Pride Yarns

Pride Yarns: Development and Trial of an Intergenerational Intervention for Supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTQA+ Young Peoples' Wellbeing ('Pride Yarns') builds from recent research by the Walkern Katatdjin (Rainbow Knowledge) project, which found that Elders’ acceptance of sexuality and gender diversity promotes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTQA+ young peoples’ social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB).

Pride Yarns will develop and test an Elder-led, inter-generational support intervention, known as Pride Yarns, which aims to improve Aboriginal LGBTQA+ youths’ feelings of acceptance within Aboriginal culture to increase their SEWB. The project will be the first to establish an evidence-based approach for improving SEWB among Aboriginal LGBTQA+ young people, which emphasises the strength of cultural connection, and in turn, will place youth on positive health pathways for young adulthood and beyond.

Aims:

The overall aim of Pride Yarns is to support a community-led program where Aboriginal LGBTQA+ young people (14-25 years) can come to local services (the Youth Pride Network, Yorgum Healing Services, and Wungening Aboriginal Corporation) to yarn about culture, sexuality and gender with their Elders and community leaders.

Research Methods

The project consists of 3 phases.

Phase 1: Co-design the Pride Yarns intervention for implementation at multiple community settings in Perth.

Phase 2: Pilot the Pride Yarns intervention and assess the acceptability, demand for, and suitability of the intervention for increasing feelings of acceptance, beliefs that Aboriginal and LGBTQA+ identities can coexist, and improving the SEWB in Aboriginal LGBTQA+ youth participants.

Phase 3: Develop an evidence-based toolkit for up-scaling, implementing, and assessing the Pride Yarns intervention across Australia.

Ethics

Western Australian Aboriginal Health Ethics Committee (WAAHEC) reference: #HREC1351
Murdoch Human Research Ethics Committee: #
ECU Human Research Ethics Committee:

Governance

This project has been developed in consultation with our supporting organisations, and two governance groups representing community perspectives.

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