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PHC6937 Healthy Minds, Happy Faces Trauma-Informed After School Sexual Abuse Program
This project will take a new trauma-informed approach to providing therapy to youths who have previously or are currently experiencing sexual abuse. It utilizes a combination of creative, group, and individual therapies in an after-school based setting that has yet to be explored. It is the hope of this project that through creative and group therapy, the participants will learn how to positively express themselves and channel their emotions while also learning to communicate and build...
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PHC6937 Resiliency and Compassion Programs for Critical Care Nursing Staff
CONNECT is a campaign proposed to support critical care nursing team members by proposing to them methods to embrace evidence based resiliency practices. The World Health Organization recognized on May 28, 2019 a mental state of the "burnout phenomenon" that plagues the job force but has its highest prevalence in the nursing job force with nearly 20% turnover rate annually. Consequently, burnout can lead to a worsening occupational hazard - secondary traumatic stress or compassion fatigue -...
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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 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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When the Cross is On the Table
Susan Traylor says “When they see the cross on the table, they know someone has died.” The ‘they’ she is talking about are the many folks experiencing homelessness in our small community of Tarpon Springs, Florida. A few weeks ago, the cross was on the table for Terry. I knew him by sight but never knew his name. I observed him over the past few years quite often in a state that makes most people not only uncomfortable, but anxious and fearful as he argued with someone only he could see. He...
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PHC6937: Addressing and Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences through Targeted Home Visits and Social Support
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with several negative birth outcomes, as well as maladaptive health behaviors during pregnancy including smoking, substance use disorders, depressive symptoms and suicide 1 , 2 . Alachua County has higher than average rates of poverty, as well as preterm birth and low birth weight, representing a need for additional support and access to services 3 . To address these needs, this program aims to support pregnant women with a history of ACEs...
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An Early Childhood Development Expert Explains How Trauma and Stress Can Derail a Kid’s Life [sarasotamagazine.com]
By Cooper Levey-Baker, Sarasota, December 19, 2019 Mimi Graham has spent her life fighting for kids. She began her career in the late 1970s as a Head Start administrator before moving into the world of academia to study child development and advocate for public policies that improve the health of mothers and children. Today, she’s the director of Florida State University’s Center for Prevention & Early Intervention Policy, a position in which she advises government agencies and...
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Beyond ACES Summit: The Impact of Race, Culture, and Poverty Social Media Toolkit
The Beyond ACES Summit: The Impact of Race, Culture, and Poverty registration is LIVE! The summit theme is #MovingBeyondACES (adverse childhood experiences). This year is historically significant because it marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of enslaved Africans to Virginia. It was also a time that marked significant trauma. The summit touches on many different aspects of life and history. It was showcase the heartfelt talent of youth through dance and movement, music, theatre and...
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Florida Governor's Wife announces mental health aid for Panhandle after Hurricane Michael
Photo credit: Florida's Governor's Office The story below illustrates the urgent need to proactively build psychological and psycho-social-spiritual--Transformational Resilience--for climate change related disasters. It describes how the mental health impacts of these disasters often becomes most acute months after a disaster occurs, which is long after mental health first aid and other disaster mental health services have ended. Prevention is the only solution, and the focus must be on...
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HSC4930: Family First: A New Home
Family First: A New Home is a project that aims to create a home away from home that embodies the emotional characteristics of a healthy household environment for those to whom this environment is unavailable. Our project aims to create an after-school program for elementary school-aged children from single-parent households. Our goal is for children and parents from single-parent households to grow in capacities which are unavailable to them. This intervention aims to affect the...
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HSC4930: Trauma Informed Care for Alcohol Exposed Families in Gainesville Florida
Alcohol abuse in households across the nation is an issue deeply felt by those who are impacted. According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse Alcoholism, an estimated 88,000 people (approximately 62,000 men and 26,000 women) die from alcohol-related causes annually, making alcohol the third leading preventable cause of death in the United States. Furthermore, according to a 2012 study, more than 10 percent of U.S. children live with a parent who has problems with alcohol abuse and...
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Last week to register or apply for a scholarship--Creating a Resilient Community Conference
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...
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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: Grant Proposal for Implementing Trauma-Informed Curriculum in Alachua County Schools to Prevent Early-Onset and Severity of PTSD Symptoms in Children
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...
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PHC6534: Implementing a Screening Tool for Adverse Childhood Experiences in Elementary Schools
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...
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Higher Education’s Role in Promoting Racial Healing and the Power of Wonder (criticalimpact.com)
As protests erupt across the country and around the world demanding justice for George Floyd, a black man who was killed while in Minneapolis police custody, higher education must play a leadership role in addressing the issues at their center—racism and white supremacy. The devastating video that shows Mr. Floyd pleading for his life follows high-profile news reports of the killing of Breonna Taylor, a young black woman who was shot in bed by Memphis police engaged in a botched search for a...
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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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PHC6534: Promoting Resiliency in Children of Incarcerated Parents
Parental Incarceration is one of the incidents in life that can cause Adverse Childhood Experiences. There are many hidden consequences associated with parental Incarceration. The program aims to prevent the negative health outcomes by targeting the financial, social, emotional, and academic needs of the participants. Children tend to struggle with isolation, antisocial behavior, academic failure, psychological and economic hardships. We aim to serve the children living in Alachua county...
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PHC6534: Primary and Tertiary ACE's Prevention with new Mothers
Children are our future. The prosperity of our communities and society as a whole is conditional upon the success of our youth. Yet there are millions of kids growing up in dysfunctional households and/or exposed to toxic environments outside the home that impede their physical, mental, and social development. The best form of primary prevention lies with our expecting mothers or pregnant people with a uterus. By equipping soon-to-be parents with the tools and resources to ensure a stable...
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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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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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PHC 6534: Identifying and treating adverse childhood experiences to improve outcomes in the Minnesota Department of Health Asthma Home-based Services Program, a trauma informed approach
There is a three way reciprocal link between asthma, adverse childhood experiences and poor health outcomes later in life. Minnesota has a higher than the national average in childhood asthma cases and in the number of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). This grant proposal, utilizing all components of the SAMHSA's Principles of a Trauma Informed Approach as well as all social ecological levels of the Bronfenbrenner model, is aimed at secondary and tertiary prevention of asthma and adverse...
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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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ACEs Parent Handouts & ACEs One Pagers & Link to GRC (UPDATED 4/28/21)
We have so many wonderfu https://www.acesconnection.com/fileSendAction/fcType/0/fcOid/508261416693856202/filePointer/508261416693856263/fodoid/507698389112989542/Coping%20With%20Stress%20During%20the%20COVID-19%20Pandemic%20One-Pager_Accesible_English.pdf l resources shared by members. However, a few of you have asked me for help in retrieving them. Here's several of the most commonly shared ACEs handouts, info graphics and one pagers, with links to download. PLEASE share yours! I'm working...
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Building a Change: Creating connections, skills and better communities to reduce homelessnessin Los Angeles
Homelessness around the world is a sustained and prevalent concern. In Building a Change: Creating connections, skills, and better communities to reduce homelessness in Los Angeles, the population chosen to research and create an “intervention” for was young adults ages 18-24 who were homeless in Los Angeles, California. Homelessness is a persistent and pervasive issue with over four million people facing this (Morton et al., 2017). In Los Angeles, homelessness occurs at the highest...
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Building Resiliency In Nurses Giving It Their-all
When tasked to develop a program to build resiliency in a target population within a demographic area, I chose to target nurses in the United States. I couldn’t narrow down my geographical area because this is a nationwide problem. The southeast seemingly the worst. Being an ICU nurse for the past twelve years I have noticed a shift in priorities. Most of us became nurses because we are healers, we truly care about other people. Yet, in the span of my nursing career I have noticed that it no...
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RISE Creative Lab: Building Resilience through the Arts in NYC
One of the most critical public health issues to date is the mental health crisis that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated amongst people of color in the United States. Through our trauma-informed facility, RISE Creative Lab, our mission is to tend to the mental health needs of people of color in the vibrant NYC community. RISE Creative Lab stands for resilience-based, integrated social arts education. It is a trauma-informed educational arts lab that aims to bridge boundaries between...
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Growing Up: An intervention addressing childhood hunger
This semester, my peers and I were tasked with creating a multi-level public health and resilience building intervention. We were to select a topic, target audience, and ensure it connected with the CDC social ecological model. I chose to focus on childhood food insecurity in Guilford County, NC. My intervention is titled "Growing Up". This intervention uses innovation and community collaboration to ensure every child has access to nutritious foods. The primary focus is to connect business...
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Siempre Adelante, Nunca Atras (SANA)
The translation to the name of this resilience interventions is "Always Forward, Never Back" and the acronym SANA-- means HEAL. This intervention focus on building resilience within the Hispanic/Latino immigrant population in Immokalee, Florida of all ages. The rural town of Immokalee in South West Florida may look small, but it houses more than 20,000 farmworkers (Flocks, 2020). The farmworkers range in all ages, and many travel with their families. This community is also known to have...
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[The Grand Finale] All new Talks on Trauma featuring 33+ amazing experts, celebrities & healers [wisdomoftrauma.com]
We are just a few days away from broadcasting our all-new 7-day event October 4‒10 , which includes the Talks on Trauma Series Part 2 , a showing of the Wisdom of Trauma Movie, daily meditations, integration sessions, and artistic performances. Dr. Gabor Maté will be in conversation with 33+ trauma experts, physicians, authors, visionaries and artists. The talks will be exploring how trauma relates to parenting, chronic pain, the medical paradigm, the climate crisis, politics, spirituality,...
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2021 ACEs Awareness Campaign in Charlotte County, FL
Monday, November 15 th , 2021 marks the launch of Charlotte County’s ACEs awareness week to raise awareness about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and to highlight the importance of fostering Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs) in the lives of our children and youth. Last year, the Charlotte County Board of County Commissioners granted an ACEs awareness county proclamation; however, still in the throws of COVID-19 precautions and response, our community was unable to celebrate the...
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Need to fund your resilience initiative? Here’s how.
Chart is sample page from county-by-county funding allocated as part of ARPA. Information is available by clicking here. This is the first of several articles on the importance of any resilience-focused entity, including your PACEs Connection community, seeking out the people in your area allocating ARPA funding and asking for money. Organizations do not necessarily have to be 501 C-3 nonprofits to receive funding. Thanks to federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding to states in April...
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My positive childhood experiences tree
This is the third of three stunning illustrations showing how PACEs (positive and adverse childhood experiences) affected the family of Cendie Stanford, graphic artist and founder of the nonprofit ACEs Matter. This one looks at her positive childhood experiences. The day before her 16th birthday, Cendie Stanford’s older brother was shot and killed by a young man who, just two years earlier, had been her boyfriend. “I was heartbroken that two people I loved were out of my life forever,” says...
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PHC 6534: Addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences to reduce Asthmatic Episodes and the risk of Asthma in Children
Public Health Framework As stated in the Trauma-Informed Philanthropy guide, the field of public health takes an upstream approach to addressing health concerns with and community and or population 9 . Using a public health framework allows you to impact a population by focusing on a wider range of ways to address health and increase sustainability overall. With the use of multi-level programming, it will aid in bringing about systems change with policy, programming, and cross-cutting...
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PHC6534 Grant Proposal: Gestational Diabetes Trauma Informed Intervention
Summary: Pregnancy can be a difficult time for those that have experienced ACES. Being diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GD), can compound the ability to cope on a daily basis. GDM is associated with adverse outcomes for mother and baby (Herrick et al, 2021) and encompasses a wide range of glucose intolerance, including preexisting Type 1 (T1DM) or Type 2 Diabetes (T2DM), GDM in previous pregnancies and in a current pregnancy (Hartling et al, 2014). The highest at-risk are women...
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PHC 6534: The Interface of Environment and Biology: Prevention of Borderline Personality Disorder through a Trauma-Informed Lens
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is characterized by emotional dysregulation, unstable self-identity and interpersonal relationships, and self-injury. A vast majority will attempt suicide, with 1 in 10 completing suicide. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are prevalent in those with BPD – between 30-90% have experienced trauma. Due to these factors, there is a dire need for a trauma-informed, primary prevention intervention for patients with BPD. Through targeting pre-adolescent aged...
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PHC6534 A Trauma Informed Approach to Reducing Substance Abuse Use by Increasing Healthy Coping Mechanism for At-Risk Youth in Alachua County
For my grant proposal, I choose to address substance abuse among at-risk Alachua county youth with 3 or more ACEs as a negative coping mechanism. I developed a trauma-informed therapy intervention program that aims to educate the youth about positive coping mechanisms and foster social support among feel at-risk peers. Summary: Children who experience adverse childhood experiences and traumatic events are at a higher risk of partaking in negative coping mechanisms such as substance abuse and...
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Register now! Dr. Bruce Perry to discuss historical trauma and help launch new "Connecting Communities One Book at a Time" book study with his best-seller, "What Happened to You?"
Please join us on June 28 from 1:30-3:00 p.m. ET for a virtual conversation with best-selling author Bruce Perry. Ingrid Cockhren , CEO of PACEs Connection; Mathew Portell , PACEs Connections’ director of communities, and Perry, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, will engage in a conversation concerning historical trauma and Perry’s best-selling book " What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience and Healing, " which he co-authored with Oprah Winfrey. Please share this blog...
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PHC6451 Multi-Level Public Health Resilience-Building Intervention: Stop the Cycle-
This blog post will describe a Multi-Level Public Health Resilience-Building Intervention program focused on building resiliency with families who have experienced domestic violence. The name of the program is "Stop the Cycle: Strengthening Families Who Experienced Domestic Violence." The reason this program was created was due to the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs in the United States, one of which is domestic violence. According to the CDC, ACEs affect more than half...
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PHC6451: Fostering Youth Resilience: A Multi-Level Approach
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...
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PHC6451: You’re Not Alone: Building Resilience and Battling Substance Use By Supporting Parents
This post describes a hypothetical program that would target parents with a history of-- or current challenges with-- substance use disorder (SUD) or substance misuse. The presentation discusses the challenges adults have had with substance use in the United States, the impact adult use of substances has on the individual as well as their children, and how a comprehensive approach using the social-ecological model may address the needs of parents with SUD. The program focuses on the theme "...
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As We Transition to the Recovery Phase of Hurricane Ian “Look out for the Helpers”
The last 24 hours have reminded us of our individual vulnerability, as well as the vulnerability of our community and our state. Hurricane Ian is an example of a traumatic event in the third realm of ACEs that can bring about increased stress and strong emotional reactions. We acknowledge that this can be an incredibly challenging time for many and we encourage people to stay connected, reach out for help when needed, and support each other as you are able. This is how we can build...
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PHC6534: Building Resilience in Low Income, Early Childhood Families Impacted by ACEs and Trauma: A Grant Proposal
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and trauma have a profound impact on a child's physical, mental, and emotional well-being. The most recent census reported that 13.3% of residents in Osceola County, Florida, fall within the poverty level ( U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: Osceola County, Florida , n.d.). Low-income families are at higher risk of experiencing ACEs and trauma, which can lead to lifelong health consequences, that perpetuate cycles of poverty. Raising awareness and providing...
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PHC6534: Liaison Organization for Queer Youth Serving Infrastructure in Florida (LOQuYSIF) for the Development and Guidance of Queer Youth into Stable Adults
LOQuYSIF aims to connect existing resources in Florida – foster organizations, mental health services, academic counselors, career planners, and legal services – to serve queer youth facing homelessness. Primary outcomes for LOQuYSIF include reducing homelessness, increasing the number of foster homes for queer youth, reducing queer youth in the juvenile justice system because of homelessness, advocating for policy change, increasing self-efficacy, and improving emotional regulation abilities.
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PHC6534 Summary of Grant Proposal: Mitigating Adverse Childhood Experiences by Strengthening Economic Support for Families Through Universal Livable Wages
My grant proposal focuses on a trauma-informed and primary prevention program for ACEs by addressing poverty, a prominent risk factor for ACEs and trauma, through providing a guaranteed livable wage/universal livable income to impoverished families residing in Gainesville, FL. The program partners with the Central Florida Community Action Agency (CFCAA), a non-profit community-based organization working to reduce poverty and increase self-sufficiency among low-income families in multiple...