Creating Partnerships in Identifying Health Needs of Foster Care Indian Youth

建立伙伴关系以确定寄养印度青年的健康需求

• 批准号: 7691257
• 负责人: Bonnie L Halpern-Felsher
• 金额: $ 3.27万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-25 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7691257
• 关键词: Address; Advocacy; Aging; American Indians; California; Caring; Collaborations; Communities; Community Services; County; Data Collection; Development; Family; Focus Groups; Fostering; Fright; Goals; Health; Healthcare; Lead; Methods; Native Americans; Policies; Provider; Psyche structure; Public Health; Research; Resistance; Services; Social Work; Tribes; United States Public Health Service; Work; Youth; care systems; experience; foster care; foster child; physical conditioning; programs

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A major concern in Native American (Indian) communities is the lack of access to appropriate mental and physical health and other transitional support programs and services for Native American youth who are "aging out" of the foster care setting. This gap is due in part to a) leaders in the Indian communities having suspicion and fear of public health and scientific efforts, thereby often avoiding participating in research or accessing needed public health services; and b) non-Indian social service agencies' resistance to acknowledging and understanding the cultural differences and unique services needed for Indian youth and their families. The ultimate goal of this project is to gather and disseminate information that will encourage the Indian and non-Indian communities and service agencies to work together to develop strategies to reduce the mental and physical health burden often experienced by Indian youth transitioning out of foster care. Through focus group data collection methods with Native American community leaders, healthcare and service providers, and foster care youth, the specific aims of this project include the following: 1) to collect information about the few programs in California that have responded programmatically to the concern about Native American youth aging out of the foster care system, and to identify barriers to care that have not been addressed by current or previous programmatic efforts; 2) to increase the visibility of and urgency concerning the needs of foster youth among the Indian community and non-Indian social services agencies community; 3) to convene tribes and other organizations that can make a difference to discuss the associated problems and "best practices" and gaps that have been identified through this project. These efforts will serve to enhance relations between the Native American community and both Indian and non-Indian healthcare and service providers, as well as provide key evidence that should support and encourage further scientific explorations among the Native American community. Further, it is expected that the findings from this formative research and the collaborations and relations resulting from this project will lead to the development and implementation of culturally appropriate services, programs and policy advocacy strategies at the county and state levels that will address the needs of native American foster children.

描述（由申请人提供）：美国原住民（印度）社区的主要关注点是缺乏适当的身心健康和其他过渡性支持计划和其他过渡性支持计划和服务，以“衰老”寄养者护理环境。这一差距部分归功于a）印度社区中有怀疑和对公共卫生和科学努力的恐惧的领导人，因此通常避免参与研究或获得所需的公共卫生服务； b）非印度社会服务机构抵制印度青年及其家人所需的文化差异和独特服务。该项目的最终目的是收集和传播信息，以鼓励印度和非印度社区和服务机构共同努力，以制定策略，以减轻印度青年经常经历的精神和身体健康负担，从而从寄养护理中过渡。通过与美国原住民社区领导者，医疗保健和服务提供商以及寄养青年的焦点小组数据收集方法，该项目的具体目标包括：1）收集有关加利福尼亚州少数计划的信息，这些信息以编程方式响应了对从福特护理系统中衰老的关注，并确定未通过当前或以前的努力来解决的障碍， 2）提高印度社区和非印度社会服务机构社区寄养青年需求的知名度和紧迫性； 3）召集部落和其他组织可以有所作为，讨论通过该项目确定的相关问题和“最佳实践”和差距。这些努力将有助于加强美洲原住民社区与印度和非印度医疗保健和服务提供商之间的关系，并提供关键证据，以支持和鼓励美国原住民社区的进一步科学探索。此外，预计这项形成性研究的发现以及该项目产生的合作和关系将导致在县和州一级的文化适当服务，计划和政策倡导策略的发展和实施，以满足美国原住民寄养儿童的需求。