Growing Resilience: an RCT on the health impact of gardens with Wind River Indian Reservation is funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute with the National Institute of General Medical Sciences at the National Institutes of Health, grant no. R01 HL126666-01.
Growing Resilience is led by Christine M. Porter, assistant professor and Wyoming Excellence Chair in Community and Public Health in the Division of Kinesiology and Health at UW. Growing Resilience is a collaboration among UW, Northern Arapaho Tribal Health, Eastern Shoshone Tribal Health, Action Resources International and Blue Mountain Associates.
The Growing Resilience project leverages tribal assets of land, family, culture and community health organizations to develop and evaluate home food gardens as a family-based health promotion intervention to reduce disparities suffered by Native Americans in nearly every measure of health. In support of the project, a Wind River reservation community member wrote, “I think gardening was our history. We need to get it back.”
Growing Resilience: An Introduction to the Project and Baseline Results from Alyssa Wechsler on Vimeo.
Growing Resilience
University of Wyoming
1000 E. University Ave, Dept 3196
Laramie, Wyoming 82071
Phone: 307 399 3247
Fax: 307 766 4098
Email: info@growingresilience.org