The University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions partnered with Peace4Tarpon under the Robert Wood Johnson Mobilizing Action for Resilient Communities (MARC) grant funding period and have sustained their strong community-academic partnership. Together they created a 9-credit online graduate certificate in trauma-informed and resilience-based public health. Peace4Gainesville also contributed to this certificate.
This post is intended to showcase some of the work of the graduate students in the Spring 2019 course “PHC6937: Trauma-Informed Approaches for Individuals, Communities, and Public Health” and the undergraduate course (HSC4930) of the same name.
The goal of these trauma-informed courses is to provide students with an overview of ACEs and resilience science and the trauma-informed approach within a public health framework; an examination of the public health prevention and treatment of trauma at the primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention levels; the opportunity to design and implement public health interventions to address and prevent trauma and ACEs at all levels of the social ecological model; and practical instruction in the grant writing process. Upon successful implementation of instruction, students will be able to see public health problems and solutions through a trauma-informed lens.
The 20 graduate students and 12 undergrad students enrolled in these courses have posted a summary of their grant proposals/ intervention projects which involved selecting a specific target population and area of ACEs/ trauma that could be addressed through a public health intervention. The students designed a trauma-informed, resilience-based public health intervention that seeks to improve health, address a problem, and/ or build resilience within the population and selected ACEs/ trauma area. The students selected one or more levels of the social ecological model that the intervention will address, utilized academic/ research literature as justification for each of their decisions at all phases, and wrote the assignment as if they were responding to a grant funding announcement. They were required to include the trauma-informed principles that their proposal intends to utilize, a description of their public health framework, and a plan to evaluate progress toward their outcomes.
Please feel free to comment on the student projects if you would like to provide feedback!
The graduate course syllabus is posted here: https://mph.ufl.edu/wordpress/...nline-Spring2019.pdf and more information about the graduate certificate and individual courses within the certificate is posted here: https://sbs.phhp.ufl.edu/dista...-resiliency-courses/. The undergraduate course syllabus is attached.
Lindsey King, PhD, MPH, CHES, CCRP, CTTS
College of Public Health and Health Professions
University of Florida
Email: Linking@ufl.edu
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