Roberta Moto
Biographic Data
| ID | 226972 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roberta Moto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roberta |
| FAMILY NAME | Moto |
| SIGNATURE | MOTO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maniilaq Association |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8307-8473 |
| 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 |
Promoting Alaska native wellbeing and suicide prevention in rural schools: A virtual learning circle approach
Introduction Suicide is a leading cause of death among youth in the United States, with particularly high rates among American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) youth in rural areas. Schools can serve as critical settings for suicide prevention by fostering mental health and caring environments. This can be done by teaching and supporting staff and community adults to work together to reduce mental health risks and enhance student wellbeing. The Pr…
Community Strengths That Support Rural Alaska Native Youth: “They’re There for One Another”
This paper describes Alaska Native youth-identified community strengths that support young people’s well-being. Youth from three rural Alaska communities were engaged by the research team in digital storytelling and photovoice to explore their perspectives on what their communities were already undertaking to support youth. Each youth participant was then invited to complete an interview, which was then transcribed, coded, and qualitatively analy…
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…
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…
Promoting Alaska native wellbeing and suicide prevention in rural schools: A virtual learning circle approach
Introduction Suicide is a leading cause of death among youth in the United States, with particularly high rates among American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) youth in rural areas. Schools can serve as critical settings for suicide prevention by fostering mental health and caring environments. This can be done by teaching and supporting staff and community adults to work together to reduce mental health risks and enhance student wellbeing. The Pr…
Community Strengths That Support Rural Alaska Native Youth: “They’re There for One Another”
This paper describes Alaska Native youth-identified community strengths that support young people’s well-being. Youth from three rural Alaska communities were engaged by the research team in digital storytelling and photovoice to explore their perspectives on what their communities were already undertaking to support youth. Each youth participant was then invited to complete an interview, which was then transcribed, coded, and qualitatively analy…
Poison control (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Suicide prevention (5 works) · Community Health and Development (4 works) · Health Policy Implementation Science (4 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Participatory action research (3 works) · Public relations (3 works)