People Awakening: Collaborative Research to Develop Cultural Strategies for Prevention in Community Intervention

Allen, James; Mohatt, Gerald V.; Beehler, Sarah; Rowe, Hillary L.

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“…Other models of collaboration appeared as examples of convergence. Three studies included Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) [31][32][33] as a model for collaboration, one study described Practice-Oriented Research (POR), 34 and one study looked at the Collective Impact model. 35 The articles reviewed enable a comprehensive understanding of applied convergence, its facilitating elements, and the challenges faced during implementation of programs, in which multiple partners and sectors were engaged.…”

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“…18,32 The analysis of a cross-sector collaboration using models of community mobilization for large-scale social change (Collective Impact 47,48 Developing a nonexploitive relationship with community members based on trust and cultural understanding is a precept to community engagement and mobilization. 31,49 In light of the multitude of organizational barriers to convergence evident in our review, organizational innovation is a significant means of attaining successful convergence. From coordinating the multiple partners and incorporating their needs and interests, program implementation, hiring, and retaining staff (in an area where staff turnover is high) to navigating the logistical and communication challenges of disparate infrastructure and administrative operations, this is a territory that needs considerable business process expertise, management prowess, and leadership skills.…”

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“…38 Such codevelopmental collaboration, especially by community representation and coalitions, is attested by numerous other studies. 21,30,31 Farrington et al 30 describe a large evaluation of the WHO European Healthy Cities Network during its fifth phase (2009-2013), which focused on the prevention of four behavioral risk factors: tobacco use, alcohol abuse, unhealthy diet, and physical inactivity. The evaluation identified multisector collaboration and partnership as a facilitator of prevention program success.…”

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“…34,46 Numerous studies mention community mobilization as a means to empower communities to impact social and health issues as well as an outcome of multisector collaboration. [30][31][32][33]35,36,44,45 It is a key enabler of convergent innovation especially in a technologically-savvy world where Internet and mobile connectivity facilitate better and quicker organization of communities. 18 Communities are best aware of their needs as well as their strengths, and once engaged, resourced, and mobilized, they can become an impetus for sustained convergent innovation and impact.…”

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“…Allen et al 31 • Consider extreme diversity of cultural groups within American Indian/Alaska Natives populations.…”

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Convergence as public health innovation: a case for tobacco control

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Abstract:The tobacco epidemic remains a significant global public health crisis, killing six million people a year. In the US, tobacco use remains the leading cause of preventable death, despite decades of antismoking efforts. Evidence-based tobacco control policies and programs are not consistently or optimally implemented across states and regions, thereby weakening their effectiveness. Moreover, wide disparities persist in tobacco use and tobacco-related diseases among the most socioeconomically vulnerable groups in society. Innovative tobacco control approaches are sorely needed to address these gaps in tobacco control by consolidating and harmonizing siloed and fragmented tobacco control practices. The present review gleans important insights on the nature and potential of this convergence and its applications in public health innovations. The evidence provides important guidance for formulating and implementing strategies for convergence in innovation. The DC Metro Tobacco Research and Instruction Consortium (MeTRIC) provides a case example -describing real-world insights from the authors' experience in implementing convergent innovation. With its two definitive principles in which, 1) public health and development go hand in hand, and 2) a focus on improving the status of the underserved, the concept of convergence leans on innovation to address specific needs of the community. In the multidisciplinary realm of tobacco control, the role of convergent innovation in addressing gaps resistant to current efforts is imperative and required.

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Teaching Tradition: Diverse Perspectives on the Pilot Urban American Indian Traditional Spirituality Program

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Dominic³

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Many urban American Indian community members lack access to knowledgeable participation in indigenous spiritual practices. And yet, these sacred traditional activities remain vitally important to their reservation-based kin. In response, our research team partnered with an urban American Indian health center in Detroit for purposes of developing a structured program to facilitate more ready access to participation in indigenous spiritual knowledge and practices centered on the sweat lodge ceremony. Following years of preparation and consultation, we implemented a pilot version of the Urban American Indian Traditional Spirituality Program in the spring of 2016 for 10 urban AI community participants. Drawing on six first-person accounts about this program, we reflect on its success as a function of participant meaningfulness, staff support, mitigated sensitivities, and program structure. We believe that these observations will enable other community psychologists to undertake similar program development in service to innovative and beneficial impacts on behalf of their community partners.

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With a Spirit that Understands: Reflections on a Long‐term Community Science Initiative to End Suicide in Alaska

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Highlights• Long-term CBPR requires preparation and resolution of crises when we lose key partners over time.• Relational cycles are a natural part of a CBPR process and impact upon the research in keys ways.• Long-term community-based participatory research allows the spirit to come into the science.Abstract This retrospective analysis of a long-term community-based participatory research (CBPR) process spans over two decades of work with Alaska Native communities. A call to action from Alaska Native leadership to create more effective strategies to prevent and treat youth suicide and alcohol misuse risk initiated a response from university researchers. This CBPR process transformed into a collaborative effort to indigenously drive and develop solutions through research. The People Awakening project started our team on this translational and transformational pathway through community intervention science in the Central Yup'ik region of Alaska. We examine more deeply the major episodes and their successes and struggles in maintaining a long-term research relationship between university researchers and members of Yup'ik Alaska Native communities. We explore ways that our CBPR relationship has involved negotiation and engagement with power and praxis, to deepen and focus attention to knowledge systems and relational elements. This paper examines these deeper, transformative elements of our CBPR relationship that spans histories, cultures, and systems. Our discussion shares vignettes from academic and community perspectives to describe process in a unique collaboration, reaching to sometimes touch upon rare ground in emotions, tensions, and triumphs over the course of a dozen grants and twice as many years. We conclude by noting how there are points where, in a long-term CBPR relationship, transition out of emergence into coalescing and transformation can occur.Keywords American Indian and Alaska Native Community-based participatory research indigenous intervention science indigenous knowledge ✉ Stacy M. Rasmus

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People Awakening: Collaborative Research to Develop Cultural Strategies for Prevention in Community Intervention

Cited by 64 publications

References 51 publications

Convergence as public health innovation: a case for tobacco control

Convergence as public health innovation: a case for tobacco control

Teaching Tradition: Diverse Perspectives on the Pilot Urban American Indian Traditional Spirituality Program

With a Spirit that Understands: Reflections on a Long‐term Community Science Initiative to End Suicide in Alaska

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