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PHC6937: A Trauma-Informed HIV Prevention Intervention in a Diverse Population
This trauma-informed, culturally sensitive HIV intervention will focus on the diverse subset of the men who have sex with men (MSM) community who have experienced at least one adverse childhood experience (ACE). Current data suggests exposure to ACEs increases a person’s risk to contracting HIV; as such, our program will be based in resilience. Through education, peer mentoring, motivational interviewing, and therapy sessions, we will guide our participants toward safer sex practices. These...
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PHC6937: Grant Proposal - Educating Psychiatrists and Therapists about ACEs
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...
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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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PHC6534 Preventing Opioid Misuse During Pregnancy Utilizing a Trauma-Informed Approach
The quickly growing Opioid Epidemic is slightly killing thousands of Americans every day. Because of the increase of shame and legislative punishment, women who are pregnant are some of the most vulnerable and often result in exposing their fetuses to substances that can lead to permanent harm and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome when born. Through substance screening for patients at risk, increasing education on contraception, and increasing trauma-informed approaches of patient-facing staff...
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Thinking About Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Impacts Through a Science-Informed, Early Childhood Lens [developingchild.harvard.edu]
By Jack P. Shonkoff and David R. Williams, Center on the Developing Child, April 27, 2020 The COVID-19 virus is ruthlessly contagious and, at the same time, highly selective. Its capacity to infect is universal, but the consequences of becoming infected are not. While there are exceptions, children are less likely to show symptoms, older adults and those with pre-existing medical conditions are the most susceptible, and communities of color in the United States are experiencing dramatically...
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This is Us - Meet Peace4Tarpon -Shannon Krukonis - P4T BOD member!
Shannon has over 25 years experience working with children in preschool and after school settings. Originally from Boston, Shannon holds a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology as well as an Associate’s Degree in Early Childhood Education. Since moving to Florida in 2000, she has built a career working in the early intervention field with ages 0-5, as well as working with truant teens as a case counselor in child welfare and currently as the Behavior Specialist for the YMCA of the Suncoast.
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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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UF Graduate & Undergrad Public Health Courses: 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 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...
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UF Graduate Public Health Summer C Semester Course: Building Resilience in Individuals and Communities for 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 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:...
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UF Graduate & Undergrad Public Health Courses: Trauma-Informed Approaches for Individuals, Communities for 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 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...
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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 2 online graduate courses that focus on addressing ACEs and creating trauma-informed and resilience-based programs from a public health approach. Peace4Gainesville and Peace4 TheBigBend have also contributed to these courses. This post is intended to showcase some of the work of the...
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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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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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ACEs Connection's Inclusion Tool makes sure nobody's left out
We developed ACEs Connection's Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Tool — called the Inclusion Tool, for short — to ensure that ACEs initiatives across the world focus on being inclusive when forming a steering committee, recruiting leaders, providing education about ACEs science, recruiting members, or providing resources and services within their communities. The more inclusive your ACEs initiative is, the more diverse it will be, giving your initiative a real shot at achieving equity and...
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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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PHC6534: HIV Sexual Health Education Intervention Utilizing a Trauma Informed Approach
Adverse Childhood Experiences are highly associated with the development of sexually transmitted infections (Felitti, 1998). People who have experienced just one ACE have a 1.4 odds ratio of having an STI in their lifetime. Whereas those who have 4 or more ACEs have a 2.5 odds ratio (Felitti, 1998). The state of Georgia is not legally required to teach medically accurate sexual health education. In essence, compounding the existing problem of their high HIV incidence. This intervention aims...
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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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LGBTQ+ Patient's Bill of Rights
The examination room at a doctor's office can be a place fraught with instances of trauma for LGBTQ+ and gender non-conforming (GNC) people. From nonconsensual hormone therapy to a refusal to provide preventive therapy for HIV, queer and GNC people can encounter situations and reactions from health care providers that ultimately deter them from seeking care. This leads to worse mental and physical health outcomes for a community already at risk of suicide, HIV, and community violence. Using...
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Mapping the Link Between Life Expectancy and Educational Opportunity [childtrends.org]
By Renee Ryberg, Nadia Orfali Hall, Claire Kelley, Jessica Warren, and Kristen Harper, Child Trends, January 2020 In 2015, an average 15-year-old could expect to live to age 79. However, teens living in the 1 percent of neighborhoods with the lowest life expectancies could expect to live to 70—a lifespan nine years shorter. Educational attainment, a key social determinant of health, is one of the most powerful predictors of life expectancy. This association has strengthened over the past 20...
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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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PHC6534: Parent Education Program for Preventing Child Abuse
Summary There are four common co-occurring issues—parental substance abuse, parental mental illness, domestic violence, and child conduct problems—that are related to parenting and that lead to child maltreatment (Barth, 2009). Understanding and responding to these issues is vital for our parental education programming goals of preventing abuse and other forms of maltreatment. My program will be focusing its efforts in low-income communities where resources for parents may not be readily...
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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 6534 Increasing the availability of Syringe Exchange Services in Rural Florida: A Trauma Informed Approach
The opioid crisis presents a vital problem that needs to be addressed as a public health crisis because it increases the risk of the transmission of infectious diseases like HIV and Hepatitis C (CDC, 2018). In 2017, more than 70,000 people died from drug overdoses and of those deaths almost 68% involved a prescription or illicit opioid (CDC, 2018). According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, rural areas include some of the most vulnerable populations for injection drug use related HIV...
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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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PHC6534 "Addressing Trauma Informed Approaches to Human Trafficking"
Abstract Human Trafficking is a growing issue within a global and national context. Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with maltreated youths. The majority of American victims who become sexually trafficked are runaways and homeless youth. Florida is among the most prevalent states with a severely high number of human trafficking cases with Miami being a hub. Events like the Super bowl and other large-scale activities make Miami-Dade more susceptible to exploitation in human...
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PHC6534: Training Village Health Teams in Lukodi, Uganda on Trauma-Informed Approaches
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...
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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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Building Resilience for Victims of Domestic Violence (DV) in Rural Communities
My Public Health Communication Campaign proposal focuses on women living in rural communities that are/were victims of domestic violence (DV). This target population was chosen for a variety of reasons. Domestic Violence is a widespread and extremely common issue facing women. 1 in 4 women have experienced sexual or physical violence and/or stalking by an intimate partner. 41% of survivors experience physical injury, additionally, half of homicides committed against women are committed by a...
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Baby courts: A proven approach to stop the multigenerational transmission of ACES in child welfare; new efforts to establish courts nationwide
The organization Zero To Three estimates that in the U.S., a child is taken into the child welfare system every six seconds. “Many of society’s most intractable problems can be traced back to childhood adversity. Being in the child welfare system increases the likelihood of more adversity and criminality. Baby court is a proven approach to healing the trauma of both child and parent, and breaking the cycle of maltreatment,” says Mimi Graham, Ed.D ., director of the Florida State University...
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UF Graduate Public Health Summer C Semester Course: Building Resilience in Individuals and Communities for Public Health: Student Project Overviews and 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 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...
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The Intersection of Systematic Racism, the Pandemic, and SDoMH: Reality Mandates Change
Systematic racism is at the core of mental health disparities and social determinants of mental health (SDoMH).Upstream factors obstruct patient access to needed and appropriate assessment, timely intervention, with treatment for these populations often reflecting poorer quality, and ending prior to completion of treatment. COVID-19 and the recent pandemic have only amplified meso and micro-level gaps in care. considered, provided, and reimbursed.
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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: 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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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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PH6534 Grant Proposal: Addressing the Spread of STDs Utilizing a Trauma-Informed Approach
Overview Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) have been associated with risky sexual behaviors which increase the risk of STDs and HIV infection. Due to high rates of bacterial STD and HIV infection in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, a trauma-informed project is proposed as a solution to address that issue. The proposed project aims to utilize a trauma-informed approach to prevent the infection and spread of STDs among people residing in Miami-Dade and Broward County, Florida who have...
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PHC6534: “Schooling the School System” A Grant Proposal - Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevention and Sexuality Education for Students and Teachers in Alachua County through a Trauma-Informed School Program
This trauma-informed program provides formalized sexuality education to students in Alachua County Public Schools (ACPS) who have experienced adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), putting them more at risk to negative health outcomes including sexually transmitted infections (STIs) (Felitti et al., 1998). Current sexual education programs in Florida neglect valuable information on anatomical functions, hygiene, STIs, birth control, and even what constitutes healthy relationships: a pivotal...
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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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2011-2021—A decade of steady growth in ACEs and TI laws and resolutions in the states
In 2019 and 2020, dozens of states enacted nearly 60 laws and resolutions that reference adverse childhood experiences or trauma. In this post, there's an interactive map that shows them all.
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Multi-Level Public Health Resilience-Building Intervention: Knowledge is Power
As part of my coursework for " Building Resilience in Individuals and Communities for Public Health," I was tasked with creating a multi-level intervention utilizing The Social Ecological Model (SEM) as a foundation. The overall aim of this created intervention was focused on building resiliency and self-efficacy surrounding sexual health preventative behavior among 15–24-year-old Hispanic females in Gainesville, FL. Although the intervention addressed all levels of the SEM, it focused on...
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Digging Deep: Cultivating Resilience for Mental Health
Mental health is a serious problem among the inmates in our country. According to the Vera Institute of Justice, a premier criminal justice research and advocacy non-profit, mental illness is one of the most significant problems facing women in prison today (Subramanian, 2016). In 2006, the U.S. Department of Justice found that 31% of incarcerated women have a serious mental illness, while only 15% of men report the same (James, 2006).
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তুমি একা নও: You are not alone - A Multi-Level Public Health Resilience-Building Intervention
For my multi-level public health resilience-building intervention, I am designing an intimate partner violence (IPV) education and prevention program for the Bangladeshi community in Miami, Florida. This intervention will target all levels of the social-ecological model to build resilience by emphasizing accountability and advocating for systemic change at the societal and cultural level. The intervention aims to promote healing from adverse childhood experiences in order to work on...
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Multi-Level Resilience Building- LGBTQ+ IPV Survivors
For my Resilience Building course, I created a multi-level resilience intervention for LGBTQ+ survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV). IPV can lead to the infringement of human rights, physical injuries, poor mental health outcomes, and familial disturbances, making it a critical public health issue to address (Patra et al., 2018). This intervention was designed to be implemented in North Carolina, as it has some of the highest rates of IPV when compared to other states, with nearly 44%...
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Register now for "Building the Movement with Coalitions", presented by the Campaign for Trauma-informed Policy and Practice, PACEs Connection, and the National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives
Please register now at this link to reserve your spot. You’re invited to participate in Building the Movement with Coalitions, the first of eight remarkable workshops featured in the series, “ Building a National Movement to Prevent Trauma and Foster Resilience ”. The first half-day workshop will occur virtually on January 7th from 1-5pm ET/10am-2pm PT. It focuses on the history and future of the movement and building community-owned, trauma-informed, prevention-focused, and healing-centered...