The """"""""Healing of the Canoe"""""""" is a collaborative project between the Suquamish Tribe and the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, University of Washington. The overall goal of this collaboration is to work in partnership to plan, implement, and evaluate a community-based and culturally congruent intervention to reduce health disparities and promote health in the Suquamish Tribe, a federally recognized American Indian/Alaska Native reservation community located in the Pacific Northwest. This three-year planning project will proceed in two phases. Phase 1 will take place in Year 1 and is devoted to partnership development, conducting community needs and resources assessment, identification of health issues of concern for the Suquamish community, and identifying, planning, and adapting a community-based intervention to address the identified health issue(s). Phase 2 will take place in Years 2 and 3 and will be devoted to piloting and evaluating the intervention. A Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) methodology will be utilized, involving the community in each aspect of the planning and implementation of the intervention. In addition, a Suquamish Tribal member will serve as a Co-Investigator, and community members will serve as key personnel. Both outcome and process data will be collected to determine feasibility, applicability and to develop a model that other Community-Campus partnerships can utilize to work collaboratively to identify and reduce health disparities in ethnically, culturally, socioeconomically, and geographically diverse populations ? ?

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
Type
Resource-Related Research Projects (R24)
Project #
5R24MD001764-02
Application #
7126411
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZMD1-MR (05))
Program Officer
Stinson, Nathaniel
Project Start
2005-09-30
Project End
2008-06-30
Budget Start
2006-07-01
Budget End
2007-06-30
Support Year
2
Fiscal Year
2006
Total Cost
$504,476
Indirect Cost
Name
University of Washington
Department
Psychology
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
605799469
City
Seattle
State
WA
Country
United States
Zip Code
98195
Donovan, Dennis M; Thomas, Lisa Rey; Sigo, Robin Little Wing et al. (2015) Healing of the canoe: preliminary results of a culturally tailored intervention to prevent substance abuse and promote tribal identity for Native youth in two Pacific Northwest tribes. Am Indian Alsk Native Ment Health Res 22:42-76
Donovan, Dennis M; Hatch-Maillette, Mary A; Phares, Melissa M et al. (2015) Lessons learned for follow-up phone booster counseling calls with substance abusing emergency department patients. J Subst Abuse Treat 50:67-75
Lonczak, Heather S V; Thomas, Lisa Rey; Donovan, Dennis et al. (2013) Navigating the Tide Together: Early Collaboration between Tribal and Academic Partners in a CBPR Study. Pimatisiwin 11:395-409
Thomas, Lisa Rey; Donovan, Dennis M; Sigo, Robin L W (2010) Identifying Community Needs and Resources in a Native Community: A Research Partnership in the Pacific Northwest. Int J Ment Health Addict 8:362-373
Thomas, Lisa R; Donovan, Dennis M; Sigo, Robin L W et al. (2009) The Community Pulling Together: A Tribal Community–University Partnership Project to Reduce Substance Abuse and Promote Good Health in a Reservation Tribal Community. J Ethn Subst Abuse 8:283-300