Visions of Prevention for Native American Youth

There is a pressing need for comprehensive, effective and culturally sensitive preventive interventboth Alcohol and other drug [AOD] abuse and HIV/AIDS to be used by American Indian and Alaskan Nativyouth. An NIAAA funded multi-method AOD/AIDS preventive intervention program (NAPPASA) has been deveNative American youth. The curricula from this program are being distributed to all Native Americaneleven original videos developed for this curricula, however, Have major flaws. They conspicuously iArizona American Indians with few teen participants and excessive amounts of "talking heads." IMS hatechniques for scripting videos and adding clay animation which have proven to enhance appeal/acceptattitudinal responses for adolescents. This project will apply these proven techniques first to evalvideos for changes (community and artistic review) and then redo one of the videos. Evaluating crossAI/AN site factors require formative and rapid ethnographic research in regional AI/AN sites. The retested against the original for effects on variables from the Social Action Theory model of preventiwork to all 11 NAPPASA modules.