Projects
Family Preservation
The objective of this project is for NIWHRC to partner with three Native American communities to train local community members to deliver “WellSpeak – Building Intergenerational Communications about Healthy Sexuality” curriculum in three communities and promote awareness in the three communities on the importance of communication between youth and adults on healthy sexuality education.
The three communities that NIWHRC has partnerships with to deliver the “WellSpeak” curriculum are:
- Native American Youth and Family Center, Portland, OR
- Indigenous Peoples Task Force, Minneapolis, MN
- American Indian Child Resource Center, Oakland, CA
Females and males ages 12-18 will be brought together with their parents/caregiver at each of the partnering communities for 16 hours of interactive activities such as role-playing, brainstorming, skill-building activities, and small group discussion to provide youth education on healthy sexuality that will result in youth and parents learning together the value of healthy relationships and marriages.
Straight Talk on Preventing HIV
The goal of this project is to develop a cross-generational HIV/AIDS comprehensive prevention education(including physical health, emotional health, and sexual health) approach specific to women at risk for or living with HIV/AIDS and other female members of the family 12 + years old, such as are grandmothers, mothers, daughters, granddaughters, and aunts where there is a high population of American Indian and Alaska Natives. The project focuses on health communication patterns that build on trusting familial relationships and incorporate gender-focused, age-specific, culturally competent, and linguistically appropriate HIV/AIDS prevention information.