CITC's Dr. Angela Michaud said adapting village traditions to a city like Anchorage helps youth tap into their culture to improve their health outcomes and decrease rates of addiction.
CITC is a tribal nonprofit that calls itself a “culturally-responsive social service organization.” Dr. Angela Michaud is CITC’s senior director of recovery services.
A CITC cultural event involves taking youth to pick berries and then gives them a jar to take home to their families. CITC has found through surveys that participants are consistently not using substances when they’re doing cultural activities. With some of the money, they’re able to run monthly cultural events targeting Alaska Native youth and their family members.
Robert Blum from Johns Hopkins University is an expert on adolescent health and the primary author on the paper. He emphasized thatthat conventional, information-based addiction prevention strategies for youth have no effect on young people – and sometimes even have negative effects. He advocates for treating “young people as resources, rather than problems.”
“People started getting used to eating the salmon, and then this year we were finally able to get them out there to be able to fish for it,” she said. “And they got their own fish and brought it back. It’s just the excitement and the stories that came out of it.”
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