With a Spirit that Understands: Reflections on a Long‐term Community Science Initiative to End Suicide in Alaska
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...
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crwiley:10.1002/ajcp.12356 2024-06-02T08:15:54+00:00 With a Spirit that Understands: Reflections on a Long‐term Community Science Initiative to End Suicide in Alaska Rasmus, Stacy M. Charles, Billy John, Simeon Allen, James National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12356 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fajcp.12356 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ajcp.12356 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/ajcp.12356 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor American Journal of Community Psychology volume 64, issue 1-2, page 34-45 ISSN 0091-0562 1573-2770 journal-article 2019 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12356 2024-05-03T10:46:54Z 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper Yup'ik Alaska Wiley Online Library American Journal of Community Psychology 64 1-2 34 45 |
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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. |
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Rasmus, Stacy M. Charles, Billy John, Simeon Allen, James With a Spirit that Understands: Reflections on a Long‐term Community Science Initiative to End Suicide in Alaska |
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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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With a Spirit that Understands: Reflections on a Long‐term Community Science Initiative to End Suicide in Alaska |
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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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