Programs

Emergency Department Screen for Teens at Risk of Suicide

Importance of Emergency Departments in Reaching Youth At-Risk for Suicide Approximately 1/3 of all adolescents visit emergency departments each year. Annual visits for suicide attempts and nonsuicidal self-injury more than doubled from 1993-1996 and 2005-2008, especially for 15-19 year olds. In a related study, a high proportion of adolescents with non-psychiatric complaints who screened positive

Focus Area: Mental Health PromotionSuicide PreventionYouth Development

Healing Pathways (Anishinaabe Giigewin Miikana)

The Healing Pathways Project is a community-based participatory research study involving 735 American Indian and First Nations youth and their caregivers living in the northern Midwestern United States and Ontario, Canada. The project began in 2002 with collaborations between eight reservation and reserve communities and our university-based research team. As of 2021, we have completed

Focus Area: Mental Health PromotionSubstance Use & PreventionYouth Development

Associated Location(s): Duluth, MN

Indigenae Podcast

Indigenae is a community-guided podcast that is dedicated to Indigenous wxmen’s health and wellbeing. Join hosts Sarah Stern (Cherokee), Olivia Trujillo (Navajo) and Dr. Sophie Neuner (Karuk) as they interview a new guest each week and take listeners on a journey through Indigenous womanhood, exploring topics from Coming of Age to Becoming an Elder. The

Focus Area: Cancer Care & PreventionEnvironmental HealthParentingSexual & Reproductive HealthYouth Development

Mother Daughter Program

We are working with long-time tribal partners, the Navajo Nation and the White Mountain Apache tribe to develop, pilot and evaluate a program to promote girls’ empowerment, health and intergenerational well-being for Indigenous peoples. Engaging Navajo and Apache girls and their mothers or primary female caregivers, the Mother Daughter program will harness matrilineal cultural assets

Focus Area: ParentingYouth Development

Associated Location(s): Chinle, AZNavajo NationTuba City, AZWhite Mountain ApacheWhiteriver, AZ

Multi-tiered Youth Suicide Prevention Program

We launched a three-tiered suicide prevention intervention in 2006 across the White Mountain Apache Tribe under a program called Empowering Our Spirits. These tiers include: a universal tier targeting the general community in an effort to raise education and awareness on the problem of suicide; a selective tier targeting youth specifically at risk for suicide

Focus Area: Mental Health PromotionSuicide PreventionYouth Development

Associated Location(s): White Mountain ApacheWhiteriver, AZ

NativeVision

NativeVision is an innovative youth development initiative operated by the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health. The program’s mission is to empower Native American youth to realize their full (physical, mental, emotional and spiritual) potential through the promotion of physical fitness, healthy nutrition, and positive life skills.                    

Focus Area: Diabetes & Obesity PreventionSubstance Use & PreventionYouth Development