title: The coming of the blessing: A successful cross-cultural collaborative effort for American Indian/Alaska Native families.
abstract: This case study describes how the desire of an American Indian community in Wyoming grew into an American Indian/Alaska Native women's advisory committee, a culturally appropriate prenatal education booklet, and a national initiative for a nonprofit organization. The work began by bringing together women from 13 different nations and tribes, gaining the trust of the American Indian/Alaska Native women and working together to create an award winning booklet and a national initiative to support culturally appropriate prenatal education to every young American Indian/Alaska Native woman across this nation. Reservations from Wisconsin to Alaska have received this program for their young women.
authors.affiliation: T. Boone Pickens Institute of Health Sciences-Dallas Center, The Houston J. and Florence A. Doswell College of Nursing, Texas Woman's University, Dallas, USA. carnold@twu.edu
authors.forename: Carol M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Arnold
authors.forename: Denise
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Aragon
authors.forename: Janet
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shephard
authors.forename: Sharon L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Van Sell
mesh_terms: D026683:Advisory Committees; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American / Q000523:psychology; D008429:Maternal Welfare / Q000208:ethnology*; D010174:Pamphlets; D011247:Pregnancy; D011295:Prenatal Care / Q000523:psychology; D014481:United States