Projects

PC CARES – Alaska in Partnership with the Rural Human Services Program – IRINAH & IPC

These projects are done in collaboration with the Rural Human Services (RHS) program at University of Alaska-Fairbanks (UAF), in which Alaska Native adults enrolled in the program are trained as PC CARES facilitators. For questions about either of these projects, contact Lisa Wexler or Lauren White.

This project includes:

Intervention Research to Improve Native American Health (IRINAH)

Intervention Research to Improve Native American Health (IRINAH)

This participatory, pragmatic efficacy-implementation trial evaluates the impact of Promoting Community Conversations About Research to End Suicide (PC CARES) on adult participants and the adults and youth they are ‘close to’, who we hypothesize will benefit from the intervention. For sustainability, the project also identifies barriers and enablers to community implementation of PC CARES in […]

Injury Prevention Center (IPC)

Injury Prevention Center (IPC)

This study examines PC CARES implementation within an existing, highly-successful academic program, the UAF Rural Human Services (RHS) certificate program that enrolls mainly AN adults from rural communities. The first aim uses community-engaged, mixed methods to systematically explore and assess key implementation factors within the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) for PC CARES implementation […]