A5018261516- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Resilience and Mental Health
- SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Respiratory viral infections research
- Community Health and Development
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
- Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
Johns Hopkins University
2022-2025
Navajo Nation Division of Health
2023
National Institutes of Health
2023
Introduction Indigenous connectedness is an impetus for health, well-being, self-confidence, cultural preservation, and communal thriving. When this disrupted, the beliefs, values, ways of life that weave communities together threatened. In Spring 2020, COVID-19 virus crept into Tribal Nations across United States exacerbated significant health-related educational inequities. The first case COVID-19, or Dikos Ntsaaígíí-19 in Diné (Navajo) language, arrived Southwest March 2020. quickly...
Abstract Background This paper describes the protocol for a longitudinal cohort study, “Project SafeSchools” (PSS), which focuses on measuring effects of COVID-19 and return to in-person learning Diné (Navajo) White Mountain Apache (Apache) youth, parents, educators. The early surges pandemic led closure most reservation border town schools serving communities. study aims to: (1) understand barriers facilitators school re-opening attendance from perspective multiple stakeholders in...
In April 2021, the US government made substantial investments in students' safe return to school by providing resources for school-based coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mitigation strategies, including COVID-19 diagnostic testing. However, testing uptake and access among vulnerable children with medical complexities remained unclear.
Withdrawal: ‘Baseline Sociodemographic Characteristics and Mental Health Status of Primary Caregivers Children Attending Schools on the Navajo Nation White Mountain Apache Tribe During COVID‐19’ by Shannon Archuleta MPH, Joshuaa D. Allison‐Burbank PhD, Allison Ingalls Renae Begay Ryan Grass BS, Francene Larzelere Vanessa Begaye Lacey Howe Alicia Tsosie Angelina Phoebe Keryte BA, Emily E. Haroz J Sch 2024, 10.1111/josh.13419. The above article, published online 15 January 2024 in Wiley Online...
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Despite historical and contemporary trauma, American Indian Alaska Native (AIAN; Indigenous) communities responded with resilience to the COVID‐19 pandemic. However, AIANs experienced disproportionate rates of infection, hospitalization, death, reduced life expectancy. School closures exacerbated disparities, leading learning loss, economic instability, mental health challenges among AIAN youth. METHODS The Project SafeSchools cohort study employed a comprehensive...
This study aimed to understand facilitators and barriers returning in-person learning for youth, caregivers, school staff from three communities in the Navajo Nation White Mountain Apache Tribe following 2020 COVID-19-driven closures. A safe rapid return through effective acceptable COVID-19 mitigation strategies was vital students’ social scholastic development resilience of families. We interviewed ( n = 36), caregivers youth ages 4 16 28), 11 25 four regarding safety measures, reopening,...
Context: American Indian communities have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, with school closures exacerbating health and education disparities. Program: Project SafeSchools' school-based testing program utilized federal state funding to provide weekly pooled follow-up rapid antigen students staff from White Mountain Apache Tribe Navajo Nation. Implementation: The project provided partner schools training continual logistical technical support aid in adherence local...