Creating Qungasvik(A Yup'ik Intervention “Toolbox”): Case Examples from a Community‐Developed and Culturally‐Driven Intervention
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This paper describes the development of a Yup'ik Alaska Native approach to suicide and alcohol abuse prevention that resulted in the creation of the Qungasvik, a toolbox promoting reasons for life and sobriety among youth. The Qungasvik is made up of thirty‐six modules that function as cultural scripts for creating experiences in Yup'ik communities that build strengths and protection against suicide and alcohol abuse. The Qungasvik manual represents the results of a community based participatory research intervention development process grounded in culture and local process, and nurtured through a syncretic blending of Indigenous and Western theories and practices. This paper will provide a description of the collaborative steps taken at the community‐level to develop the intervention modules. This process involved university researchers and community members coming together and drawing from multiple sources of data and knowledge to inform the development of prevention activities addressing youth suicide and alcohol abuse. We will present case examples describing the development of three keystone modules;Qasgiq(The Men's House),Yup'ik Kinship Terms, and Surviving Your Feelings. These modules each are representative of the process that the community co‐researcher team took to develop and implement protective experiences that: (1) create supportive community, (2) strengthen families, and (3) give individuals tools to be healthy and strong.
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Qungasvik is a strengths-based Yup'ik community-developed and driven intervention that builds protection against alcohol misuse and suicide among Yup'ik Alaska Native youth 12-18 years old.
“Qungasvik (“koo-ngaz-vick,” meaning tool box) is a strengths-based Yup’ik community-developed and driven intervention that builds protection against alcohol misuse and suicide among Yup’ik Alaska Native youth 12–18 years old (Rasmus, Charles, & Mohatt, 2014).”
From Growing from Our Roots: Strategies for Developing Culturally Grounded Health Promotion Interventions in American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Communities (2020) · cites this paper as Rasmus, Charles, & Mohatt, 2014
Qungasvik engages youth with their community using a cultural process of project implementation, relational and intergenerational instruction, and knowledge transmission.
“Qungasvik engages youth with their community using a cultural process of project implementation, relational and intergenerational instruction, and knowledge transmission (Rasmus, et al. 2014).”
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Self-citationFrom Lone Wolves to Relational Reindeer: Revealing Anthropological Myths and Methods in the Arctic
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Self-citation
- Authors
- Rasmus, S. M., Charles, B., & Mohatt, G. V.
- Affiliations
- University of Alaska Fairbanks (US)
- Corresponding author
- Rasmus, Stacy M.
- ORCID
- Rasmus, Stacy M.
- Venue
- American Journal of Community Psychology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2014-04-24
- Volume
- 54
- Issue
- 1-2
- Pages
- 140-152
- ISSN
- 0091-0562 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-2770
- PMC
- PMC4119530
- OpenAlex
- W1975656827
- Cited by
- 80
- References
- 18
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 4
- FWCI
- 6.39
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- Locations
- American Journal of Community Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R21AA016098, R01AA11446, R01AA011446)
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (P30GM103325)
- National Center for Research Resources (P20RR061430, P20RR016430)
- National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (R24MD001626)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Keywords
- youth suicide prevention, alcoholism prevention, community-based participatory research, cultural scripts, protective factors, kinship terms, men's house, family support, Yup'ik
- MeSH terms
- Suicide Prevention, Adolescent, Alaska, Alcoholism, Child, Cooperative Behavior, Culture, Inuit, Female, Humans, Male, Substance-Related Disorders, Community-Based Participatory Research
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