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

项目总结/摘要 在当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）人口继续面临 长期存在的药物滥用不平等现象。美国国立卫生研究院加大了努力， 通过投资于研究来解决这些不平等，以了解药物滥用的根本原因， 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NIH成立部落健康研究办公室，并启动干预措施。 2012年改善美国原住民健康倡议的研究。虽然正在取得进展，但 增量，减缓了许多复杂性，在研究中遇到不同的AIAN人口。的 作为土著儿童研究交流（NCRE）的一部分，研究人员非常清楚这些问题。 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于药物滥用，使他们面临以下风险： 扰乱了他们的社交、情感甚至身体发育，后来又发展出自己的物质使用。 问题我们的研究证实了这些合作伙伴告诉我们的情况。作为一个由研究人员和 社区研究合作伙伴谁一起工作，以了解AIAN儿童的发展，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， 孩子自2008年以来，NCRE为从事AIAN儿童工作的研究人员主办了会议， 青少年，使他们聚集在一起，分享研究成果，讨论最紧迫的议程， 发展科学在AIAN文化。许多NCRE成员本身直接参与实质性工作， 使用研究;其他人认识到药物滥用对儿童发展的影响。集体 该小组的专业知识将集中于解决药物滥用对AIAN儿童的影响， （1）在2020年、2021年和2022年举办NCRE会议， 儿童发展研究人员和AIAN社区合作伙伴，特别是那些致力于 药物滥用对儿童发展的影响和药物滥用的发展;（2）重点 NCRE会议的主题是药物滥用和发展，并邀请主旨发言人， 提高研究人员的能力，使最好的科学，以帮助减少物质的影响， （3）安排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，支持有效传播研究成果 向不同的利益相关者群体提供调查结果，提供建立合作关系的联网机会， 并将新调查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.