The Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center offers harm reduction programming to at-risk adolescent American Indian girls, including outreach, case management, advocacy, healthy sexuality education, and support groups. To evaluate program impact, participants are assessed at intake and every 6 months afterward for current vulnerability to commercial sexual exploitation, violence, and addiction. Evaluation results indicate frequent exposure to sex traffickers and suggest that harm reduction methods can help girls reduce risk of commercial sexual exploitation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Pierce, Alexandra (Sandi)
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research
2012
19
1
20
National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research
Journal Article
American Indians; Case Management; Harm Reduction; Human Trafficking; Sexuality; Human Females; Susceptibility (Disorders); Childhood (birth-12 yrs); School Age (6-12 yrs); Adolescence (13-17 yrs); Female
Setting
Tribal Creation
Individual/Child
Primary
Child
child temperament or behavior