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ACYRN

ACYRN. A boriginal C ommunity Y outh R esilience N etwork Dawn Caldwell CIETcanada. ACYRN MEMBERS. How ACYRN came about. ACYRN IS A RESEARCH NETWORK. • it unites communities and researchers in a long term relationship (5 years)

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ACYRN

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  1. ACYRN AboriginalCommunityYouthResilienceNetwork Dawn Caldwell CIETcanada

  2. ACYRN MEMBERS

  3. How ACYRN came about

  4. ACYRN IS A RESEARCH NETWORK • it unites communities and researchers in a long term relationship (5 years) • it supports greater and broader capacity building because of this long term relationship • it allows us (communities and researchers) to fine tune our research processes and future collaborations

  5. ACYRN has three aims • Produce scientifically sound research • Build community capacity to do research • Build community capacity to use the research results

  6. ACYRN focuses on • youth resiliency to suicide • primary or “upstream” interventions • that prevent youth from ever reaching the point of attempting suicide

  7. The ACYRN questionnaire • Was self administered in group settings • Contained 102 questions • Four scales to determine • Levels of personal support • Self esteem • Distress levels • Sense of mastery or control

  8. We asked youth about • Substance abuse (alcohol and drugs) • Exposure to violence (victim /perpetrator) • Relationship with parents (monitoring, support, feeling cared for) • Self esteem, sense of mastery, distress levels • Cultural and community ties • Feeling safe in and outside their community • Suicide related behaviors

  9. How we examined youth resilience to suicide • We identified the youth at risk of suicide and youth resilient to suicide. • We identified characteristics that made these two groups different • We looked at interventions that would make the at risk youth more like the resilient youth (strengthen the resiliency factors that protect against suicide among the at risk)

  10. ACYRN focuses on actionable factors • Things that are related to suicide risk • Things that can be changed, improved or decreased 3. Things that are doable at a community level

  11. Feeling parents care as an actionable factor • Protects against suicide (AF 1) • Can be increased among youth by working with parents(AF 2) • Can be changed with community resources? (Start by looking at how the community currently supports parents)(AF 3)

  12. Community based researcher training Questionnaire design (ACYRN 2) Data collection - self administered questionnaires were completed in group settings Data entry -Double data entry was completed using EPI info version 6. Data sets were compared to eliminate keying errors. Preliminary analysis • Basic frequencies, associations, OR’s and Confidence intervals.

  13. Future training for CBRs • More in depth discussions about ethics • Exposure to more in depth analysis methods • Proposal writing/project design

  14. Lessons learned • Funding gap and its impact on relationship building • Research agenda versus real life. • The role of the Community Based Researcher in programme development/knowledge to action • Protecting the confidentiality of participants • Duty to report • Small data sets

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