TY - JOUR
T1 - Healthy Native Youth
T2 - Improving access to effective, culturally-relevant sexual health curricula
AU - Rushing, Stephanie Craig
AU - Stephens, David
AU - Shegog, Ross
AU - Torres, Jennifer
AU - Gorman, Gwenda
AU - Jessen, Cornelia
AU - Gaston, Amanda
AU - Williamson, Jennifer
AU - Tingey, Lauren
AU - Lee, Crystal
AU - Apostolou, Andria
AU - Kaufman, Carol
AU - Markham, Christine Margaret
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Craig Rushing, Stephens, Shegog, Torres, Gorman, Jessen, Gaston, Williamson, Tingey, Lee, Apostolou, Kaufman and Markham.
PY - 2018/8/17
Y1 - 2018/8/17
N2 - Tribal health educators across the United States have found it challenging to locate engaging, culturally-relevant sexual health curricula for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth. Healthy Native Youth is a new online resource that provides a "one-stop-shop" for tribal health advocates to access age-appropriate curricula. The site was designed by a team of advisers representing a diverse group of tribal communities, using a collaborative planning process. The website content and navigation was then refined through usability testing with the target audience. The portal allows users to filter and compare curricula on multiple dimensions, including: age, delivery setting, duration, cost, and evidence of effectiveness, to determine best-fit. It includes all materials needed for implementation free-of-charge, including: facilitator training tools, lesson plans, materials to support participant marketing and recruitment, information about each program's cultural relevance, evaluation methods and findings, and references to publications and reports. The website currently includes mCircle of Life, Native It's Your Game, Native STAND, Native VOICES, and Safe in the Village, among others. Since its launch in August 2016, the site has had over 31,000 page views in all 50 States. The Healthy Native Youth portal provides educators in rural communities a promising new tool to support the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based health curricula in geographically-disbursed AI/AN communities. Lessons learned during the design and dissemination of the Healthy Native Youth website may be of value to other Indigenous populations interested in our approach and our findings.
AB - Tribal health educators across the United States have found it challenging to locate engaging, culturally-relevant sexual health curricula for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth. Healthy Native Youth is a new online resource that provides a "one-stop-shop" for tribal health advocates to access age-appropriate curricula. The site was designed by a team of advisers representing a diverse group of tribal communities, using a collaborative planning process. The website content and navigation was then refined through usability testing with the target audience. The portal allows users to filter and compare curricula on multiple dimensions, including: age, delivery setting, duration, cost, and evidence of effectiveness, to determine best-fit. It includes all materials needed for implementation free-of-charge, including: facilitator training tools, lesson plans, materials to support participant marketing and recruitment, information about each program's cultural relevance, evaluation methods and findings, and references to publications and reports. The website currently includes mCircle of Life, Native It's Your Game, Native STAND, Native VOICES, and Safe in the Village, among others. Since its launch in August 2016, the site has had over 31,000 page views in all 50 States. The Healthy Native Youth portal provides educators in rural communities a promising new tool to support the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based health curricula in geographically-disbursed AI/AN communities. Lessons learned during the design and dissemination of the Healthy Native Youth website may be of value to other Indigenous populations interested in our approach and our findings.
KW - Adolescent
KW - American Indian and Alaska Native
KW - Curriculum
KW - Dissemination and implementation research
KW - Interventions
KW - Sexual health promotion
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U2 - 10.3389/fpubh.2018.00225
DO - 10.3389/fpubh.2018.00225
M3 - Article
C2 - 30175091
AN - SCOPUS:85052874223
SN - 2296-2565
VL - 6
JO - Frontiers in Public Health
JF - Frontiers in Public Health
IS - AUG
M1 - 225
ER -