Tribal Reservation Adolescent Connections Study

Aim 1: Identify changes in AI adolescents’ peer and kinship social networks over time. Hypothesis: Optimal periods and strategies for preventive interventions will vary based on AI youth developmental patterns and SN characteristics. Aim 2: Analyze community-based interorganizational networks among youth-serving institutions. Hypothesis: Resources, capacity, and structure of community-based networks will vary over time and location, resulting in varied coordination of youth services across communities. Aim 3: Test the relationship of peer, kinship, and community-based network characteristics to trajectories of substance use over time and in combination with violence and suicide. Hypothesis: Trajectories of substance use, violence, and suicide will be related across adolescence and influenced by both stable and dynamic individual youth networks and community network contexts.