Publications

Allen, J., Wexler, L., Rasmus, S. (2021). Protective Factors as a Unifying Framework for Strengths-Based Intervention and Culturally Responsive American Indian and Alaska Native Suicide Prevention. Prevention Science, 1-14.

Allen, J., Wexler, L., Apok, C. A.*, Black, J., Cueva, K., Hollingsworth, C.^, McEachern, D., Peter, E., Ullrich, J. S., Grogan-Kaylor, A., Lee, K., Fok, C. C. T., Berman, M., Rataj, S., ANCHRR Research Steering Committee, & Rasmus, S.. (2025). Indigenous Community-Level Protective Factors in the Prevention of Suicide: Enlarging a Definition of Cultural Continuity in Rural Alaska Native Communities. Prevention Science, 1-12.

Barlow, A., Haroz, E.E., O’Keefe, V.M., Brockie, T., Manson, S.M., Allen, J., Wexler, L., Buchwald, D., Rasmus, S., Goklish, N. and Ivanich, J., (2023). New collaborative research on suicide prevention, practice, and policy with American Indian and Alaska Native communities holds promise for all peoples. Health Promotion Practice, 24(5): 841-851.

Haroz, E.E., Wexler, L., Manson, S.M., Cwik, M., O’Keefe, V., Allen, J., Rasmus, S. Buchwald, D., & Barlow, A. (2021). Sustaining suicide prevention programs in American Indian and Alaska Native communities and Tribal health centers. Implementation Research and Practice, 2: 26334895211057042.

Rasmus, S., Wexler, L., White, L. A.* & Allen, J. (2024). Examining Community-Level Social Determinants of Alaska Native Suicide Risk and Protection: An Indigenous Knowledge-Informed Extension of the Legacy of Michael Chandler. Transcultural Psychiatry, 0(0) 1-18. DOI: 10.1177/13634615241255713

Rasmus, S, Wexler, L., Allen, J. (2022). Setting a Course to Protect Indigenous Cultures and Communities in our National Suicide Prevention Agenda. Invited commentary in response to the paper: Attempted Suicide in American Indian and Alaska Native Populations: A Systematic Review of Research on Protective Factors. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice: 223.

Wexler, L., Rasmus, S., Ullrich, J., Flaherty, A. A.*, Apok, C.*^, Amarok, B. Q.^, … & Allen, J. (2020). The development of a measure of Alaska Native community resilience factors through knowledge co-production. Progress in community health partnerships: research, education, and action, 14(4), 443-459.

Eglinton, K., Gubrium, A., & Wexler, L. (2016). Digital storytelling as arts-inspired for engaging, understanding, and supporting indigenous youth. International Journal of Education & the Arts, 16. Retrieved from http://www.ijea.org/v17n#/.

Rivkin, I., Black, J., Lopez, E.D.S., Filardi, E.^, Salganek, M., Newman, J.*, Haire, J.*, Nanouk, M.*, Philip, J., Charley, D.^, and Wexler, L. (2020). Integrating Mentorship and Digital Storytelling to Promote Wellness for Alaska Native Youth. Journal of American Indian Education; 59, 2&3: 169-193.

Weinronk, H.*, Wexler, L., Trout, L.*, Rowlet, K.*, Klakegg, I.*, Zhen, S.*, Valenzuela, S.*, Moses, J. (2017) New understandings of ourselves and communities: Community-based participatory research with Alaska Native and Lower 48 youth. Educational Action Research Journal, (1) 1-17. DOI: 10.1080/09650792.2017.1348958

Wexler, L. (2014). Looking across three generations of Alaska Natives to explore how culture fosters indigenous resilience. Transcultural Psychiatry, 51(1): 73 – 92.

Wexler, L., Eglinton, K., & Gubrium, A. (2014). Using digital stories to understand the lives of Alaska Native young people. Youth & Society, 46, 4: 478-504.

Wexler, L., Gubrium, A., Griffin, M.*, & Difulvio, G. (2012). Promoting positive youth development and highlighting reasons for living in northwest Alaska through digital storytelling. Health Promotion Practice, 14(4), 617-623.

Hill, R., Perkins, R., & Wexler, L. (2007). An Analysis of Hospital Visits during the 12 Months Preceding Suicide Death in Northern Alaska. Alaska Medicine, 49(1): 16-21.

Sokol, R.L., Mueller-Williams, A.*, Porter, K.*, Leys, M.*, Apala-Flaherty, A.*, Wexler, L. (2025). Developing and testing the predictive validity of household firearm storage measures: Insights from rural Alaska. Injury Prevention, 31(2), 169-173

Wexler, L., Apala Flaherty, A.*, Begum, F.*, White, L.,* Kouassi, L.*, Wisnieski, D., Davis, A.*, & Ewell Foster, C. (2023). Describing meanings and practices related to firearms, safety, and household storage in rural Alaska Native communities. Journal of Rural Mental Health, 47(1), 30–40. https://doi.org/10.1037/rmh0000207

Kirby, A., Feldman, K., Duncan-Ishcomer, B., Kripke-Ludwig, R., Joyce, A., Lee, W., Rodriguez, K., Siddeek, Z., Atisme, A., Darlington, A., Clark, W., Murthi, K., Wexler, L., Nicolaidis, C. (In press). Brief Report: Participatory Development of a Suicide Prevention Program for Autism Community Organizations. Occupational Therapy Journal of Research (DOI: 10.1177/15394492251391675/ ID: OTJR-25-0033.R2)

Wexler, L. & Graves, K. (2008). The Importance of Culturally-responsive Training for Building a Behavioral Health Workforce in Alaska Native Villages: A Case Study from Northwest Alaska. Special SAMSHA issue of the Journal of Rural Mental Health, 32(3): 22-33.

Wexler, L. ; White, L.A.*; O’Keefe, V.M.; Rasmus, S.; Haroz, E.E.; Cwik, M.F.; Barlow, A.; Goklish, N.; Elliott, E.; Pearson, C.R.; and Allen, J. (2024). Centering Community Strengths and Resisting Structural Racism to Prevent Youth Suicide: Learning from American Indian and Alaska Native Communities, Archives of Suicide Research (1)1: 1-16. DOI: 10.1080/13811118.2023.2300321

Wexler, L. & Gone, J.P. (2015). Exploring Alternatives for Indigenous Suicide Prevention: Responding to Cultural Understandings and Practices. In Jennifer White, Ian Marsh, Michael Kral & Jonathan Morris (Eds), [Suicide and] Suicide Prevention: Critical Perspectives, Cambridge University Press.

Wexler, L., White, J., & Trainor, B.^ (2015). Why an alternative to suicide prevention gatekeeper training is needed for rural Indigenous communities: presenting an empowering community storytelling approach. Critical Public Health, 25(2), 205-217.

Wexler, L. (2006). Inupiat Youth Suicide & Culture Loss: Changing Community Conversations. Social Science and Medicine, 63: 2938-2948.

Allen, J., Hopper, K., Wexler, L., Kral, M., Rasmus, S., & Nystad, K.* (2014). Mapping Resilience Pathways of Indigenous Youth in Five Circumpolar Communities. Sp.Issue Transcultural Psychiatry 51: 601-631.

Barnett, J. D., Schmidt, T. C., Trainor, B., & Wexler, L. (2020). A pilot evaluation of culture camps to increase Alaska Native youth wellness. Health Promotion Practice, 21(3), 363-371. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1524839918824078.

Salusky, I.R.*; Kral, M.; Amarok, B.^ & Wexler, L. (2021) Navigating between two the worlds of school and ‘being on the land’: Arctic Indigenous young people, structural violence, cultural continuity and selfhood, Journal of Youth Studies, 25(2): 170-192. DOI: 10.1080/13676261.2020.1858040.

Tuitt, N. R., Wexler, L. M., Kaufman, C. E., Whitesell, N. R., Rink, E., Anastario, M., … & Allen, J. (2023). Unsettling Settler Colonialism in Research: Strategies Centering Native American Experience and Expertise in Responding to Substance Misuse and Co-occurring Sexual Risk-Taking, Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancy, and Suicide Prevention Among Young People. Adversity and Resilience Science, 1-12.

Ulturgasheva, O., Rasmus, S., Wexler, L., Kral, M. J., & and CIPA Team^ (2014). Indigenous Youth Resilience and Vulnerability: Comparative Analysis of Adolescent Experiences across Five Circumpolar Communities. Special Issue Transcultural Psychiatry 51(5) 735–756.

Wexler, L. (2009). The Importance of Identity, Culture and History in the Study of Indigenous Youth Wellness. The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 2(2): 267-278.

Wexler, L., Barnett, J., Trout, L.*, & Moto, R.^ (2018). Making a difference: How Northwest Alaska is working to reduce youth suicide. Special Issue: The fight of our lives: Preventing suicide among Indigenous people. Northern Policy Affairs 5(3): http://www.northernpublicaffairs.ca

Wexler, L. & Burke, T. (2011). Cultural Identity, Bicultural Competence and Resilience: A Pilot Study of Alaska Native Students’ Experience at University. Journal of American Indian Education, 50(2): 44-64.

Wexler, L., Dam, H. T.*, Silvius, K.*, Mazziotti, J., & Bamikole, I.* (2016). Protective factors of Native youth: findings from a self-report survey in rural Alaska. Journal of Youth Studies, 19(3), 358-373.

Wexler, L., DiFluvio, G., & Burke, T. (2009). Resilience in Response to Discrimination and Hardship: Considering the Intersection of Personal and Collective Meaning-making for Indigenous and GLBT Youth. Social Science and Medicine, 69: 565-570.

Wexler, L., & Eglinton, K. (2015). Reconsidering Youth Well-Being as Fluid and Relational: A Dynamic Process at the Intersection of Their Physical and Social Geographies. Handbook of Children and Youth Studies, edited by Helen Cahill and Johanna Wyn. Springer Reference.

Wexler, L., Joule, L.^, Garoutte, J.^, Mazziotti, J., Baldwin, E*, Griffin, M*, Jernigan, K* and Hopper, K. (2014). “Being Responsible, Respectful, Trying to Keep the Tradition Alive:” Cultural Resilience and Growing Up in an Alaska Native Community. Special Issue Transcultural Psychiatry 51(5) 693–712.

Wexler, L., Moses, J., Hopper, K., Joule, L.^, & Garoutte, J.^ (2013). Central role of relatedness in Alaska Native youth resilience: Preliminary themes from one site of the Circumpolar Indigenous Pathways to Adulthood (CIPA) Study. American Journal of Community Psychology, 52(3-4): 393-405.

Ulturgasheva, O., Wexler, L., Kral, M. J., Allen, J., Mohatt, G.V., Nystad, K.*, & and CIPA Team (2011). Navigating International, Interdisciplinary, Collaborative Inquiry: Phase 1 Process in the Circumpolar Indigenous Pathways to Adulthood Project. Jn of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 4(1): 75-87.

Wexler, L., Jernigan*,K, Mazziotti, J., Baldwin, E.* Griffin, M.*, Joule, L., Garoutte, J. and CIPA (2014). Lived Challenges and Getting Through Them: Alaska Native Youth Narratives as a Way to Understand Resilience. Health Promotion Practice 15(1): 10 – 17.

Curran, T.* & Wexler, L. (2017). School-based positive youth development: A systematic review of the literature. Journal of School Health 87(1):71 -80. DOI: 10.1007/s12310-016-9203-2

Wexler, L., Poudel-Tandukar, K., Rataj, S., Trout, L., Poudel, K. C., Woods, M., & Chachamovich, E. (2017). Preliminary evaluation of a school-based youth leadership and prevention program in rural Alaska Native communities. School Mental Health, 9(2), 172-183.

Williams, D.Y.*, Wexler, L., and Mueller, A.S.. (2022). Suicide postvention in schools: What evidence supports our current national recommendations? School Social Work Journal 46(2): 23-69.