Tagged With "young adult"
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PHC6937: Creating a Trauma-Informed Obstetric Practice and Promoting Resilience among Pregnant Women
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with an increased risk of preterm birth. About half of all Florida residents have experienced at least one ACE and 21-30% of Alachua County residents have experienced 2 or more ACEs (Bright et al). In 2017 in Alachua County, 11.7% of live births were less than 37 weeks gestation (FLHealthCHARTS), which is higher than the overall rate in Florida. The aims of this intervention are to build resilience in pregnant women with a history of ACEs...
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PHC6534: E-Cigarettes and Adverse Childhood Experiences in Alachua Florida
My grant proposal focused on e-cigarette addiction for adolescents within the Alachua County region in Florida. Recently there was a Alachua law change on cigarettes being sold only to people ages 21 and older (Sexton, 2014). However, there is a rise for e-cigarette use in adolescents ages 18 and under (Ikonomidis et.al, 2018). In fact, in 2018 alone, there were 24.8% of high schools students who use electronic vapor products at least once per day in a month (True Initiative, 2018). To...
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PHC6937: Incorporating Trauma Informed Care into Adult Primary Care Providers and Emergency Medical Personnel
Only within the past two years have ACEs gained public recognition in North Carolina sparking program development to address and increase resiliency. Overall, North Carolina’s ACEs ranking is 30th out of 50 (WOCMH, 2017). It appears that little is being done in the medical field in NC to assist medical providers in becoming trauma-informed. By educating patients that childhood trauma may be an underlying cause of their health conditions, they can begin to heal by removing self-blame...
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PHC6937 Resiliency and Compassion Programs for Critical Care Nursing Staff by Amanda Cook BSN, RN, CEN, UF Master's Student MPH SBS
Vicarious trauma and secondary traumatic stress can occur in populations of workers who are exposed to the traumas that others are experiencing. Critical care nurses caring day after day for suffering individuals, have a unique set of experiences that have an increased risk of developing compassion fatigue. Compassion fatigue has been well studied and mimics similarly to Post Traumatic Stress and is often called Secondary Traumatic Stress (Figley, 1995). High Adverse Childhood Experience...
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Primary care providers as mentors to rural, low SES teens
The idea of this project is to utilize primary care providers who see low income teens in rural areas of northern Florida in order to build resiliency among these youth. Providers and teenagers will be encouraged to form mentor type relationships with one another to benefit the teenager. Increased frequency of visits would deepen the trust between the provider and patient. At these visits the provider can talk to their patient about health concerns, take the time to explain how they can...
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Promoting a Community Approach for Mental Well-Being in Our Littlest Citizens [chronicleofsocialchange.org]
By Andrea L. Lowe, The Chronicle of Social Change, June 10, 2019. Several years ago , my sister and I watched my 2-year-old nephew’s behavior change dramatically. He started wetting the bed, throwing temper tantrums and getting frustrated so quickly. In any other child, it might have been normal “terrible twos,” but in him we knew something was definitely wrong. At the time, my sister and her husband were getting divorced. Ultimately, we found out that my nephew thought it was his fault,...
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Syndome X Patient Support by Valerie Christie PHC6534
Grant Proposal Summary: This program will target patients receiving care through the county free clinic who meet the diagnostic criteria for Syndrome X and who are identified during initial intake or subsequent visits as having experienced one or more adverse childhood events defined by UNICEF (2019, p. 5) and Minnesota Department of Health (2019, para 2) as “a traumatic experience in a person’s life occurring before the age of 18 that the person remembers as an adult.” Each patient...
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Tools and how to use them is focus of second webinar on Community Resiliency Model, May 14, 2020
The second of two free Community Resiliency (CRM) webinars with Elaine Miller-Karas , key creator of the CRM, will be held Thursday, May 14, from 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. ET, (10 a.m. CT; 9 a.m. MT, and 8 a.m. PT) and will include the practical application of tools of the model. CRM is an ACEs science-based biological model for helping individuals become emotionally regulated during natural disasters and other dysregulating times. Miller-Karas will be joined by CRM trainers from Wilmington, NC:...
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TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE FOR OUR CHILDREN
The three health information products that I chose are: Infographic Blog post Radio ad I decide to target adults who would help build resiliency in children. These adults are not their parents, but other childcare workers. For example, when a child goes to a daycare or school, they may start to "act up" and misbehave. Instead of expelling or punishing the student, the adult should learn why this child is acting in this manner. In order to learn why the child is acting in this manner, they...
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Trauma Sensitive Care at Champions for Children
Competence, Connect, Care This project focused on developing a model of trauma sensitive care for Champions for Children. Champions for Children is an agency that serves 40,000 annually and has a mission of preventing child abuse. Prevention is accomplished by promoting attachment between caregiver and child, supporting the caregiver in promoting healthy brain development and parent education. The agency never had a comprehensive model to address trauma but there was full support to...
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Upates, good news, recommendation and link to register for Making Meaningful Change: Addressing ACEs through Public Policy Webinar February 18
The World Health Organization has compiled a recent meta-analysis about how much ACEs cost us Millions of adults across Europe and north America live with a legacy of ACEs. Their findings suggest that a 10% reduction in ACE prevalence could equate to annual savings of $105 billion. Programs to prevent ACEs and moderate their effects are available. Rebalancing expenditure towards ensuring safe and nurturing childhoods would be economically beneficial and relieve pressures on health-care...
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Webinar Oct. 17 — Integrating ACEs science in pediatrics: Early adopters share lessons from the field
An ACEs Connection webinar co-sponsored with 4 CA In 2017, California became the first state in the country to pass a law supporting universal screening for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in the 5.3 million children in the state’s Medicaid program. As clinicians around California await the state’s announcement of what this new policy will entail, many are wondering what it takes to integrate ACEs science in a pediatric practice. Meet Drs. Deirdre Bernard-Pearl, R.J. Gillespie and...
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12 Myths of the Science of ACEs
The two biggest myths about ACEs science are: MYTH #1 — That it’s just about the 10 ACEs in the ACE Study — the CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences Study . It’s about sooooo much more than that. MYTH #2 — And that it’s just about ACEs…adverse childhood experiences. These two myths are intertwined. The ACE Study issued the first of its 70+ publications in 1998, and for many people it was the lightning bolt, the grand “aha” moment, the unexpected doorway into a blazing new...
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PHC6534: A Proposal for a Resilience-Informed Dating Matters Program
Adolescent dating violence has been characterized as a public health concern due to its magnitude and the negative health outcomes associated with victimization. Despite prevention efforts existing for multiple decades, rates of dating violence have failed to decline. Even when prevention efforts are finally disseminated, it is unlikely that dating violence will be entirely eradicated. Therefore, programs focusing on the resiliency of survivors are needed. The increased emphasis in recent...
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How do these pediatricians do ACEs screening? Early adopters tell all.
Last week, three pediatricians — with a combined experience of 15 years integrating ACEs science into their practices — reflected on the urgency they felt several years ago that prompted them to begin screening patients for childhood adversity and resilience when there was practically no guidance at all. Along their journey , they accumulated a list of lessons learned for other pediatricians and family clinics to use. The three pediatricians participated in the ACEs Connection webinar,...
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HSC4930 - Family and Unaccompanied Youth Transitional Housing Community – Providing Trauma-Informed Shelter in Gainesville, Florida
Although many organizations providing temporary shelter for individuals experiencing homelessness exist, there is a gap in the Gainesville, Florida community for these services specifically serving families and unaccompanied youth. In 2018 there were an estimated 641 people experiencing homelessness in Alachua County, the majority of whom were on the streets rather than in shelters (NCF Alliance 2018) . In the entirety of Gainesville, Florida, the most recent data from 2012 showed that an...
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Incorporation of a Compassionate Schools Program in the Makah and Hoh Tribes, two Native American Communities in the Pacific Northwest area of the United States Lauren May PHC6937
Abstract: Native American communities in the United States have disproportionately high rates of health disparities such as post-traumatic stress, depression, violence and substance abuse, especially when compared to other demographic groups in the United States 1 . These communities also disproportionately experience adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) with up to 40.3 percent experiencing 2 or more ACEs 3 including childhood physical and sexual abuse, witnessing violence, poverty, racism...
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It took 3 years, 6 versions to develop ACEs screener that works for parents & providers
It’s irrefutable: Widespread research shows that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are common. That’s why researchers in a recent study insist: “It behooves pediatric providers to take an active role in preventing and identifying childhood adversity in order to reduce the health consequences of toxic stress.” In other words, if you want your kids to have a good shot at a healthy life, make sure they — and you — are educated about and screened for ACEs and resilience. In a recent study —...
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ACEs Science Champions Series: Meet Florida's Johnny Appleseed. She plants seeds of ACEs science!
Dr. Mimi Graham is Florida’s Johnny Appleseed, but instead of planting apple trees, she’s been seeding hundreds of ACEs-science-informed schools, courts, juvenile detention centers, hospitals, childcare centers, home visiting programs, mental health agencies, law enforcement agencies, and drug treatment centers. Graham, who has served as director of the Florida State University Center for Prevention and Early Intervention Policy in Tallahassee since 1993, focuses on early childhood,...
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New Study Reveals Annual Cost of Childhood Adversity in California Is Approximately $113 Billion [prnewswire.com]
SAN FRANCISCO , Jan. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ The Center for Youth Wellness announces the release of an in-depth study on the health-related cost of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in the state of California . A number of studies have investigated the cost of child maltreatment, but the current study, entitled " Adult health burden and costs in California during 2013 associated with prior adverse childhood experiences ," is the first to examine the cost associated with adult health...
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Personal stories from witnesses, U.S. representatives provided an emotional wallop to House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on childhood trauma
Room erupts in applause for the grandmother of witness William Kellibrew during July 11 House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing. The power of personal stories from witnesses and committee members fueled the July 11 hearing on childhood trauma in the House Oversight and Reform Committee* throughout the nearly four hours of often emotional and searing testimony and member questions and statements (Click here for 3:47 hour video). The hearing was organized into a two panels—testimony from...
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PHC 6937: Type 2 Diabetes Prevention Utilizing a Trauma-Informed Approach
In the United States, an estimated 9.4% of the adult population has diabetes, and diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death (Statistics, 2018). In addition, about 33% of adults have prediabetes and are at-risk for developing type 2 diabetes (Statistics, 2018). Individuals who have experienced four or more Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) have a 1.6 odds ratio for developing diabetes compared to their counterparts who have no history of ACEs (Felitti,1998). Type 2 diabetes is...
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PHC6534: ACEs Medical Conference
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...
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PHC6534: ADDRESSING IPV THROUGH A CULTURALLY-COMPETENT, TRAUMA-INFORMED BIP PROGRAM
ABSTRACT Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a pervasive public health issue that ravages the lives of millions in the United States each year. [i] There is a growing scientific consensus that the three foundational models of Batterer Intervention Programs used to rehabilitate IPV perpetrators throughout the United States – the psychoeducational model, “The Duluth Model,” and the cognitive-behavioral model - do not have a measurable impact on IPV recidivism rates. [ii] [iii] [iv] Furthermore,...
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A Better Normal, Tuesday, June 2nd at Noon PDT: Higher Education and Trauma During COVID-19
Please join us for the ongoing community discussion of A Better Normal, our ongoing series in which we envision the future as trauma-informed. College graduates across the world have been celebrating their big day virtually this month, missing out on the right of passage that marks their stepping into new realms of adult and professional life. Many students and recent graduates are feeling the negative impact of the current pandemic: being housing displaced, adjusting to virtual classrooms,...
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Support our efforts to secure a CDC ACEs grant to advance FL as a trauma-informed state!
Dear Trauma Friends & Colleagues: We are applying for CDC ACES grant to further our efforts toward a trauma informed state. It’s a collaborative effort across state agencies to improve ACES data collection and utilizes to target prevention strategies. Details in the attached overview. It’s a long shot with only 4 awards but our statewide collaborative efforts are a big strength and it might help push us to the top if we had many letters of support. Attached is a draft letter that you...
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Resilience for Children & Families: Being Brave When Things are Hard
Building Resilience with Children During Racial Discrimination & Violence: This attached Resilience Brief for Children has been the hardest one I have written yet. I have been an active advocate for the equal treatment of people from all backgrounds, religions, ethnic heritages, orientations, and families my entire life. It is hard to see the pain present today, not only due to COVID19 but also due to the harm and anger we see daily in the news. I want to share a story about the person...
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Help Navigating the Road to Community Resiliency
The first time I ever heard the words trauma-informed care and the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) study was in the summer of 2014. At the time, I was working for the local Police Department as the Director of a grant-funded Crime Reduction Project aimed at reducing drug-related and violent crime. Of the many program goals, one was to develop a rehabilitative corrections program for felony offenders with addictions in order to reduce recidivism. Though I’ve lived in this region for...
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Do safe, stable, and nurturing relationships work? New research has important findings for responding to ACEs
While we know that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can cause risk behaviors, research has told us that the presence of protective factors can help mitigate the effects of ACEs. Common risk behaviors such as smoking tobacco and alcohol misuse can be a result from the trauma of childhood disadvantage. In responding to ACEs, public health research proposes that protective factors such as safe, stable, nurturing relationships (SSNRs) with a caring adult can mitigate the long-term effects of...
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Donald Trump is the product of abuse and neglect. His story is common, even for the powerful and wealthy.
“In order to cope,” writes Mary Trump, “Donald began to develop powerful but primitive defenses, marked by an increasing hostility to others and a seeming indifference to his mother’s absence and father’s neglect….In place of [his emotional needs] grew a kind of grievance and behaviors—including bullying, disrespect, and aggressiveness—that served their purpose in the moment but became more problematic over time. With appropriate care and attention, they might have been overcome.”
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Fuerza en la Familia: A Resilience-Building Campaign for Latinx Migrant Farmworker Children
This public health communication campaign proposal is one that aims to build resilient children of Latinx Migrant Farmworkers (LMFW) through the family unit. The target population of the communication is the children's adult caregivers. They will be presented with information on the basics and long-term impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), the risks specific to migrant farmworker children, and most importantly they will be education on how to bring resilience-building techniques...
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PHC6451 Public Health Communication Project: Lean On Me- A Resilience Based Program Focused on Building the Black Man's Legacy
For the purposes of this project, I have created a podcast, infographic, and brochure that highlights my resilience program, "Lean on Me: Building the Black Man's Legacy". The population I have chosen to cater my intervention towards is adult black men. I often think of the quote by Frederick Douglas that states, “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men”. Many of the resilience programs that I have encountered in my studies have been targeted towards children and...
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Tackling Trauma: Building Resilience in Tackle Sports. A Training program for Coaches
Overview. Youth sports are an already recognized way for individuals to build resilience. However, youth sports programs have multiple additional opportunities to build resilience that are likely unrecognized and untapped. By providing a short curriculum, resources, and training to youth sports coaches, this program has the ability to cross levels of the socio ecological model to build resilience. As the title of our program suggests, Tackling Trauma, we are targeting coaches of youth tackle...
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Does VP Candidate Kamala Harris know about ACEs? You bet!
Nadine Burke Harris, California’s Surgeon General, has a lot in common with the vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris—Jamaican heritage, surname, home state—and a commitment to addressing ACEs and toxic stress. As reported in the New Yorker article by Paul Tough, “The Poverty Clinic,” Dr. Harris told Kamala Harris, then San Francisco district attorney, about ACEs in 2008 and in response, she offered to help. District Attorney Harris then introduced her to professor of child and...
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FSU launches new level of professional certification on trauma and resilience (Florida State University News)
By Anna Printess, August 31, 2020, Florida State University News. Florida State University’s College of Social Work recently launched a new level in its successful Professional Certification in Trauma and Resilience online series. The curriculum series, developed by the Clearinghouse on Trauma and Resilience within the college’s Institute for Family Violence Studies in conjunction with the FSU Center for Academic and Professional Development , enables professionals to develop the knowledge...
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Opportunity to sign on to “A Trauma-Informed Agenda for the First 100 Days of the Biden-Harris Administration”—Deadline Dec. 8th
The Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice ( CTIPP ) is inviting individuals and organizations to express their support for a set of executive actions for the Biden-Harris Administration to take “to address trauma and build resilience throughout the country.” Most of these actions could be taken early in the Administration and would not require congressional action with the exception of some recommendations that could be included in a new stimulus package. The recommendations are...
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ACEs Champion: The reintroduction of Michael Hayes — from ACEs awakening to ACEs community service
It wasn’t until his fifth prison term in a North Carolina county jail — his fourth conviction for driving under the influence — that Michael Hayes volunteered to take an ACE survey that changed his life. The 48-year-old father of six sons and one daughter had spent a number of years in and out of prison. During his last term, to get some time out of the cell where he spent 16 hours a day, he volunteered to attend a class offered by RHA Health Services, a nonprofit that incorporates the...
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A Better Normal Friday, March 26, 2021: PACEs and HOPE with Dr. Christina Bethell
Please join us for our next installment of A Better Normal, our live webinar series in which we imagine and create our society as trauma-informed! You may have seen we changed our name recently from ACEs Connection to PACEs Connection. Please join us to learn all about the groundbreaking research of Positive Childhood Experiences and how this is going to transform the work we are all doing. >>Click here to register<< PACEs and HOPE Live Event Friday, March 26, 2021 Noon PT / 1pm...
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PHC6534: Mental Health Within the Homeless Population in Gainesville, FL
This specific program will target the homeless population in Alachua county specifically in Gainesville that utilize Grace Market Place and Saint Francis House. We will also offer support for those who participant by allowing health professionals (such as nurses and social workers) visit them and help in any capacity. The plan is to tackle the disparities within the Gainesville community in the homeless population. This will be achieved by providing the target population with social workers,...
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PHC6534: Using a Trauma-Informed Approach for Obesity Prevention and Reduction
Excess weight has been known to be a risk factor for several top leading causes of death, including heart disease, various types of cancer, type 2 diabetes, and stroke (Centers for Disease Control, 2018). Several studies have documented that adverse experiences during childhood, including exposure to sexual and physical abuse and witnessing violence, are associated with the development of obesity (Isohookana et al., 2016) and puts individuals at an increased risk of serious diseases and...
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PHC6534: "Heal PalmPRIDE" Self-dense for LGBTQ+ Domestic Abuse Survivors
Domestic violence is a public health issue in Orange County, FL. The rate of domestic violence reports in Orange county , FL is 587.9/100,000, significantly higher than the average in the state of Florida (Florida Department of Health, n.d.).. Reports estimate that LGBTQ+ populations may have a domestic violence rate (DV) of up to 25%, similar to heterosexual women (Huecker et al., 2021). Victims and perpetrators of domestic violence most often have been exposed to several ACEs (Huecker et...
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PHC6534 : Addressing the Impact of Trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Through A Mindful-Based Approach
ACEs are a major public health concern and are associated with an increased risk of poor health outcomes. Nearly 25% of children are exposed to a traumatic event and 1 in 6 adults reported that they experienced four or more types of ACEs (Adverse Childhood, 2020; Razza et al., 2019). This grant proposal is to implement a mindfulness education curriculum in schools to address this problem. In research studies conducted on trauma-exposed adults and children, mindfulness interventions have...
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PHC6534- From Farm to Family: A trauma-informed program for healthy meals and healing among low-income women in the Bronx
PHC6534- From Farm to Family: A trauma-informed program for healthy meals and healing among low-income women in the Bronx Overview Adverse childhood experiences (ACE) have been found to increase the risk for several chronic diseases, including hypertension (Gilbert, et al., 2010). These diseases increase the chance for adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes (Chang, Brown, & Nitzke, 2016). If not managed, gestational hypertension can lead to preeclampsia or eclampsia and an increased risk...
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PHC6534: Obesity prevention in high risk individuals using a trauma-informed approach
Obesity is a complex health problem that results from a combination of factors including genetics, physical inactivity, dietary patterns, and use of medications, among others (CDC, n.d.). It is a growing epidemic and has been recognized as a serious public health concern worldwide. In fact, according to the World Health Organization, worldwide obesity almost tripled between 1975 and 2016 (WHO, 2020). More specifically, more than 1.9 billion adults were overweight in 2016 and, of these, 650...
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University of Florida Graduate Public Health Course: Trauma-Informed Approaches for Individuals, Communities, and Public Health: Student Project Summaries
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. Together they created two online graduate courses that focus on addressing ACEs and creating trauma-informed and resilience-based programs from a public health approach. Peace4Gainesville and Peace4TheBigBend have also contributed to these courses. This post is intended to showcase some of the work of the...
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PHC 6534: Reducing the Long-Term Effects of Parental Divorce/Separation on Children and Teens
Abstract An individual’s childhood and teenage years are formative years that can affect the rest of their lives, positively or negatively. Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are traumatic events that a child could face such as abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction (CDC, 2021). Under the household dysfunction category is a parent’s separation or divorce. Divorce and separation are common and have short and long-term effects on the mental, emotional, and physical health of children who...
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PHC 6534: Identifying, Addressing & Supporting Middle School Students with Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): A Grant Proposal
Trauma-Informed Principles This program will ensure training for all clinical and non-clinical staff on SAMHSA’s trauma-informed principles (SAMHSA, 2014). These will also be included in the policies and procedures manual, to set the expectation for employee/staff behaviors. An unsafe environment can cause feelings of distress and potentially instigate re-traumatization; therefore, a safe environment will be prioritized at the mentorship workshops to ensure both students and mentors feel...
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PHC6534: Decreasing the Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) through a 4-H Youth Development Mentoring Program-Grant Proposal Summary
As a part of my graduate program coursework, I have had the opportunity to create a grant proposal addressing adverse childhood experiences with youth through the 4-H Youth Development Program. Below I have supplied my abstract, along with the public health framework, levels of the social ecological model and the trauma-informed principles that program will address. Please feel free to contact me with any questions. Abstract In the State of Florida, over 51% of children birth through age...
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PHC 6534: Youth Arrest Prevention: A Trauma-Informed Approach
Summary: This proposal utilizes trauma-informed principles to design an inter-professional pilot program that seeks to improve outcomes for children who have experienced at least one ACE (adverse childhood experience and have experienced a youth arrest). The social ecological levels that this proposal targets are the individual, interpersonal, organizational, and community levels and the determinants on these levels that contribute to youth arrests. Abstract: The proposed program is a...
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