The Weaving Healthy Families Program

Summary

Alcohol and other drug (AOD) abuse and violence in families are co-occurring risk factors that drive health disparities and mortality among Native Americans (NA), making the long-term goal of this research is to promote health and wellness, while preventing and reducing AOD abuse and violence in NA families by testing an efficacious, sustainable, culturally-relevant and family-centered intervention for cross-national dissemination. The central hypothesis is that the sustainable and community-based Weaving Healthy Families program, will reduce and postpone AOD use among NA adults and youth, decrease and prevent violence in families, and promote resilience and wellness (including mental health) among NA adults and youth. The expected outcomes of the proposed research are an efficacious, culturally relevant, and sustainable community based program to promote health and wellness that will address the factors that drive health disparities and promote individual, family, and community resilience.

Conditions

• Alcohol Abuse
• Drug Use
• Violence, Domestic
• Child Abuse
• Diet Modification
• Health Behavior
• Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
• Relationship, Family
• Relation, Parent-Child
• Emotional Stress

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Weaving Healthy Families Program

The Weaving Healthy Families program is created from integrating the widely disseminated, ecological, innovative, and culturally grounded Framework of Historical Oppression, Resilience, and Transcendence (FHORT) with the the Celebrating Families! evidenced-based program (EBP). The goal of this program is to reduce and postpone Alcohol and other Drug (AOD) use, decrease and prevent violence in families, and promote resilience and wellness (including mental health) among NA adults and youth. This intervention seeks to promote wellness by targeting key behavioral (AOD), mental/emotional (emotional regulation/anger management, cognitions, resilience), social and familial (healthy and safe relationships, the family environment, and parenting), cultural (values, traditions), and physical (nutrition) factors.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

  collaborator NIH

• Tulane University

  lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

DOUBLE

Model

CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age

5 Years

Max Age

120 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2020-08-30

Primary Completion

2025-05-01

Completion

2025-10-01

Countries

• United States

Study Locations