A crosscutting community intervention developed as an evidence-based practice is PC CARES: Promoting Community Conversations About Research for Effective Solutions, which prevents suicide and harms of substance use, and has been implemented in dozens of Indigenous and rural communities and schools.
This project includes:
- PC CARES – Alaska in Partnership with the Rural Human Services Program – IRINAH & IPC
- PC CARES – Michigan
- PC CARES – NCREW Yakama Nation, WA
- PC CARES – U-M
- PC CARES – ASU (At Risk Substance Use) – State of Alaska
Before PC CARES, I [thought of] preventing risky substance use as a difficult task, and saw as being out of my scope of work/outside of my capacity as an individual. Some of what I have learned in PC CARES is that anyone can play a role in preventing or reducing substance use. Since learning in PC CARES, I now think/feel preventing risky substance use can be done by doing little things that can lead to positive outcomes or help to educate or even just simply help others struggling with substance use. – Design Lab participant
Project website: pc-cares.org
Investigators: Lisa Wexler, Elizabeth Evans, Lauren White (UW)
Funding: NIH