Document Type
Article
Keywords
Native American, trauma, violence, alcohol and other drug use, substance abuse, community- based participatory research, WHF program development, clinical trials
Disciplines
Social Work
Abstract
Family prevention programs that enhance mental health, wellness, and resilience—while simultaneously addressing violence and alcohol and other drug (AOD) abuse—among Indigenous families are scarce. This gap in culturally grounded and community-based programs creates a critical need to develop and evaluate the efficacy of such prevention programs. This article fills this gap, with the purpose of describing the structure and content of the Weaving Healthy Families (WHF) program, a culturally grounded and community-based program aimed at preventing violence and AOD use while promoting mental health, resilience, and wellness in Indigenous families. The focus then turns to how to approach this process of developing and implementing the program in a culturally grounded and community-based way.
Publication Title
Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services
Article Number
1032
Publication Date
2023
First Page
1
Last Page
17
DOI of Published Version
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10443894221146351
Language
English
Peer Reviewed
1
Recommended Citation
McLinley, Catherine E.; Lilly, Jenn M.; Liddell, Jessica L.; Knipp, Hannah; Solomon, Tamela Autumn; Comby, Nikki; Comby, Harold; Haynes, Patricia; Ferris, Kathleen; and Goldberg, Maple, "Developing the Weaving Healthy Families Program to Promote Wellness and Prevent Substance Abuse and Violence: Approach, Adaptation, and Implementation" (2023). Social Service Faculty Publications. 35.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/gss_facultypubs/35
Version
Published
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
