Health advocates are increasingly using social media and mobile technology to reach American Indian and Alaska Native youth to address important health topics and enhance protective factors.
Technology-based health interventions that nurture resilience, coping skills, connectedness, and help-seeking skills may be an effective strategy for promoting health and wellbeing among AI/AN youth.
American Indian and Alaska Native youth are strong in culture and rich in heritage and experience unique strengths and challenges throughout adolescence.
American Indian and Alaska Native populations in the United States face significant disparities related to opioid use disorder and opioid-related mortality.
Suicide is the leading cause of injury-related death in the United States, and between 1999 and 2009 the greatest increases in suicide were among American Indians and Alaska Natives.