August 2022

Cultivating Resilience: An Agrarian Approach to Suicide Prevention for Rural Minnesota Farmers is a multi-level public health resilience-building intervention aimed at providing information and resources to all levels of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Social Ecological Model in rural Minnesota farmers and farming communities who are at risk of suicide. (CDC, 2022) Those that work in agriculture are at a 3.5 times increased risk of suicide (Reed, 2020) and suicide amongst...

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...

Embrace Health is a multilevel resiliency building program which aims to combat the detrimental health impacts of intimate partner violence. The program has components at each level of the CDC’s Social-ecological Model and targets multiple vulnerable populations within the Gainesville, Florida community. Intimate partner violence is a major public health concern which is present in every community, regardless of age, race/ethnicity, religion, country of origin, gender, or sexual orientation...

Suicide rates continue to be higher in the first responder professions according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Tiesman et al., 2021). First responders work as law enforcement officers, emergency medical services (EMS) professionals, firefighters, or emergency telecommunicators (dispatchers). Law enforcement and firefighters are more likely to die by suicide than in the line of duty (Tiesman et al., 2021). Even so, according to national resources, only 40% of firefighter...

The intervention that I developed for my final project was called Resisting Wildfires with Community in the Navajo Nation. Wildfires put Native Americans at risk for harm over 20% more often than the next highest risk demographic group, with a total of 42.2% of Native Americans living in high-risk areas (Muyskens et al., 2022). The Navajo Nation was selected as the priority population for this intervention because it is currently the largest and most populous nation in the US (Romero, 2021).

This intervention utilizes an evidenced based sexual health education program combined with trauma informed principles to provide a trauma informed sexual health education program to youth in foster care. Youth in foster care experience negative outcomes related to sexual health at a higher rate than youth not in foster care (Ramseyer Winter, et al; 2016), including higher rates of teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, as well as higher rates of transactional sexual encounters,...

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 "...

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...

Multi-Level Public Health Resilience-Building Intervention Hello, I would like to introduce a Multi-Level Public Health Resilience - Building Intervention program I have worked on for my MPH course PHC 6451 - Resiliency Building. This program is a multi-level public health intervention that focuses on the prevention of sexual violence on the University of Florida’s campus. Sexual assault is an important public health problem. Negative health outcomes of sexual assault include mental health...

This blog post will describe a Multi-Level Public Health Resilience Building Intervention program focused on building resiliency in children and their caregivers who have experienced adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). The theme of the program is “Building Strong Kids and Families: The Power of Resiliency” and the name of the after-school program for the children is “Club Resilience.” Adverse childhood events (ACEs) are traumatic events that occur before the age of 18 that significantly...

Survivors Against Sexual Violence is a multi-level public health resilience-building intervention aimed to reduce the prevalence and perpetration of sexual assault. The theme for this intervention is “survivor-centered, community driven approaches to end sexual violence”. The priority population is Native American women, ages 15-25 in the Pacific Northwest. To market this free intervention, ResilientU is partnering with Cowlitz Tribal Pathways to Healing , which is a program aimed...

This blog post will describe a Multi-Level Public Health Resilience-Building Intervention program focused on targeting BIPOC Youth Mental Health. Utilizing Social Ecological Model (SEM) prevention framework to craft interventions addressing mental health disparities and access to treatment for Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) youth populations (CDC, 2022). Mental health does not discriminate and is currently affecting BIPOC youth, according to Mental Health America 1 in 5 children...