Project Overview
Alaska Native Collaborative Hub for Research on Resilience (ANCHRR) anchors and supports collective efforts to reduce the burden of suicide among Alaska Native (AN) youth. The hub uses scientific tools and methods to recognize and build AN strengths and protections against suicidal and other adverse behaviors through a multilevel model of youth resilience. The hub also develops and sustains tribal capacity to conduct research and use science to promote and increase wellbeing among AN youth and communities. ANCHRR builds on established tribal partnerships in the three regions of Alaska with needs for effective, culturally congruent and community-based suicide prevention. The hub will extend a successful model of AN research collaboration to include all of the tribal health regions across the state. ANCHRR is a strategy for strengthening existing research partnerships, developing new partnerships, and conducting research - thereby broadening the potential impacts