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. 2018;7(1):20-41.

RezRIDERS: A Tribally-Driven, Extreme Sport Intervention & Outcomes

Janice Tosa  1 , Greg Tafoya  2 , Sherwin Sando  3 , Estevan Sando  3 , Kaitlyn Yepa  3 , James Wiley  4 , Nina Wallerstein  5 , Julie Lucero  6
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RezRIDERS: A Tribally-Driven, Extreme Sport Intervention & Outcomes

Janice Tosa et al. J Indig Soc Dev. 2018.

Abstract

Reducing Risk through Interpersonal Development, Empowerment, Resiliency, and Self-Determination (RezRIDERS) is a tribally-driven youth empowerment program designed to deter substance abuse and depression symptomology among high-risk American Indian youth while increasing hope/optimism, self-efficacy, and pro-social bonding. The quasi-experimental intervention took place between 2012-2015 in the Pueblo of Jemez (New Mexico, USA). The community-based program served fifty-five total youth. RezRIDERS has four major curricular components: 1) Extreme Sport activity clusters paired with; 2) Indigenized behavioral-cognitive lessons; 3) Tribal Research Team providing program oversight and cultural mentoring; and 4) Community action projects addressing youth-identified community issues. This unique program is a modern version of challenge and journeying that Indigenous people historically experienced as norms. Using qualitative and quantitative data, intervention pilot-testing assessed feasibility and efficacy of the program.

Keywords: Cultural Mentors; Extreme Sport; Tribal Research Team; Tribal Youth; Tribally-Driven Research.

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