“When you follow your heart, you provide that path for others”: Indigenous Models of Youth Leadership in HIV Prevention

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dc.contributor.authorMonchalin, Renee
dc.contributor.authorFlicker, Sarah
dc.contributor.authorWilson, Ciann
dc.contributor.authorPrentice, Tracey
dc.contributor.authorOliver, Vanessa
dc.contributor.authorJackson, Randy
dc.contributor.authorLarkin, June
dc.contributor.authorMitchell, Claudia
dc.contributor.authorRestoule, Jean-Paul
dc.contributor.authorYouth, Native Youth Sexual Health Network
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-14T18:08:06Z
dc.date.available2018-05-14T18:08:06Z
dc.date.copyright2016en_US
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractCultivating and supporting Indigenous peer youth leaders should be an important part of Canada’s response to HIV. This paper examines how a group of Indigenous youth leaders took up the notion of leadership in the context of HIV prevention. Taking Action II was a community-based participatory action research project. Eighteen Indigenous youth leaders from across Canada were invited to share narratives about their passion for HIV prevention through digital storytelling. One-on-one semi-structured interviews were conducted with participants after they developed their digital stories, and then again several months later. A thematic analysis of the interviews was conducted to identify major themes. Youth identified qualities of an Indigenous youth leader as being confident, trustworthy, willing to listen, humble, patient, dedicated, resilient, and healthy. A number of key examples and challenges of youth leadership were also discussed. In contrast to individualized mainstream ideals, Indigenous youth in our study viewed leadership as deeply connected to relationships with family, community, history, legacies, and communal health.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research and the Ontario HIV Treatment Network, and it was supported by the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMonchalin, R., Flicker, S., Wilson, C., Prentice, T., Oliver, V., Jackson, R., …Native Youth Sexual Health Network (2016). "When you follow your heart, you provide that path for others": Indigenous Models of Youth Leadership in HIV Prevention. International Journal of Indigenous Health, 11(1), 135-158. http://dx.doi.org/10.18357/ijih111201616012en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18357/ijih111201616012
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/9357
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInternational Journal of Indigenous Healthen_US
dc.subjectIndigenous
dc.subjectHIV
dc.subjectyouth
dc.subjectleadership
dc.subjectcommunity-based participatory research
dc.subjectdigital storytelling
dc.subjectCanada
dc.subject.departmentSchool of Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education
dc.subject.departmentDepartment of Indigenous Education
dc.title“When you follow your heart, you provide that path for others”: Indigenous Models of Youth Leadership in HIV Preventionen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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