Family Intervention Empowerment Curriculum Development


This project seeks to co-develop, pilot, and prepare for full implementation a family intervention trial of a culturally specific alcohol and other risky behavior prevention program in partnership with the Ramah Navajo and Jemez Pueblo. This innovative program focuses on 5th and 6th grade youth, their parents, and family elders, and builds on several resources. The research design for this project is to work with local tribal research teams to identify focus groups and interviews (elders, service providers, educators, adolescents) from each tribe. the results of the focus groups and work of the local research teams will be used to adapt the curriculum which will be piloted with families from each tribe. And the results of this pilot will then be used to develop a full scale intervention in the two tribal communities.