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Year Awarded: 2003
Project Leaders:
Suzanne L. Cross, Ph.D., Associate
Professor, School of Social Work
Project Description:
This qualitative study will be conducted to assess three major factors
in the construct of American Indian Elders who are raising their
grandchildren. The factors include the impact of historical trauma,
the culturally grounded traditional role of elderhood, and the influence
of the Indian Child Welfare Act on the grandparents’ decision
to parent their grandchildren. Also, the Beck Inventory Scale will
be used to assess signs of depression in the grandparents. Twenty-five
face-to-face, individual interviews and (10) focus groups of eight
members each will be conducted within a 14-month period. The focus
group sessions will be held at congregate meal sites and the individual
interviews will be conducted at the elders’ center or the
homes of the elders. The investigators will travel to the American
Indian communities throughout Michigan to contact and conduct interviews
and focus groups.
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