Video Tells Story of The Healing of the Canoe

The Healing of the Canoe Project is a collaborative project between the Suquamish Tribe, the Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe and the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute (ADAI), University of Washington. The project team used the Community-Based/Tribally-Based Participatory Research (CBPR/TPR) model to work in partnership to plan, implement and evaluate culturally grounded interventions to reduce health disparities and promote health with both tribes. Suquamish and Port Gamble S'Klallam identified youth substance abuse and the need for a sense of cultural belonging and cultural revitalization among youth as primary issues of community concern.

The Healing of the Canoe partnership seeks to address these issues through a culturally grounded prevention and intervention life skills curriculum for youth that builds on the strengths and resources.

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