Kristi Ka’apu

Biographic Data

ID6483846
NAMEKristi Ka’apu
GIVEN NAMESKristi
FAMILY NAMEKa’apu
SIGNATUREKA’APU K
AFFILIATIONSTulane University
ORCID0009-0002-2024-8073
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • The Weaving Healthy Families Program Preventing Alcohol Misuse Among U.S. Indigenous Adults and Youth

    C E Mckinley, Catherine E O’Connor et al.ARTICLESubstance Use & Misuse2026

    Objectives To evaluate the effectiveness of the Weaving Healthy Families (WHF) program in reducing alcohol and substance use among U.S. Indigenous adults and youth, addressing health disparities and premature mortality driven by alcohol misuse. Design setting A longitudinal dynamic, open cohort stepped-wedge trial conducted in U.S. Indigenous communities, grounded in over a decade of community-based participatory research (CBPR) and Indigenous kn…

  • Support, reciprocity, and kinship as seeds of Indigenous family resilience during Covid ‐19

    Open AccessKya Locklear, C E Mckinley et al.ARTICLEFamily Relations2026

  • Breaking Colonial Barriers

    Open AccessCatherine E O’Connor, Kristi Ka’apuARTICLETrauma Violence & Abuse2026

    Native American (NA) women experience some of the highest rates and severest forms of intimate partner violence (IPV) of any demographic group in the United States. Despite this, they face significant barriers to receiving timely, safe, and culturally responsive healthcare. This integrative review aims to identify and synthesize empirical evidence on the barriers and facilitators to IPV-related healthcare for NA women, addressing a critical gap i…

  • Weaving Webs of Resilience

    Open AccessC E Mckinley, Katherine P Theall et al.ARTICLEResearch on Social Work Practice2026

    Purpose This research tests the efficacy of the Weaving Healthy Families intervention on postintervention improvements for mental health among U.S. Indigenous adults. Method Community-based participatory research, the rigorous stepped-wedge trial design, along with multilevel longitudinal modeling through 12-month postintervention (i.e., pretest, posttest, and 6-, 9-, and 12-month follow up) were used to test our working hypotheses that the adapt…

  • Risk Factors Disrupting Wholistic Wellness Among Indigenous Families During Covid ‐19

    Open AccessKya Locklear, Kristi Ka’apu et al.ARTICLEFamily Process2026

    The impact of the COVID-19 virus disproportionately affected U.S. Indigenous peoples, who experienced the highest infection and death rates in comparison with non-Indigenous peoples. In this article, we use the framework of historical oppression, resilience, and transcendence (FHORT) to understand how Southeastern Indigenous peoples in the United States navigated hardships associated with the COVID-19 global pandemic. This culturally congruent fr…

  • Covid-19-related effects on alcohol and other Drug use among indigenous peoples

    Hannah Knipp, Kristi Ka’apu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnicity in Substance…2025

    Indigenous peoples in the United States have been disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 global pandemic. Using the framework for historical oppression, resilience, and transcendence (FHORT), the present research study recounted the lived experiences of a group of 31 Indigenous women from a tribe located in the southeastern region of the United States regarding alcohol and other drug (AOD) use during the COVID-19 pandemic. Three major themes…

  • Indigenous Motherwork in Crisis

    Open AccessRory Glover, Margaret Mary Downey et al.ARTICLESex Roles2025References: 11

    This study describes the lived experiences of Indigenous mothers during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on caregiving strategies, resilience, and leadership within their families and communities while navigating systemic gendered and racial inequalities. The COVID-19 pandemic amplified long-standing structural inequities, disproportionately impacting Indigenous communities. As primary caregivers and cultural stewards, Indigenous mothers faced int…

  • “Nobody Knew . . . What Was Gonna Happen”

    Open AccessKristi Ka’apu, C E Mckinley et al.ARTICLEOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying2024

    Indigenous peoples have experienced higher rates of loss and death compared to the general population, partly due to historical loss. This qualitative inquiry focused on understanding Indigenous women’s experiences of loss, grief, and death during the COVID-19 pandemic, involving 31 head-of-household Native American women from a southeastern US tribe. Reconstructive analysis of data from a community-based critical ethnography identified the follo…

  • Is Self-Care Sustainable Without Structural Support? A Systematic Review of Self-Care Interventions

    Open AccessKristi Ka’apu, C E Mckinley et al.ARTICLEResearch on Social Work Practice2024

    Purpose: Social workers navigate systemic stressors while managing self-care amid scant institutional support. The purpose of this systematic review is to critically examine the state of social work intervention research for self-care practices. Methods: This review includes empirical research articles focusing on self-care interventions in social work between 2011 and 2022 ( N = 22). Results: All self-care interventions focused on modifying indi…

  • A Culturally Informed Systematic Review of Mental Health Disparities Among Adult Indigenous Men and Women of the USA

    Open AccessKristi Ka’apu, C E Mckinley et al.ARTICLEThe British Journal of Social Work2019

    Related to a broader context of historical oppression, Indigenous peoples of the USA are overburdened with the mental health challenges that social workers tend to treat, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, suicide and substance use disorders (SUD). The purpose of this systematic review is to use the Framework of Historical Oppression, Resilience and Transcendence (FHORT) to identify empirical research on risk and protect…