Center for Alaska Native Health Research, Institute for Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA.
Department of Family Medicine and Biobehavioral Health, Memory Keepers Medical Discovery Team, American Indian and Rural Health Equity, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth, MN, USA.
Am J Community Psychol. 2019 Sep;64(1-2):34-45. doi: 10.1002/ajcp.12356. Epub 2019 Jul 25.
This retrospective analysis of a long-term community-based participatory research (CBPR) process spans over two decades of work with Alaska Native communities. A call to action from Alaska Native leadership to create more effective strategies to prevent and treat youth suicide and alcohol misuse risk initiated a response from university researchers. This CBPR process transformed into a collaborative effort to indigenously drive and develop solutions through research. The People Awakening project started our team on this translational and transformational pathway through community intervention science in the Central Yup'ik region of Alaska. We examine more deeply the major episodes and their successes and struggles in maintaining a long-term research relationship between university researchers and members of Yup'ik Alaska Native communities. We explore ways that our CBPR relationship has involved negotiation and engagement with power and praxis, to deepen and focus attention to knowledge systems and relational elements. This paper examines these deeper, transformative elements of our CBPR relationship that spans histories, cultures, and systems. Our discussion shares vignettes from academic and community perspectives to describe process in a unique collaboration, reaching to sometimes touch upon rare ground in emotions, tensions, and triumphs over the course of a dozen grants and twice as many years. We conclude by noting how there are points where, in a long-term CBPR relationship, transition out of emergence into coalescing and transformation can occur.
本回顾性分析是一项长期的社区参与式研究（CBPR）过程的一部分，该过程跨越了与阿拉斯加原住民社区合作的二十年。阿拉斯加原住民领导层呼吁采取更有效的策略来预防和治疗青年自杀和酗酒风险，这促使大学研究人员做出了回应。这一 CBPR 过程转变为通过研究自主推动和制定解决方案的合作努力。“人民觉醒”项目使我们的团队通过阿拉斯加中尤皮克地区的社区干预科学走上了这一转化和变革的道路。我们更深入地研究了在与阿拉斯加尤皮克原住民社区的大学研究人员之间保持长期研究关系的过程中发生的重大事件及其成功与困难。我们探讨了我们的 CBPR 关系如何通过与权力和实践的协商和参与来深化和关注知识体系和关系要素。本文探讨了跨越历史、文化和系统的我们的 CBPR 关系的这些更深层次、变革性的要素。我们的讨论从学术和社区的角度分享了一些小插曲，以描述在独特合作中的过程，有时会触及到情绪、紧张和十多项资助和两倍以上的时间里取得的胜利中罕见的领域。最后，我们注意到在长期的 CBPR 关系中，从出现到凝聚和转型的过渡点。
