Tagged With "Public Health"
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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: Creating a Trauma-Informed Obstetric Practice and Promoting Resilience among Pregnant Women
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with an increased risk of preterm birth. About half of all Florida residents have experienced at least one ACE and 21-30% of Alachua County residents have experienced 2 or more ACEs (Bright et al). In 2017 in Alachua County, 11.7% of live births were less than 37 weeks gestation (FLHealthCHARTS), which is higher than the overall rate in Florida. The aims of this intervention are to build resilience in pregnant women with a history of ACEs...
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PHC6534: E-Cigarettes and Adverse Childhood Experiences in Alachua Florida
My grant proposal focused on e-cigarette addiction for adolescents within the Alachua County region in Florida. Recently there was a Alachua law change on cigarettes being sold only to people ages 21 and older (Sexton, 2014). However, there is a rise for e-cigarette use in adolescents ages 18 and under (Ikonomidis et.al, 2018). In fact, in 2018 alone, there were 24.8% of high schools students who use electronic vapor products at least once per day in a month (True Initiative, 2018). To...
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PHC6937: Elevating Black Male High School Students Towards Success Through Mentorship in Alachua County
According to data provided by the Florida Department of Education, the high school graduation rate among black students in Alachua county is 79.2%, the lowest amongst all other racial and ethnic groups. 1 Furthermore, black students from Alachua county fall below Florida’s graduation rate for their respective demographic group. 1 Further investigation into this disparity and what factors contribute towards it is critical as failing to graduate high school is associated with poorer health...
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PHC6937 Grant Proposal: Creating a Trauma-Informed Church
The Diocese of Palm Beach states as its mission “the Church of Palm Beach will strive to discern God’s will in satisfying the spiritual, moral, sacramental, educational, and basic needs of all people, with justice, respecting the dignity of each person.” Considering the landmark ACE Study by Drs. Vincent Felitti and Robert Anda (1998) which linked childhood adversity with health and well-being throughout the lifespan, and understanding that childhood trauma has been identified as the single...
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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 Grant Proposal: Healing Heavy Hearts- A trauma-informed support for grieving parents
Dealing with a loss can cause traumatic experience for anyone who is affected by it first or second hand. For parents, losing a child could be the most tragic and detrimental experience of their lives. Coping with such tragic loss can effects one’s mental and physical health depending on the resources available and received. Individuals who experience trauma like losing a loved one may face emotional as well as physical health concerns. Dr. Bea from Cleveland Clinic stated on ABC news that...
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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: Improving Resilience in Pregnant Women to Break the Cycle of Adverse Childhood Experiences: An Intervention in Putnam County, Florida
Demographic data for Putnam County, FL 1 indicates that residents likely carry an inordinate burden of exposure to adverse childhood events (ACEs), which can foster negative outcomes that cycle throughout generations. This proposed intervention will begin to break that cycle by providing eight weekly workshops at three locations for pregnant women throughout the county. These workshops will address the participants’ own traumatic life experiences while also helping them to protect their...
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PHC6937: Incorporating Trauma Informed Care into Adult Primary Care Providers and Emergency Medical Personnel
Only within the past two years have ACEs gained public recognition in North Carolina sparking program development to address and increase resiliency. Overall, North Carolina’s ACEs ranking is 30th out of 50 (WOCMH, 2017). It appears that little is being done in the medical field in NC to assist medical providers in becoming trauma-informed. By educating patients that childhood trauma may be an underlying cause of their health conditions, they can begin to heal by removing self-blame...
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PHC6937 Prevention and mitigation of Adverse Childhood Experiences using education for families in poverty
Prevention and mitigation of Adverse Childhood Experiences using education for families in poverty A grant proposal by Victoria M. Brase Poverty is a very prevalent problem and has its own risk factors for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Emotional and physical neglect have been shown to be associated with poor outcomes (CDC, 2016). It has been shown that long-term effects of ACEs are impactful in the nervous, endocrine, and immune systems, causing increased levels of depression and...
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PHC6937: Primary Level Prevention of ACEs Through Group Prenatal Maternal and Child Health Trauma-Informed Community Classes
In my grant proposal, I am asking for funds to create and fuel a trauma-informed prenatal care community class for pregnant women in Alachua, Bradford, Columbia, Putnam, and Union counties that focuses on primary level prevention of ACEs. In my proposal, I focus on the importance of incorporating the skills learned from implementing trauma-informed principles into every day life, and the importance of ensuring the baby arrives in a stable, safe, and nurturing environment. Enforcing primary...
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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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PHC6937 Resiliency and Compassion Programs for Critical Care Nursing Staff by Amanda Cook BSN, RN, CEN, UF Master's Student MPH SBS
Vicarious trauma and secondary traumatic stress can occur in populations of workers who are exposed to the traumas that others are experiencing. Critical care nurses caring day after day for suffering individuals, have a unique set of experiences that have an increased risk of developing compassion fatigue. Compassion fatigue has been well studied and mimics similarly to Post Traumatic Stress and is often called Secondary Traumatic Stress (Figley, 1995). High Adverse Childhood Experience...
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PHC6937: School-Based Resilience Building in Wayne County Youth
Having one or more Adverse Childhood Experiences increase the rate of developing heart disease, stroke, sexually transmitted diseases, and other negative health outcomes. Wayne County ranks 83 out of 83 counties in Michigan for excessively high, poor health outcomes (RWJF, 2018). Contributing to these numbers is a community that perpetuates trauma through a lack of resilience and health suffers. The funds will be utilized to bring together community partners in curriculum development that...
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PHC6937 Working Together to Improve the Community
This project is designed to engage residents in improving their community. A Community Coordinator will work with residents to empower them to speak out about problems in the community as well as to identify solutions. That Coordinator will also engage agencies, both public and private, that serve that community and assist them in hearing resident feedback and making needed improvements. This project will work with communities in the I-275 corridor, where rates of poverty, crime, domestic...
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Primary care providers as mentors to rural, low SES teens
The idea of this project is to utilize primary care providers who see low income teens in rural areas of northern Florida in order to build resiliency among these youth. Providers and teenagers will be encouraged to form mentor type relationships with one another to benefit the teenager. Increased frequency of visits would deepen the trust between the provider and patient. At these visits the provider can talk to their patient about health concerns, take the time to explain how they can...
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Promoting a Community Approach for Mental Well-Being in Our Littlest Citizens [chronicleofsocialchange.org]
By Andrea L. Lowe, The Chronicle of Social Change, June 10, 2019. Several years ago , my sister and I watched my 2-year-old nephew’s behavior change dramatically. He started wetting the bed, throwing temper tantrums and getting frustrated so quickly. In any other child, it might have been normal “terrible twos,” but in him we knew something was definitely wrong. At the time, my sister and her husband were getting divorced. Ultimately, we found out that my nephew thought it was his fault,...
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Public Health Campaign
We all know that walking is great exercise, but what if a walking group could build resiliency in communities and in individuals? I believe it can, if done correctly. This is what my final project focused on. Walking is beneficial in that it allows people to perform non-strenuous activities while still getting in shape. Groups are important in building friendships in communities, which we know in turn builds resiliency. And the walking group was born.. 1. I first began my project with a...
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Recording and slides now available for webinar on Florida’s Early Childhood Courts: Transforming Child Welfare
Information (recording, slides, and resources) on the June 6 webinar "Florida’s Early Childhood Courts: Transforming Child Welfare" is now available (and soon to posted in the ACEs Connection webinar section on the homepage). This well-attended and received webinar was sponsored by the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health and co-sponsored ACEs Connection and the Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice ( CTIPP ) Webinar Summary Every six minutes in the...
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Resilience for the Forgotten
Resilience for the forgotten is a rehabilitation program for the imprisoned. The Prisoner ACE Survey done in Wales in 2018, found that higher ACE scores are significantly more common in prisoners, particularly violent offenders when compared to the general population 1 . Additionally, this population with higher ACE scores are more likely to re-offend within three years of release, thereby contributing to recidivism rates, which are currently ranging from 22% to 58%, depending on the state...
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Service Animal Rehabilitation and Intervention for Detained North Florida Minors to Reduce the Effects of ACE’s
In 2015, Florida detained 37.6 juveniles per 100,000 between the ages of 10-17, which is comparatively lower than the National average of 50.1 per 100,000 children (Juvenile Justice, Geography, Policy, Practice & Statistics). Though this is lower than the national average, that is still a very significant number of young adults being detained for various crimes. The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice currently have some interventions in the hopes to prevent and detect risk factors...
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Sheltering in Place: ACEs-Informed Tips for Self-Care During a Pandemic
Millions of lives have been affected in unprecedented ways by the Coronavirus (COVID-19). We are all grappling with uncertainty—our daily routines interrupted, not knowing what is to come. For those of us who have Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), these times can be particularly distressing. At the Center for Youth Wellness (CYW), we know that childhood trauma can have a significant impact on an individual’s health and well-being – both physiologically and psychologically. Since the...
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Syndome X Patient Support by Valerie Christie PHC6534
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...
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The Importance of Training Youth Sport Coaches
A growing body of literature has shown that youth sport participation may serve a protective function for youth, particularly those from high-risk backgrounds (Hermens et al., 2017). For instance, sport participation is positively correlated with physical activity, life skill development, academic achievement, and social and emotional learning (Holt et al., 2011). Additionally, relationships with caring adults have a significant impact on healthy development, particularly during middle...
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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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Town Hall Meeting -Two Years after Parkland: Are schools safer, and at what cost?
Events that Make an Impact Two Years after Parkland: Are schools safer, and at what cost? Sponsored by the Orlando Sentinel and Valencia's School of Public Safety Thursday, February 13th Doors open at 6:30 pm Valencia College School of Public Safety 8600 Valencia College Lane, Orlando, FL 32825 We will address the safety measures in place and still to come, and what they’ve meant to the students and staff who now have to live with it. The panel will include parents, mental health...
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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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"Turning big waves into small ripples" campaign
My “turn big waves into small ripples” campaign focuses on creating a supportive high school culture with norms and social constructs that encourage students to cope with stressors and positively expressing their emotions. By encouraging a trauma-informed community within the school setting, students will be better prepared to cope with traumas and stressors post-graduation. They will also be capable of passing on this information to their parents, siblings, peers, and future generations.
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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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Webinar: Cultivating Our Best Selves in Response to COVID-19 | Tuesday, March 17 at Noon PDT
How to use the skills of the Community Resiliency Model (CRM) for self and others to be the calm in the storm as we face the unknown. Free Webinar Tuesday, March 17 at Noon PDT Speakers: Elaine Miller-Karas, LCSW Linda Grabbe, PhD, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC Zoom Webinar Registration Link: https://zoom.us/j/715837300 Additional ways to join are listed at the bottom of this post. About the webinar leaders: Elaine Miller-Karas is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Trauma Resource Institute and...
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Webinar—Florida's Early Childhood Courts: Transforming Child Welfare on June 6 (3:00-4:30 ET)
Please join this June 6 webinar on Florida’s early childhood courts (aka “safe babies courts”) hosted by the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health and co-sponsored by the Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice and ACEs Connection. Background: Every six minutes in the U.S., an infant, toddler or child under the age of 3 is removed from their homes for alleged abuse and neglect and placed in state custody through the child welfare system (Zero to Three).
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Webinar Oct. 17 — Integrating ACEs science in pediatrics: Early adopters share lessons from the field
An ACEs Connection webinar co-sponsored with 4 CA In 2017, California became the first state in the country to pass a law supporting universal screening for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in the 5.3 million children in the state’s Medicaid program. As clinicians around California await the state’s announcement of what this new policy will entail, many are wondering what it takes to integrate ACEs science in a pediatric practice. Meet Drs. Deirdre Bernard-Pearl, R.J. Gillespie and...
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Whole People Series & Study Guide (www.pbs.org)
There's a fantastic five-part series, Whole People , done by PBS, " spotlighting the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) through personal and community stories. It explores the long-term costs to personal well-being and our society. While much work needs to be done, there are many innovative developments to prevent and treat ACES. We all play a role in becoming a whole people." It's amazing. The five topics covered are as follows: Childhood Trauma Healing Communities A New...
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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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5 Tips for Supporting College Age Students' Mental Health [blogs.psychcentral.com]
By Andrea Schneider, PsychCentral, February 7, 2020 Did you know that the second leading cause of death in people ages 15-22 is suicide (ACHA, 2020)? Those are some sobering statistics. After a recent move from S CA to N Ca, I am currently serving in a new role in which I am the Lead Counselor on a college campus for this age range. Unfortunately, those statistics don’t lie. I am deeply involved in creating new programs, strategies, and direct clinical support for the students my campus...
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PHC6937: A Community-Based Resilience Intervention for the Native American Community in Taos, New Mexico
As evidenced in the literature, it is clear that Native American children experience more Adverse Childhood Experiences than other groups, including non-Hispanic whites [1]. Native American children are more than twice as likely to grow up in a household where one or both parents use drugs and/ or alcohol [1]. Additionally, NA children are more than three times as likely to have lived with a parent who has been incarcerated, and are seven times as likely to have been treated unfairly due to...
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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 & African Americans Community on ACEs Connection
ACEs Connection envisions a resilient world where ALL people thrive. We are an anti-racist organization committed to the pursuit of social justice. In our work to promote resilience and prevent and mitigate ACEs, we intentionally embrace and uplift people who have historically not had a seat at the table. ACEs Connection celebrates the voices and tells the stories of people who have been barred from decision-making and who have shouldered the burden of systemic and economic oppression as the...
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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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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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Cardiac Disease Prevention Using a Trauma Informed Approach
The Baker County Fire Rescue Trauma-Informed Community Paramedicine Program will aim to prevent cardiac disease by using the emergency medical services to bring primary care to patients’ doorsteps. In doing so, the emergency medical services will no longer simply respond to 911 calls but work proactively to prevent them from happening in the first place. This program will work through three actions: in home scheduled follow up visits involving patient assessment and chronic disease...