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New Collaborative Research on Suicide Prevention, Practice, and Policy With American Indian and Alaska Native Communities Holds Promise for All Peoples

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About the Course

It is well documented that American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) communities have suffered disproportionate rates of youth suicide and years of productive life lost compared to other U.S. Races. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) recently funded three regional Collaborative Hubs to carry out suicide prevention research, practice, and policy development with AIAN communities in Alaska and rural and urban areas of the Southwestern United States. The Hub partnerships are supporting a diverse array of tribally-driven studies, approaches, and policies with immediate value for increasing empirically driven public health strategies to address youth suicide. This course will discuss unique features of the cross-Hub work.

This course is based on the reading online article, New Collaborative Research on Suicide Prevention, Practice, and Policy With American Indian and Alaska Native Communities Holds Promise for All Peoples created by Allison Barlow, Ph.D., MPH, MA et al in 2023.

Publication Details

Publication Date: Health Promotion Practice 24(5): 841-851 (doi:10.1177/152483992211166300). September, 2023

Course Material Authors

Course Material Authors authored the material only, and were not involved in creating this CE course. They are identified here for your own evaluation of the relevancy of the material this course is based on.

Allison Barlow, Ph.D., MPH, MA

Dr. Barlow is the Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health. Her research interests focus on developing public health interventions with tribal communities to address behavioral and mental health disparities among Native children and families. She has published more than 80 works in peer reviewed journals.

Emily E. Haroz, Ph.D., MHS, MA

Dr. Haroz is an associate professor of mental health and international health and serves as the co-director of research at the Center for Indigenous Health and as deputy director of the Center for Suicide Prevention at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. She researches the implementation of mental health and suicide prevention programs, particularly in partnership with Indigenous communities and has had more than 100 works published in peer reviewed journals.

David M Lutkemeier

David Lutkemeier holds a BA degree in psychology, a master’s degree in developmental psychology, and a doctorate degree from the University of Cincinnati in Special Education and Psychology. He is certified as a psychologist by the Arizona Board of Psychologist Examiners, as well as holding public school superintendent certification in Arizona and California.  Dr. Lutkemeier has worked as an assistant professor at Arizona State University, a school psychologist, special education director, assistant superintendent, and superintendent in both Arizona and California.  David, working as a consultant with a national curriculum management group (CMSi) has completed over two dozen comprehensive district-wide curriculum audits in 15 states over the past 20 years and has worked as a test developer for CE Learning Systems for the past ten years.

Target Audience

This course is intended for Behavioral Health and Addictions professionals, including psychologists, social workers, counselors, marriage & family therapists, art therapists, school psychologists, psychoanalysts, music therapists, behavior analysts, school counselors, and addiction counselors. It is appropriate for all levels of knowledge.

Learning Objectives

After taking this activity, you should be able to:

  1. 1 Identify and describe how pivotal interventions, policies, and practices based on community-engaged research may inform new public health approaches to the reduction of tribal youth suicide.
  2. 2 Discuss how authentic participatory approaches based on rigorous community engagement can reverse current levels of youth suicide among AIAN populations.
  3. 3 Describe how factors identified in this study (culturally responsive services, community-based support systems, and tribal governance play a role in the promotion of multilevel prevention pathways.

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