Grant: Catalyst Grant: Indigenous Approaches to Wellness Research

The Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project (KSDPP) Community Mobilization Training (CMT) for Wholistic Health and Diabetes Prevention engages community stakeholders to develop and implement culturally relevant strategies to prevent diabetes and achieve wholistic health. Focusing on local Indigenous ways of knowing and healing, our proposal aims to build upon and expand the recognized best-practice of KSDPP through the application of Indigenous approaches to implementing and evaluating community mobilization efforts to promote wholistic health and prevent diabetes. The main aim of the proposed research is to pilot the implementation and assess the impact of the KSDPP CMT in communities that will receive training in order to understand how Indigenous concepts of wellness and Indigenous methodologies can best be captured in the research design of a future proposal.