Abstract
The broad goals of the community-based participatory research (CBPR) include community engagement, capacity building, developing practical solutions for community concerns and knowledge building. This article describes the data generation and sharing process as it relates to the goals of CBPR and health promotion in an American Indian/Alaska Native communities. The project described herein, “Investigating Inupiaq Cultural Resilience: A Pilot Study, “ achieved these goals in a tribal context by fostering intergenerational dialogue through data collection. The intergenerational exchange served to collect data for a community-based participatory study and provide an opportunity for communication between Elders, adults and youth. By providing an arena for intergenerational sharing, the format encouraged cross-age connections and in doing so, supported, in a broad sense, the transmission of cultural knowledge. The article describes the process and articulates the ways it supports the CBPR goals of engagement, practical relevance, knowledge generation and health promotion.
Highlights
This paper describes a community-based participatory research (CBPR) process that begins to do this through participatory data collection, and contributes to the research priority of knowledge generation and to a community priority of culturally-based, health promotion
A regional suicide prevention taskforce with over 30 members provided guidance for the study, overseeing data collection efforts and collaboratively analyzing narrative data. This previous work led to a deeper understanding of the effects of rapid social change on young people’s lives (Wexler, 2006; Wexler, 2009a; Wexler, 2009b; Wexler, DiFulvio, & Burke, 2009) and of the discrepancies in meaning about suicide and prevention found between youth and adults (Wexler & Goodwin, 2006)
All participants in this study identified themselves as Inupiaq, a cultural group referred to as Alaska Native (“AN” for the purpose of this article) or as indigenous people of North America
Summary
The collaboration between myself, the academic researcher, and my community and organizational partners—Maniilaq Association, Aqqaluk Trust and the Kotzebue Tribal Council—developed over the last decade and a half. A regional suicide prevention taskforce with over 30 members provided guidance for the study, overseeing data collection efforts and collaboratively analyzing narrative data This previous work led to a deeper understanding of the effects of rapid social change on young people’s lives (Wexler, 2006; Wexler, 2009a; Wexler, 2009b; Wexler, DiFulvio, & Burke, 2009) and of the discrepancies in meaning about suicide and prevention found between youth and adults (Wexler & Goodwin, 2006). It gave community members experience participating in a research project (Hill, Perkins, & Wexler, 2007). Each participant was sent his or her transcript to review before analyses were conducted
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