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Advancing Health Equity for Native American Youth Workshop Summary (2016) / Chapter Skim
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4 Health and Well-Being
Pages 21-28

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... In fact, Native Americans are an extremely heterogeneous population. The state of Arizona alone has 22 federally recognized tribes, Garcia noted.
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... An important aspect of these interventions is that they build on Native cultures, thereby gaining both relevance and resonance. "What is killing Native youth today, and the sources of the greatest mortality for Native youth, are all preventable causes of disease." -- Francisco Garcia, Pima County Health Department CULTURALLY BASED INTERVENTIONS FOR THE PREVENTION OF SUBSTANCE USE AND ABUSE AMONG NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH Guided by a group of elders from the Kituwah Cherokee tribe, John Lowe, Wymer Distinguished Professor of Nursing at Florida Atlantic University, has been working on the prevention of substance use and abuse among Native American youth.
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... It is correlated with historical trauma, forced removals, boarding schools, destabilization of families, economic disadvantages, and other social, psychological, and economic stressors. As prevention researcher Fred Beauvais (1998, p.
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... "Self, for us as Cherokee Kituwah people, is everything that we are connected to by the creator." -- John Lowe, Florida Atlantic University THE JOYS AND CHALLENGES OF HELPING NATIVE YOUTH TELL THEIR STORIES ABOUT HEALTH AND WELLNESS "Native folks like to tell stories," said Susie John, a pediatrician at the Northern Navajo Medical Center Teen Life Program in Shiprock, New Mexico. "That is how they do their teachings.
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... For example, through an initiative called Project Trust, behavioral health providers interview adolescents to help work through historical traumas and other issues that arise in Native American communities. Children and adolescents do not necessarily seek out health care, which requires that John be a community worker.
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... Chacon closed with a story about how the seed to attend medical school was planted in her. When she was 5, she was reading one of the books her father brought home from the boarding school.
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... Those are the next generations." -- Gayle Dine'Chacon, UNM School of Medicine LEARNING A LANGUAGE During the discussion period, the presenters focused largely on the topic of learning a Native American language. As Chacon said, children have many ways to learn a language, including language classes, immersion schools, and even a Rosetta Stone program for Navajo.
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