April 2022

Summary : The grant focuses on a peer mentorship intervention for second and third generation Latinx youth living in Palm Beach County, Florida. In addition to the peer mentorship open to youth, parents are able to attend positive parenting classes to better inform themselves of generational trauma and ACEs and how to create a strong and positive foundation at home. Second and third generation Latinx youth are targeted in this grant proposal since US-born Latinx tend to have poorer health...

Summary: Eating disorder recovery is often treated through programs teaching individuals how to balance what they consume, learning to accept their body image, and how to prevent relapse. This proposed program aims to promote healing for the individual and their loved ones not by focusing on the eating disorder, but by providing coping skills for overall healing from trauma that may have triggered or come from the eating disorder. By teaching mindfulness through yoga, hosting support groups...

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are linked to poor health and well-being outcomes related to poor mental health, antisocial behavior, chronic stress, and chronic diseases in adulthood (Manyema et al., 2018). Research has shown that African Americans are disproportionally vulnerable to cardiovascular disease and chronic stress due to increased adverse childhood experiences and are least likely to access resources and strategies to cope appropriately to decrease their risk (Harris et al.,...

This grant proposal seeks to identify and treat substance use disorder (SUD) and its risk factors in middle and high school students in the Alachua County public school system who have experienced adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Students in Alachua County have a high prevalence of ACEs which increases the risk for SUD development. Alachua County public school staff will undergo training to learn and implement trauma-informed approaches as they will be involved in the initial screening...

Project Goals Goal 1: Increase awareness of ACEs and their effects on mental health in the target audience (adults 18 years or older) and clinicians. Goal 2: Understanding the extent of ACEs in the county and their connections with depression and depressive symptoms throughout the lifespan. Goal 3: Increase the rate and frequency of young people attending and utilizing mental and social health services in the community. Goal 4: Increase communication between healthcare providers and the...

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...

This grant proposal is focused on an intervention to prevent youth alcohol abuse in Monroe County, FL. Children and teens that have experienced at least one adverse childhood experience (ACE) are more likely to fall into alcohol dependency. In addition, Monroe County is the county that may have the highest rate of youth alcohol use. This proposed project involves shortening each regular class in a school day in public middle and high schools in the county such that about 45 minutes at the...

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...

Abstract Native American communities across the nation are known to suffer disproportionatly from the effects of historical trauma, concerning both overall well-being and academic achievement (Wiechelt et al., 2019). The Miccosukee Indian School in North Miami, Florida is a small institution dedicated to educating the community's Miccosukee children, and the focus of this intervention. The primary aspects of the intervention include the assessment of students' mental health using The Patient...

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can occur in a child’s life and are potentially traumatic while having the ability to make a long-lasting impact on that child through adulthood. They can be caused by many events such as substance abuse, neglect, household disfunction, etc. There is a very high prevalence rate of substance abuse in Alachua County households which exhibits the necessity for more access to interventions and aid to help prevent future ACEs from occurring. This project aims...

Overview: My proposed trauma-informed project aims to mitigate the impact of gentrification on mental health by building community and individual resilience. I chose this topic with both personal and professional interests in mind. Gentrification can be a traumatic experience for disadvantaged individuals, in particular African Americans, who constantly face pressures of insecurity, loss, and the exacerbation of other socio-environmental disadvantages (Anguelovski et al., 2021). In Alachua...

As our semester-long project for PHC 6534, we were tasked with putting together a sample grant proposal. I chose to focus on pets for domestic violence victims seeking shelter. Obviously, many people own pets. Concern for these animals can keep victims of Intimate Partner Violence from leaving their situation. Pets may be threatened, hurt or killed by abusers. Alachua County’s shelter already provides some capacity for sheltering families with pets, so my proposal is designed to build on...