NIH R01 · 2025
Project Summary Interpersonal community violence (ICV; e.g., assaults, homicides, violence between groups, and threats/use of weapons) is a public health crisis among American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) peoples including youth in the U.S. Lakota youth who reside on the rural and impoverished Pine Ridge Reservation (PRR) are no exception. Despite research documenting contextual (e.g., structural racism, colonization and multiple historical traumas), risk (e.g., alcohol and drug use), and protective (e.g., cultural identity) factors for ICV among AI/AN youth, we know little about how to prevent ICV among AI/AN youth. A potentially promising approach to prevent ICV in tribal communities is…
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