NCRE Scholars Program
The Native Children’s Research Exchange (NCRE) brings together researchers studying child development from birth through emerging adulthood in Native communities. NCRE provides opportunities for the open exchange of information and ideas and for building collaborative relationships and disseminating knowledge about Native children’s development. Mentoring early career investigators and graduate students, particularly those who are American Indian, Alaska Native, or Native Hawaiian community members, is central to NCRE’s mission.
The NCRE Scholars Program provides career development support to early career investigators and late-stage graduate students interested in pursuing research on substance use and disorder and Native child and adolescent development. In the first eight years of this program (2012-2020), NCRE Scholars has included 19 Scholars in eight cohorts, including ten postdoctoral Scholars and nine graduate student Scholars. We are now recruiting 4 Scholars to join Cohort 9, which will launch in September 2020. Early career investigators, including junior faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and late-stage doctoral students in psychology, sociology, public health, anthropology, education, or related disciplines are eligible to apply.
The NCRE Scholars program is supported by a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (R25DA050645; Whitesell and Sarche, PIs).
Featured Scholar
NCRE Scholar Katie Schultz
Katie Schultz is a former NCRE Scholar (Cohort 6, 2017-2018) and is currently an Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University of Michigan. She holds a PhD in Social Welfare from the University of Washington. She and her co-author, Emma Noyes, are really excited about a recent publication in the journal Genealogy. In the article, the authors examine an important yet unexplored topic—dating and relationships among a sample of young Native women. They incorporate some innovative approaches in the article that the authors hope will expand how we think about academic publishing. This included adding illustrations to the text and asking a group of Indigenous women to review and interpret the findings for the discussion section.