Citation

Gray JS, Schrader L, Isaacs DS, Smith MK, Bender NM. Am. Indian Alsk. Native Ment. Health Res. 2019; 26(2): 151-171.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research)

DOI

10.5820/aian.2602.2019.151

PMID

31550383

Abstract

This article examines what gives American Indian youth hope. The project included 56 rural tribal youth in focus groups across a Northern Plains reservation. The participants completed a Youth Personal Balance Tool to provide perspective on the balance according to a medicine wheel model of their lives. The focus groups asked questions from a strengths-based perspective about what gives them hope and how they could show others they were hopeful. The project culminated with the youth developing creative representations of hope and presenting these projects to family and community.

Language: en