UNC Pembroke - Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina

2019 Girls Who Code Club

Many of the girls discussed mental health issues that have affected them, their family, and/or friends. The girls all agreed they were unaware of local resources available to help with mental health issues.

Create a website that can be shared with our community that has information regarding mental health including contact information.
Create a “scratch project” that will be included on their individual group webpage . Scratch, is a program, that allowed the girls to create interactive stories using computer code.

Cultural Identity

Anger

Suicide

Anxiety

Cyberbullying

Lack of awareness about mental health issues and services can prevent Native Americans from receiving treatment.
The concept of mental illness and beliefs about why and how it develops have many different meanings and interpretations among Native Americans.
Native Americans appear to use alternative therapies at rates equal to or greater than whites. In fact, research has found that Native American men and women who meet the criteria for depression, anxiety, or substance abuse disorders are significantly more likely to seek help from a spiritual healer than from specialty or other medical sources.

Native Americans experience serious psychological distress 1.5 times more than the general population.
Native Americans experience PTSD more than twice as often as the general population.
Although overall suicide rates are similar to those of whites, there are significant differences among certain age groups. Suicide is the second leading cause of death among 10-34 year olds; whereas, the suicide rate among Native Americans that are more than 75 years old is only one-third of the general population.
Native Americans use and abuse alcohol and other drugs at younger ages, and at higher rates, than all other ethnic groups.

Native Americans have twice the rate of victimization than that of African Americans, and more than 2.5 times that of whites.
Compared to the total U.S. population, more than twice as many Native Americans live in poverty. In 2013, Native American men and women were nearly twice as likely as whites to be unemployed.

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