Research

• The HONOR Project is a study that takes a look at the impact of historical trauma, discrimination, and other stressors on the health and wellness of Native Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Two-Spirited men and women
• The HONOR Project Supplement is a study on how past and current life experiences affect the health behaviors and wellness of Native American men and women living with HIV and AIDS. The Honor Project Supplement includes Native people who are living with HIV and AIDS regardless of sexual orientation.
• The Building on Strengths (BOS) project is an initiative to recruit and educate BASW MSW social students of Native American heritage who are committed to careers in public Indian child welfare.
• The Healthy Hearts Across Generations is a 5 year development project in collaboration with the Tulalip Tribes to design and test a culturally appropriate, feasible and generalizable cardiovascular disease prevention program with American Indians living in the Northwest.
• Documenting the Success and Challenges of the Navajo Nation Institutional Review Board. Dr. Bonnie Duran is a Co-PI on a collaboration between NCMHD/NIGMS/IHS. The goal of this research project is: To collect qualitative data from the Navajo Nation Institutional Review Board, as the premier community controlled research process in the U.S., to probe more in-depth CBPR processes, models, and outcomes.
• Adapting the “Listening to Each Other” Substance Abuse Intervention for Jemez Pueblo and Ramah Navajo: Integrating an Evidence Based Intervention with Community and Culturally Supported Practices and Values (Wallerstein, PI) The aims of this research are to (1) Develop family-oriented alcohol and other drug prevention programs for youth and their families based Navajo and Pueblo culture. (2) Pilot the culturally specific prevention programs (3): Develop the manuals and materials for the intervention, with an additional funding strategy for full implementation of a randomized preventive trial (4) Assess the added effects/impacts of CBPR: a) on program development, implementation and intervention research outcomes; b) on long term sustainability of prevention programs; and c) on the value of cultural programming as a core prevention strategy within tribes.