Suzanne Rataj
Biographic Data
| ID | 226967 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suzanne Rataj |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suzanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Rataj |
| SIGNATURE | RATAJ S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1840-5677 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Who Are the Helpers? Patterns of Social Support in Rural Alaska Native Communities
Alaska Native (AN) communities in remote Alaska experience disproportionately high rates of youth suicide, and have an abundance of social resources, which are often more plentiful and preferred than clinical care. This cross-sectional study of AN community members (ages 15 to 93) describes actions that AN people report doing to reduce suicide risk and promote mental wellness, and uses logistic regressions to assess differences in number and type…
Care packages to promote universal suicide prevention for remote Alaska Native communities: What worked
PURPOSE: Alaska Native (AN) youth living in remote Alaska suffer disproportionately from suicide when compared to all other American youth. Promoting Community Conversations About Research to End Suicide (PC CARES) is an intervention led by trained community facilitators, which shares scientific best practices to prevent youth suicide with community adults to spark feasible, culturally tailored personal and collective action. After training 34 AN…
Developing self-efficacy and ‘communities of practice’ between community and institutional partners to prevent suicide and increase mental health in under-resourced communities: Expanding the research…
The study widens the scope of suicide prevention. Promising approaches to suicide prevention in rural low-resourced communities include: (1) engaging people in community and institutional roles (2), developing communities of practice for suicide prevention among different sectors of a community, and (3) broadening the scope of suicide prevention to include wellness promotion as well as suicide prevention
Collaboratively Adapting Culturally-Respectful, Locally-Relevant Suicide Prevention for Newly Participating Alaska Native Communities
Because suicide is deeply connected to local, historical and relational contexts, effective suicide prevention strategies must balance maintaining fidelity of evidence-based practices and adapting for the unique needs of diverse communities. Promoting Community Conversations About Research to End Suicide (PC CARES) builds the capacity of local people in close-knit rural Alaska Native communities to take preventative actions based on existing rela…
Implementation beyond the clinic: Community‐driven utilization of research evidence from PC Cares, a suicide prevention program
While implementation and dissemination of research is a rapidly growing area, critical questions remain about how, why, and under what conditions everyday people integrate and utilize research evidence. This mixed‐methods study investigates how participants of Promoting Community Conversations About Research to End Suicide (PC CARES) make sense of and use research evidence about suicide prevention in their own lives. PC CARES is a health interven…
Adapting PC Cares to Continue Suicide Prevention in Rural Alaska During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Narrative Overview of an In-Person Community-Based Suicide Prevention Program Moving Online
This paper presents how a community mobilization program to prevent suicide was adapted to an online format to accommodate the impossibility of in-person delivery in Alaska Native communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The intervention, Promoting Community Conversations About Research to End Suicide (PC CARES), was created collaboratively by researchers and Alaska Native communities with the goal of bringing community members together to creat…
Community mobilization for rural suicide prevention: Process, learning and behavioral outcomes from Promoting Community Conversations About Research to End Suicide (PC Cares) in Northwest Alaska
Community mobilization for rural suicide prevention: Process, learning and behavioral outcomes from Promoting Community Conversations About Research to End Suicide (PC Cares) in Northwest Alaska
Implementation beyond the clinic: Community‐driven utilization of research evidence from PC Cares, a suicide prevention program
While implementation and dissemination of research is a rapidly growing area, critical questions remain about how, why, and under what conditions everyday people integrate and utilize research evidence. This mixed‐methods study investigates how participants of Promoting Community Conversations About Research to End Suicide (PC CARES) make sense of and use research evidence about suicide prevention in their own lives. PC CARES is a health interven…
Community mobilization for rural suicide prevention: Process, learning and behavioral outcomes from Promoting Community Conversations About Research to End Suicide (PC Cares) in Northwest Alaska
Collaboratively Adapting Culturally-Respectful, Locally-Relevant Suicide Prevention for Newly Participating Alaska Native Communities
Because suicide is deeply connected to local, historical and relational contexts, effective suicide prevention strategies must balance maintaining fidelity of evidence-based practices and adapting for the unique needs of diverse communities. Promoting Community Conversations About Research to End Suicide (PC CARES) builds the capacity of local people in close-knit rural Alaska Native communities to take preventative actions based on existing rela…
Implementation beyond the clinic: Community‐driven utilization of research evidence from PC Cares, a suicide prevention program
While implementation and dissemination of research is a rapidly growing area, critical questions remain about how, why, and under what conditions everyday people integrate and utilize research evidence. This mixed‐methods study investigates how participants of Promoting Community Conversations About Research to End Suicide (PC CARES) make sense of and use research evidence about suicide prevention in their own lives. PC CARES is a health interven…
Adapting PC Cares to Continue Suicide Prevention in Rural Alaska During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Narrative Overview of an In-Person Community-Based Suicide Prevention Program Moving Online
This paper presents how a community mobilization program to prevent suicide was adapted to an online format to accommodate the impossibility of in-person delivery in Alaska Native communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The intervention, Promoting Community Conversations About Research to End Suicide (PC CARES), was created collaboratively by researchers and Alaska Native communities with the goal of bringing community members together to creat…
Care packages to promote universal suicide prevention for remote Alaska Native communities: What worked
PURPOSE: Alaska Native (AN) youth living in remote Alaska suffer disproportionately from suicide when compared to all other American youth. Promoting Community Conversations About Research to End Suicide (PC CARES) is an intervention led by trained community facilitators, which shares scientific best practices to prevent youth suicide with community adults to spark feasible, culturally tailored personal and collective action. After training 34 AN…
Developing self-efficacy and ‘communities of practice’ between community and institutional partners to prevent suicide and increase mental health in under-resourced communities: Expanding the research…
The study widens the scope of suicide prevention. Promising approaches to suicide prevention in rural low-resourced communities include: (1) engaging people in community and institutional roles (2), developing communities of practice for suicide prevention among different sectors of a community, and (3) broadening the scope of suicide prevention to include wellness promotion as well as suicide prevention
Who Are the Helpers? Patterns of Social Support in Rural Alaska Native Communities
Alaska Native (AN) communities in remote Alaska experience disproportionately high rates of youth suicide, and have an abundance of social resources, which are often more plentiful and preferred than clinical care. This cross-sectional study of AN community members (ages 15 to 93) describes actions that AN people report doing to reduce suicide risk and promote mental wellness, and uses logistic regressions to assess differences in number and type…
Poison control (6 works) · Suicide prevention (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Community Health and Development (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies (4 works) · Environmental health (3 works) · Health Policy Implementation Science (3 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (3 works)