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Reference Links

Adolescents

America’s Children in Brief:  Key National Indicators of Well-being 2010  www.childstats.gov/

Native Teen Voices:  Sexual Experiences www.ntv.umn.edu/sex.shtm#for

Girls Study Group, Understanding and Responding to Girls’ Delinquency girlsstudygroup.rti.org/index.html

Center for Young Women’s Health  – An award-winning teen girls’ health website featuring health guides, quizzes, chats.  www.youngwomenshealth.org/

National Latino Children’s Institute   www.nlci.org/DLN/2010/Forum2010/_Main.html

Health Games Research – Advancing effectiveness of interactive games for health  www.healthgamesresearch.org/

Cancer

Comprehensive Cancer Control   www.springerlink.com/content/1836gh2350377568/

Texas Cancer Registry www.cancer-rates.info/tx/index.php and www.dshs.state.tx.us/tcr/

Curricula

GoGirlGo! Curriculum  www.womenssportsfoundation.org/GoGirlGo/Curriculum.aspx

Say It Straight Curriculum – Say It Straight is a research-based education and training program that results in empowering communication skills and behaviors, increased self-awareness, positive relationships, personal and social responsibility and decreased risky or destructive behaviors, such as alcohol, tobacco and other drug use, violence, precocious sexual behavior and behaviors leading to HIV/AIDS.  www.sayitstraight.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=54

The Strengthening Families Program:  For Parents and Youth 10-14  www.strengtheningfamilies.org/html/programs_1999/14_SFP10-14.html

Evidence-Based Initiatives

What Works for Women and Girls: Evidence for HIV/AIDS Interventions www.whatworksforwomen.org

Emergency Preparedness

National Resource Center on Advancing Emergency Preparedness for Culturally Diverse Communities  www.diversitypreparedness.org/

Evaluation

MEASURE Evaluation is the USAID Global Health Bureau’s primary vehicle for supporting improvements in monitoring and evaluation in population, health, and nutrition worldwide. Help to identify data needs, collect and analyze technically sound data and use that data for health decision making. www.cpc.unc.edu/measure

National Center for Educational Statistics  www.nces.ed.gov

Food/Nutrition

Your Food Environment Atlas  maps.ers.usda.gov/FoodAtlas/

Health Indicators

The Cochrane Library – Independent high-quality evidence for health care decision making www.thecochranelibrary.com/view/0/index.html

Community Health Status Indicators CHSI  communityhealth.hhs.gov/HomePage.aspx

Health Indicators Warehouse – Indicators are categorized by topic, geography, and initiative.  www.healthindicators.gov/

County Health Rankings – www.countyhealthrankings.org/

Oklahoma State Department of Health Database www.ok.gov/health/pub/wrapper/ok2share.html

State Health Access Data Assistance Center reports on insurance indicators by state  www.shadac.org

State Health Facts – www.statehealthfacts.org/

State Health Stats – www.americashealthrankings.org/

Grants

Grants Office provides the information and services that help you achieve your professional and organizational goals.  www.grantsoffice.com/

Tribal Grants  www.tribalgrants.info/

Mentoring

Mentoring- National Mentoring Partnership  www.mentoring.org/

Movies

Movie clips from 12000 movies.  www.movieclips.com

Native American

Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures – www.facultystaff.richmond.edu/~rnelson/asail/

Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/PublicHealth/research/centers/CAIANH/journal/Pages/Volume17.aspx

The Healthy Aboriginal Network – Creating comic books on health and social issues for youth. www.thehealthyaboriginal.net/

Indian Health Service Online Search, Consultation, and Reporting (OSCAR) System www.ihs.gov/oscar/index.html?module=home

Indian Internet Resource Guide  www.indianz.com

The Program Brief, AHRQ Research and Other Activities Relevant to American Indians and Alaska Natives, has been updated.

National Congress of American Indians Policy Research Center  www.ncaiprc.org/research-regulation

Selected Articles from the Special Section on Indigenous Peoples:  Promoting Psychological Healing and Well-Being  www.apa.org/pi/oema/resources/communique/index.aspx

Urban Diabetes Care and Outcomes Audit Report:  Aggregate Results from Urban Indian Health Organizations 2005-2009  www.uihi.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/2010-aggregate-diabetes-report-final.pdf

Suicide

Suicide Prevention Resource Center /AIAN Suicide Prevention  www2.sprc.org/aian/index

Making Research Findings Actionable – A quick reference to communicating health information for decision-making  www.cpc.unc.edu/measure/publications/pdf/ms-09-39.pdf

Toolkits

Does it run in the family?  A family health history tool for genetic alliance. www.doesitruninthefamily.com/

Mental health screening tools. www.freementalhealthscreening.com/id21.html

Toolkit for integrating HIV services in Native health settings www.nnaapc.org/resources/integration_toolkit.htm

Center for Health Training  www.centerforhealthtraining.org/resources/index.html#IXNat