Tobacco Intervention as American Indian Hope and Honor
PI - Kimberly Horn
West Virginia University
This three year multi-level participatory research project will be directed at individual youth, family, and community levels. As identified and supported by community leaders, the overall goal is to enhance the capacity of North Carolina American Indians to "promote hope and honor" among its youth: hope for a bright future and honor for their bodies, minds, and culture. Consistent with community needs, the avenue by which this will be accomplished includes reducing adolescent tobacco addiction and associated risk factors of depression, low educational attainment, and other drug use. Because smoking among American Indian youth, families, and communities continues to rise at epidemic rates, the intended impact of this project is to: 1) "ready" the community to reduce youth smoking by fostering a favorable environment for youth tobacco intervention and education; 2) empower the community to make informed and meaningful data-driven decisions about tobacco cessation and education programming needs and gaps and tobacco-related health risks; 3) provide access to effective, culturally-tailored youth cessation; 4) facilitate family education and support for youth smoking cessation; and 5) enable the community to sustain the cessation and education programs beyond the funding period via policy and practice changes. This project will also further community capacity to generate a model of university-community partnering that can be used to address other health behaviors.
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