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Title: Latinx Youth Resilience: Lessons from Empowered and Community-Engaged Research in New Mexico
Language: English
Authors: Thomas A. Chavez (ORCID 0000-0003-3565-2669), Theresa H. Cruz, Jaelyn deMaria, Lisa Cacari Stone (ORCID 0000-0003-0357-3413)
Source: Health Education & Behavior. 2025 52(1):26-31.
Availability: SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: https://sagepub.com
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 6
Publication Date: 2025
Sponsoring Agency: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) (DHHS/NIH)
Contract Number: 5U54MD00481110
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Descriptive
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Youth, Resilience (Psychology), Social Influences, Health, Community Problems, Medical Services, Intervention, Fear, Immigrants, Trauma, Family Problems, Access to Health Care, Advocacy
Geographic Terms: New Mexico
DOI: 10.1177/10901981251346726
ISSN: 1090-1981
1552-6127
Abstract: Latinx youth of New Mexico have suicide rates higher than the national average and face complex challenges to health and well-being. This calls for prioritization of research and interventions at the systems level, including those that consider social determinants of health. This manuscript highlights two innovative community-engaged projects that address Latinx youth behavioral health. The first project capitalized on a partnership between university personnel and a community organizing agency that serves undocumented and mixed-status youth, young adults, and their families to qualitatively examine their experiences in U.S. medical and educational systems. Emergent themes from their voiced experiences informed future interventions and policies to address perpetual fear, race- and immigrant-based trauma, family disruption, and systemic barriers and build on culturally based resilience factors. The second project focused on shifting narratives about power through multimedia storytelling to impact systemic changes to improve the well-being of Latinx youth. Implications emphasize the need to address behavioral health beyond the individual level, to family, community, sociopolitical, and historical contexts. Furthermore, centering the voices of marginalized communities in research results in better informed interventions and policies that impact their lives. Finally, interventionists and researchers need to include critical perspectives that place power structures at the forefront of health inequities among marginalized groups. Use of democratic, co-creative processes of community-engagement allow for the development of relevant and meaningful scholarly products and collaborative efforts in advocacy of Latinx youth behavioral health and education legislation and policies.
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