 人口利用以前的能力建设赠款启动的工作，BCC已经开始 建立一个研究文化，导致两个科学出版物（1，2），一个学生研究实验室 能够进行生物标志物和调查分析，以及BCC教师和管理人员的强烈兴趣， 黑脚社区开发这个应用程序。目前的项目将利用进展，兴趣， 和初步数据产生的前necrosis赠款，以建立必要的人力资源， 研究中心，包括教师和学生研究人员，以及使中心 可持续让黑脚社区参与开发的各个阶段也很重要， 中心的功能。为了实现能力建设的目标，我们将完成 具体目标：1。加强BCC的研究文化，2。鼓励和授权BCC 学生追求生物医学研究事业，和3。发展可持续的BCC心理健康 BCC研究中心。以前的NIFE资金只集中在能力建设上，但有很大的影响。 在BCC的影响，定位我们发展目前的建议。因此，该提案利用并扩展了 以前的成功。我们预计，这项建议，如果资助，将有更大的影响，推动BCC， 我们的目标是提高黑脚心理健康和发展可持续的BCC-CCM。

The ultimate goal of this project is to improve the mental and physical health of the Blackfeet Nation and to address our health problems through the development of a sustainable Blackfeet Community College Center for Culture as Medicine (BCC-CCM). The Blackfeet and other Native peoples experience severe heath disparities, and, arguably, the best qualified individuals to address these disparities are Native researchers. However, there are precious few Native investigators with health research expertise and few sustainable health research centers within Native communities that are controlled by the community. The Blackfeet community has indicated that one of its primary health concerns is mental health, and it also has indicated the desire for community members to address this problem themselves. Thus, this capacity building project, entitled BCC- Student and Faculty Research Development (BCC-SFRD), will enhance the capacity of BCC to develop the BCC-CCM that will strive to mitigate the high incidence of mental health disease among the Blackfeet population. Leveraging the work initiated with a previous NARCH capacity building grant, BCC has begun to build a research culture that has resulted in two scientific publications (1,2), a student research laboratory capable of biomarker and survey analysis, and an intense interest among BCC faculty and administration and the Blackfeet community to develop this application. The present project will leverage the progress, interest, and preliminary data generated from the previous NARCH grant to build the human resources necessary for the research center, including faculty and student researchers, as well as the means to make the center sustainable. It also will be important to involve the Blackfeet community in all phases of the development and function of the proposed center. In order to attain the goal of capacity building, we will accomplish the following specific aims: 1. strengthen the research culture at BCC, 2. encourage and empower BCC students to pursue biomedical research careers, and 3. develop a sustainable BCC Mental Health Research Center at BCC. Previous NARCH funding focused only on capacity building but had significant impact at BCC, positioning us to develop the present proposal. Thus, this proposal leverages and expands previous successes. We expect that this proposal, if funded, would have even more impact, propelling BCC to our goal of enhancing Blackfeet mental health and developing a sustainable BCC-CCM.