My grant proposal requests funds to support activities for carrying out programs that build resilience (Zolkoski & Bullock, 2012). Also, the grant programs will build self-efficacy among subsidized housing recipients to eliminate intergenerational poverty. Programs that will provide mentoring – including proper nutrition and entrepreneurship training, as well as professional development are a primary focus.
Poverty in Florida exists in concentrated areas (Williamson, Smith, & Strambi-Kramer, 2009); intergenerational poverty exacerbates this issue (Shaw, 2018). According to a Center on Budget Policy and Priorities (CPBB) report, in Florida, there are 206,000 households receiving rental assistance and an additional 760,000 unassisted low-income renter households paying more than half their income for housing (CPBB, 2017). At least 31% of the assisted households represent adults with children (CPBB, 2017). These children are at higher risk compared to the general population for experiencing events qualifying as adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) (Bruner, 2017). ACEs are associated with a host of adverse health outcomes including death (Felitti et al., 1998). Research that examines the effects of Mentorship and self-efficacy program development is essential to addressing the association between low-income households and ACEs through resilience building among subsidized housing recipients to mitigate the prevalence of intergenerational poverty.
Trauma Informed Principles
The principles of safety and peer support will be heavily utilized in this grant. Safety involves creating a safe and welcoming environment for clients. The environment should promote both physical and psychological safety. There will be no use of physical restraint or physical control, and the general area where clients meet will always be kept inviting and clean. Clients will be screened early and in a comprehensive manner to make sure that every precaution is taken in terms of reducing the likelihood of re-traumatization. Personal interactions will promote safety as well.
Peer support involves putting trauma survivors into the fabric of the interventions or programs that this grant will aid in developing. Family members of trauma survivors should also be involved in program implementation. This will help to build trust and safety among clients. Peer stories are an integral component of this principle as they promote recovery and healing. These principles will make sure that the grants implementation is a success.
Social Ecological Levels
The levels of the socioecological model that this project addresses are intrapersonal, interpersonal, organizational, community, public policy, physical environment, and culture. The reason that all of the levels of the social ecological model are addressed in this project is that they all are interrelated, and it would be difficult to address one without addressing the other. For example, to address the intrapersonal level would be to address the factors associated with the individual subsidized housing recipient. If the research that is developed by this project only informs interventions directed towards individuals then we would not know if those interventions pose any conflicts with current or proposed interventions on the public policy or cultural levels. When dealing with poverty, we must address factors at every level that pertains to individuals and the society they live in.
Public Health Framework
This project will utilize a Public Health Framework in the sense that it will encourage primary, secondary, and tertiary stages of prevention through the social determinants of health. The social determinants of health include where people live, work, and play. Dealing with the issue of poverty directly impacts one of the factors of the social determinants of health from across all three levels of prevention. Empowering people to earn a higher living, and thereby the means to either move out of impoverished neighborhoods or to collectively lift the socioeconomic status of entire communities is a powerful tool that this project with the aid of this grant purposes to accomplish.
References:
https://www.cbpp.org/sites/def...s/4-13-11hous-FL.pdf (Links to an external site.)
Bruner, C. (2017). ACE, Place, Race, and Poverty: Building Hope for Children. Academic Pediatrics, 17(7, Supplement), S123-S129. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acap.2017.05.009 (Links to an external site.)
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Shaw, B. L. (2018). Exclusionary Zoning and Justice: Concentrated Disadvantage, Intergenerational Poverty, Persistent Legality.
Thomas, K. (2019). Yoga4Change: Teaching Resilience From Within. Lecture & Video. University of Florida PHC6937
Zolkoski, S. M., & Bullock, L. M. (2012). Resilience in children and youth: A review. Children and Youth Services Review, 34(12), 2295-2303. doi: (Links to an external site.)https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2012.08.009
Williamson, A. R., Smith, M. T., & Strambi-Kramer, M. (2009). Housing Choice Vouchers, the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, and the Federal Poverty Deconcentration Goal. Urban Affairs Review, 45(1), 119-132. doi:10.1177/1078087409336529
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