Helping Native Teens Make Health Decisions

All youth – including Native youth – face extreme pressures to fit in and belong. To make the best decisions, youth need factual and science-based information that is delivered in a way they can relate and, by people they can trust and feel comfortable talking with about the pressures of fitting in and belonging. To help fill this need, the Indian Health Service’s (IHS) National STD Program collaborated with the National Coalition of STD Directors (Washington, DC),Mercer University School of Medicine (Macon, Georgia), and Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board’s Project Red Talon (Portland, Oregon) to develop Native Students Together Against Negative Decisions (STAND).