Journal Article

Entrepreneurship education: A strength-based approach to substance use and suicide prevention for American Indian adolescents

Tingey

2016

Overview

American Indian (AI) adolescents suffer the largest disparities in substance use and suicide. Predominating prevention models focus primarily on risk and utilize deficit-based approaches. The fields of substance use and suicide prevention research urge for positive youth development frameworks that are strength based and target change at individual and community levels. Entrepreneurship education is an innovative approach that reflects the gap in available programs. This paper describes the development and evaluation of a youth entrepreneurship education program in partnership with one AI community. We detail the curriculum, process evaluation results, and the randomized controlled trial evaluating its efficacy for increasing protective factors. Lessons learned may be applicable to other AI communities.

• Publisher: UCHSC
• Subject: Adolescent / Adolescent Behavior - ethnology / Adolescents / Adults / Alaska Natives / Attendance / Business plans / Capacity Building / Caring / Community Relations / Community Resources / Curriculum / Education - methods / Entrepreneurs / Entrepreneurship / Family Income / Formative Evaluation / Humans / Indians, North American - ethnology / Marital Status / Mental Health Programs / Partnerships in Education / Poverty / Prosocial Behavior / Randomized Controlled Trials / Secondary school students / Self Efficacy / Social Capital / Socioeconomic factors / Substance-Related Disorders - ethnology / Substance-Related Disorders - prevention & control / Suicide / Suicide - ethnology / Suicide - prevention & control / Suicides & suicide attempts / Teaching Methods / Teenagers / Tribes / Unemployment