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TRAUMA-INFORMED PRINCIPLES SAMHSA’s trauma-informed principles will serve as a project guide, as our organization prioritizes the principles of safety, trustworthiness and transparency, peer support and mutual self-help, and empowerment, voice, and choice (SAMHSA, 2014). The principle of safety is upheld by ensuring that our staff pass a mandatory background check and are adequately trained in trauma, resilience-building skills, and confidentiality. Programs will take place within local...

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) affect justice-involved youth at higher rates than the general population associated with delinquent behavior and recidivism (Abram et al., 2004). This trauma-informed project at the Alachua Regional Juvenile Detention Center is proposed as a solution to ACEs induced delinquent behavior and recidivism in justice-involved youth. Through education, therapy, and social support this program tries to mitigate the effects of ACEs and retraumatization, in...

The Alachua County Feeding All Children Initiative (ACFAC) is a proposed multi-level and trauma-informed intervention aiming to decrease physical neglect ACEs in Alachua County through providing discounted or free school day dinners to children attending Title 1 benefit receiving Elementary Schools in Alachua County. Alachua County’s poverty level is 10% higher than the national average (Florida Health, 2018; U.S. Census Bureau, 2019), resulting in the high 19.8% of Alachua residents who are...

With depression a leading cause of disability around the world, it is vital to implement trauma-informed initiatives that help educate individuals on how to build resiliency, understand mental health in themselves and others, and be better equipped for the future. With those aged 18-24-years the most affected by depression, starting in high school can give students the step they need in the right direction. The program initiative develops a consecutive program for high school students that...

Overall, my grant project is to create and instill curricula in schools for teachers and students around LGBT issues with the goal of educating teachers and students, decreasing discrimination towards LGBT folks, and eventually making the community more LGBT accepting. The LGBT population continually faces discrimination resulting in numerous disparities. LGBT youth are some of the most vulnerable to these disparities include verbal harassment, physical harassment, and physical assault which...

Village Health Teams (VHTs) are the primary point of contact for health services in Uganda (Ministry of Health, 2017). VHTs are responsible for basic health interventions, such as recording basic health and demographic data, referring patients to higher-level health services and following-up after appointments, and providing education on health issues to community members (Ministry of Health, 2012). While VHTs have high levels of interaction with the community, there is no evidence of their...

By Abby R. Rosenberg, JAMA Pediatrics, April 14, 2020 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is affecting our health care community in unprecedented ways. As a pediatric oncologist who studies resilience in the context of illness, I started thinking about what this pandemic means for our professional resilience a few weeks ago, when the first US patient with fatal COVID-19 died in my home city of Seattle, Washington. Promoting resilience among health care workers and organizations starts with...

African Americans in Alachua County are disproportionately affected by diabetes (Chun, 2010). Furthermore, diabetes leads to numerous other diseases and complications if left untreated and improperly managed (American Diabetes Association, 2018). This intervention will target African Americans with low incomes who have been diagnosed with diabetes. They will then be screened and selected by the presence of one or more adverse childhood experiences (ACE). The program will meet twice a month...

This is the final week to register or request a scholarshi p to attend the virtual Creating a Resilient Community: From Trauma to Healing Conference on April 21st. This virtual event with cutting edge community resilience and trauma healing speakers Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg and Dr. Wendy Ellis will provide a platform to convene as a community to learn, connect, and envision a path forward together to transform our region into one of prevention, hope, healing and resilience for all. Conference...

The Baker County Fire Rescue Trauma-Informed Community Paramedicine Program will aim to prevent cardiac disease by using the emergency medical services to bring primary care to patients’ doorsteps. In doing so, the emergency medical services will no longer simply respond to 911 calls but work proactively to prevent them from happening in the first place. This program will work through three actions: in home scheduled follow up visits involving patient assessment and chronic disease...

Adverse Childhood Experiences or ACEs are situations in which children experience abuse, neglect and household challenges. The most crucial time for a person’s development is from birth to the late teens. These situations as a child or young adult can have a negative effect on children throughout their life, not just mentally but they can also lead to negative health outcomes as they grow and mature. Some of those outcomes include diabetes, heart conditions and cancer. This ACEs Medical...

This grant proposal is for a program aimed at identifying children experiencing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). The goals of the program are to screen children in elementary schools for ACEs and connect them to the appropriate community interventions. This will be done by identifying areas of need in Alachua County and finding schools that are good candidates for this screening program. Cross-sector collaboration and engagement are two of the key trauma-informed principles that will be...