• Culturally healthy youth take an active interest in learning their heritage and assume responsibility for their role as contributing members of the family and community in which they live.
  
  - Learn all you can about your family, kinship relations, and community history and cultural heritage.
  
  - Participate in traditional activities with parents, elders, and other members of the community, and learn the stories and lessons associated with those activities.
  
  - Become actively involved in local activities and organizations that contribute to the quality of life in your community.
  
  - Show respect to the elders in your community by assisting them in any way you can.
  
  - Get involved in local, regional, state, and national issues and organizations that impact your community.
  
  - Make healthy choices in your lifestyle that contribute to the wholeness and well being of yourself and those around you.
  
  - Always be a good role model, show respect, and provide support to others.
  
  - Participate in apprenticeships with cultural experts in the community and acquire traditional conflict resolution skills.
  
  - Associate with friends who can provide healthy role models that will make a positive contribution to your growth, development, and education toward adulthood.
  
  Adopted by Assembly of Alaska Native Educators Anchorage , Alaska

February 2001