Tagged With "Syndrome X"

Healing From Past Wounds – A Proposal to Give ACEs Training to Psychiatrists and Therapists in San Diego This grant proposal aims to train mental health providers on how to talk to their patients about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES). We will educate the public in this county about ACEs and we will improve the trauma-informed skillsets of psychiatrists and therapists. The field of psychiatry now focuses mainly on biological causes for psychological complaints, at the expense of helping...

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...

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. 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 Summer C 2019 course “PHC6937:...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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,...

By Sara Gottfried, Dr. Sara Gottfried MD, July 13, 2020 I take respectful care of my patients regardless of skin color, but in the past few years, I’ve realized that is not enough. There are many sources of information that have influenced me. Conversations, particularly a recent interview with integrative physician Andrea Pennington MD. Books, mentioned in this article, including How to Be an Antiracist by Boston University Professor Ibram X. Kendi and founder of the Antiracism Center for...

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. Online graduate courses were developed that focused on trauma-informed and resilience-based public health. The work of graduate students in the course PHC6451: Building Resilience in Individuals and Communities for Public Health are showcased throughout the blog. The goal of this course is to...

My grant proposal focuses on the relationship between malnutrition and childhood ACE’s. My reason for picking malnutrition as my issue was because those who struggle with the condition often come from areas of low SES, poor areas, and low economic opportunity. Malnutrition adds an extra level of burden because biologically it can cause issues with memory and cognition that can extend well into adulthood. The effect of malnutrition and the process of not having enough/the right foods to eat...

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...

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...

Hello everyone, as part of my graduate coursework, I've written a grant proposal that proposes a trauma-informed public health intervention for providing culturally appropriate mental health services for the Southeast Asian American community in Long Beach, California. Below, I give an overview of my grant and discuss applicable trauma-informed principles, levels of the social-ecological model, and public health framework. Overview Southeast Asian American (SEAA) communities in the United...

Overview/Summary: This grant optimizes the collaboration and engagement in partnerships with Tennessee’s Department of Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services and Tennessee’s Department of Education in the fight against household challenges with mental health and the trauma it can cause children growing up. For many years mental health has been a delicate topic to speak about and discuss freely in the United States. Many adults do not feel comfortable speaking about their personal...

Summary: Mental health diagnoses in childhood are increasingly common, with about 10% of youth between 5-16 years holding at least one diagnosis (Lowthian et al., 2021). The prevalence and the risk for mental illness increase with each cumulative adverse childhood exposure (Felliti et al., 1998). In Michigan, ACEs are widely prevalent, with nearly 20% of respondents experiencing 4 or more ACEs (Murad & Barth, 2016). Moreover, certain exposures pose greater risk for childhood mental...

My program, Conversations About Consent (CAC), aims to significantly reduce the prevalence of sexual assault perpetration and prevent sexually violent behaviors towards women on the University of Florida’s campus via a web-based program applicable for all genders. CAC also strives to propagate personal resilience in survivors of sexual violence through their involvement in the implementation of the program. Participants will access the program through a password-protected web portal that...

The “Break U.P.” campaign is a resilience-building program targeting women aged 19-34 years old living in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (U.P.) vulnerable to or affected by intimate partner violence. Intimate partner violence (IPV) refers to aggressive or abusive behaviors that are perpetrated within the context of a romantic or sexual relationship (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2021). IPV includes physical violence, sexual violence, stalking, and psychological aggression or...

Fostering Youth Resilience is a public health resilience building intervention that utilizes a multi-level approach. The focus is to build resilience in youth in foster care who have experienced child maltreatment. Child maltreatment is a major public health issue that impacts 1 in 7 children (CDC, 2022). In consists of physical abuse, sexual abuse, psychological abuse, and neglect. Well-established outcomes associated with maltreatment include future abuse/violence perpetration, mental...

According to Beck et al. (2009) and Karsten et al. (2019), people with a history of ACEs, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and childhood maltreatment, are highlighted to have increased chronic pelvic pain (CPP) and pelvic floor dysfunction. Sexual abuse, violence, and childhood maltreatment events are reported to be linked to CPP, which is associated with various diseases and dysfunctions such as dyspareunia (painful sex), vulvodynia, interstitial cystitis, gastrointestinal disorders,...

The overall age-adjusted death rate in rural areas has been greater than that of urban areas over the last two decades (Garcia, 2017; Moy 2017). Alachua County reported the county experienced an age adjusted death rate of 764.8 deaths per 100,000 in 2018, about 80 more deaths than the Florida average of 679.4 deaths per 100,000 for the same year (Florida Department of Health, 2020). A confluence of predisposing and reinforcing psychological and socioeconomic risk factors at the individual,...

My grant proposal focuses on educating obstetricians and gynecologists about adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and trauma-informed care. Obstetricians and gynecologists (OB/GYN) lack clarity on identifying and addressing patients’ trauma symptoms and experiences (Nagle-Yang et al., 2022). Physicians using trauma-informed care during patient examinations can help promote mental health in patients and prevent re-traumatization in some (Hall et al., 2021). This program will host biweekly...

Food insecurity is a significant stressor in family households and a driving force to devastating health consequences in many populations globally; it is associated with health outcomes including obesity, depression, adverse mental health outcomes as well as poor sleep outcomes (Royer et al., 2022; Nagata et al., 2019). A trauma-informed intervention to reduce food insecurity in Los Angeles County would involve a trauma-trained and multidisciplinary team that provides three important...

Kansas City’s Black LGBTQ+ community is the most highly-impacted community for HIV health-related outcomes, including HIV diagnosis and being virally unsuppressed (KC-TGA, 2022). Bond et al. (2021) and Bertolino et al. (2020) indicate a relationship between HIV risk behaviors and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Black, Proud, and Strong (BPS) will use a trauma-informed Community-Based Participatory Research approach to assess ACEs within the Black LGBTQ+ community and to build and...

Maternal health is a significant public health issue in the United States. “Women in the U.S. are more likely to die from childbirth than women living in other developed countries” (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, n.d.). Unfortunately, mortality is just a small part of the issue. For every maternal death, there are up to 100 occurrences of Severe Maternal Morbidity. Severe Maternal Morbidity or SMM refers to complications and health conditions attributed to pregnancy, such as...

Emma Crall and Gabriella Grillo: According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, hurricanes and tropical cyclones have caused more fatalities and damage than any other weather disaster (n.d.). These destructive phenomena can have lasting, negative consequences on a community, resulting in deaths, injuries, and damage to property and infrastructure (Waddell et al., 2021). These consequences often displace communities from their homes. In the United States, 1,965 individuals...

Based on the epidemiological data, we can see that the United States has the highest number of COVID-19 in the world, with 13,386,255 cases. Furthermore, there were 8613,630 cases and 204,873 during the pandemic, while there were a total of 1529,691 cases and 29,313 deaths in rural areas (Diego et al., 2021). If left untreated, the number of cases and death will continue to rise, especially in rural communities since they have the lowest healthcare resources. For this intervention, I...

Successful health equity strategies must be inclusive, and focus on all marginalized and minoritized persons and their communities. Any lesser view will continue to yield a faulty health equity equation.

Even though teen pregnancy in the United States is declining, there is still 15.4 births for every 1,000 female teens from 15-19, including 100 teen pregnancies in Alachua, Florida (HHS, 2023). Teens who are most at risk of teen pregnancy mostly come from traumatic backgrounds, with many adverse childhood events or experiences such as physical or sexual violence, neglectful homes, poverty, mental health conditions (Shreffler, 2021 & Rubin, 1999). Teen pregnancy not only has negative...