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- Title
RezRIDERS: A Tribally-Driven, Extreme Sport Intervention & Outcomes.
- Authors
Tosa, Janice; Tafoya, Greg; Sando, Sherwin; Sando, Estevan; Yepa, Kaitlyn; Wiley, James; Wallerstein, Nina; Lucero, Julie
- 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 quasiexperimental 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 youthidentified 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.
- Subjects
EXTREME sports; SPORTS for youth; SUBSTANCE abuse prevention
- Publication
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, 2018, Vol 7, Issue 1, p20
- ISSN
2164-9170
- Publication type
Article