Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University
Garrett Lee Smith Tribal
Active
2019
Maryland

The White Mountain Apache (WMAT), Navajo Nation, and Johns Hopkins (JHU) are uniquely poised to respond to Grant SM-19-006. WMAT-JHU have contributed Native American data on current evidence-based interventions, adaptions of EBIs, and new culturally grounded upstream approaches to the suicide prevention field. The current proposal, Celebrating Life, will bring back this multi-tiered prevention strategy for youth and expand it to the Shiprock area of Navajo. The proposed initiative will support community-wide education to promote protective factors and reduce risks led by local Elders and community leaders; early identification and referral of high-risk youth; and infrastructure and training for similar efforts in the Navajo Nation (Shiprock site), including an intervention with youth who attempt suicide and their families.