Tagged With "Inclusion Tool"
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Grant Proposal PHC6937
My grant proposal requests funds to support activities for carrying out programs that build resilience (Zolkoski & Bullock, 2012). Also, the grant programs will build self-efficacy among subsidized housing recipients to eliminate intergenerational poverty. Programs that will provide mentoring – including proper nutrition and entrepreneurship training, as well as professional development are a primary focus. Poverty in Florida exists in concentrated areas (Williamson, Smith, &...
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How do these pediatricians do ACEs screening? Early adopters tell all.
Last week, three pediatricians — with a combined experience of 15 years integrating ACEs science into their practices — reflected on the urgency they felt several years ago that prompted them to begin screening patients for childhood adversity and resilience when there was practically no guidance at all. Along their journey , they accumulated a list of lessons learned for other pediatricians and family clinics to use. The three pediatricians participated in the ACEs Connection webinar,...
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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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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: Addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences in Justice-Involved Youth and Preventing Recidivism Through Targeted Assessments, Therapies, and Social Support
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) affect justice-involved youth at higher rates than the general population associated with delinquent behavior and recidivism (Abram et al., 2004). This trauma-informed project at the Alachua Regional Juvenile Detention Center is proposed as a solution to ACEs induced delinquent behavior and recidivism in justice-involved youth. Through education, therapy, and social support this program tries to mitigate the effects of ACEs and retraumatization, in...
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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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When Things Get Difficult, Turn To Wonder [Peace and Justice Institute at Valencia College]
Each week we will be posting one of the 13 Principles for How We Treat Each Other from the Peace and Justice institute at Valencia College. This week we welcome Principle number ten, "when things get difficult, turn to wonder." Turning to wonder in times of stress is a gift to ourselves and others. Pausing to wonder the circumstances which lead others to their choices is a powerful tool of compassion. #PJIPrinciples Click here to access all of the Principles available in English, Spanish,...
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Greater Richmond Trauma Informed Community Network, first to join ACEs Cooperative of Communities, shows what it means to ROCK!
In 2012, Greater Richmond SCAN and five other community partners hatched a one-year plan to educate the Richmond, Virginia, community about ACEs science and to embed trauma-informed practices. Eight years later, the original group has evolved into the Greater Richmond Trauma-Informed Community Network (GRTICN) with 495 people and 170 organizations. And they're just scratching the surface.
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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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PHC6534 Grant Proposal: Reducing the Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences in Hialeah, Florida Through a Home-Visiting Program and the Development of Social Support Networks
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with a number of negative physical, mental, and behavioral health outcomes throughout the lifespan, and are unfortunately very common. Children and families in Hialeah, Florida, a Cuban immigrant community in Miami-Dade County, are at a heightened risk of experiences ACEs due to widespread poverty and linguistic isolation. The proposed program is an attempt to address the needs of this community, reduce the prevalence of ACEs, 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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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: 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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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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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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Path to a Just Society: Our new infographic shares common language and an aspirational path.
Our version of a “Path to a Just Society” is our first attempt at creating a common language and identifying points along the path to a just society. The Race and Equity workgroup of PACEs Connection started the project in early 2021, following a staff meeting where we realized that we, our organization and the movement needed this. We think it can help all of us gauge where we are, where we want to be, and what’s needed to get to the next level of integrating practices and policies based on...
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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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PHC 6534 - Trauma-Informed Familial Resources for Youth in Mental Health Crises
Summary: Mental health diagnoses in childhood are increasingly common, with about 10% of youth between 5-16 years holding at least one diagnosis (Lowthian et al., 2021). The prevalence and the risk for mental illness increase with each cumulative adverse childhood exposure (Felliti et al., 1998). In Michigan, ACEs are widely prevalent, with nearly 20% of respondents experiencing 4 or more ACEs (Murad & Barth, 2016). Moreover, certain exposures pose greater risk for childhood mental...
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PHC: 6534 Reduction of Heart Disease for those with ACE History
People that have experienced adverse childhood events (ACEs) are at an increased risk for the development of heart disease. In order to reduce the risk, our goal is to begin screening those with an ACE history with regular cardiologist visits. In addition, we will be assessing lab values, daily weights, and blood pressure readings. This will be used as a tool for us to guide our medical interventions. In addition, we would like to provide education for patients in terms of healthy lifestyle...
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PHC 6534: Mental Health Youth Prevention Utilizing Trauma Informed Interventions and Community Support/Resources.
Childhood exposure to toxic stressors and traumatic events negatively impact the development of the child’s brain and increases the risk of poor coping skills and cognitive impairments (Daly, 2015). Adverse Childhood Experiences study found that exposure to one or more ACE’s highly affects children overall physical and mental well-being (CDC, 2021). Although 9 in 10 children receive regular medical care focused on physical concerns, only 1 in 3 pediatric professionals report having...
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PHC6534: Black, Proud, and Strong: Building Black LGBTQ+ Community Resilience to Improve HIV-related Health Outcomes
Kansas City’s Black LGBTQ+ community is the most highly-impacted community for HIV health-related outcomes, including HIV diagnosis and being virally unsuppressed (KC-TGA, 2022). Bond et al. (2021) and Bertolino et al. (2020) indicate a relationship between HIV risk behaviors and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Black, Proud, and Strong (BPS) will use a trauma-informed Community-Based Participatory Research approach to assess ACEs within the Black LGBTQ+ community and to build and...
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The 2023 Creating Resilient Communities Summer Curriculum is Now Open for Registration
PACEs Connection is excited to roll out our summer 2023 *CRC* curriculum dates. Members who complete the CRC will qualify for a fall 2023 fellowship program.
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Project B.R.I.G.H.T: Building Resilience in Gilchrist's Health, Together
The negative effect that Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE's) have on individuals is well described. Ample evidence also suggests that ACEs are associated with socioeconomic status. Additionally, socioeconomic status has been linked to poorer access and utilization of health care. Furthermore, specific adversities lead people to avoid seeking health care services, which can be compounded by lack of access or perceived barriers to access of healthcare.(Alcalá et al., 2017) As evidenced by...
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Early Relational Health Innovators Partner In Program Supported by PACEs Connection Cooperative of Communities Members in Twelve California Counties
Christina Bethell, Ph.D, MBA, MPH, founder of the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI), principal author of the groundbreaking study on positive childhood experiences, and creator of the free Well Visit Planner, among other innovations. Two internationally-respected leaders and innovators in complementary aspects of early relational health and childhood and maternal health equity recently launched a partnership they believe will benefit everyone from newborn babies and...
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PHC6534, Helping Migrant Children Learn English Utilizing a Trauma-Informed Approach
Project Summary No Child Left Behind Act, now known as Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015, requires schools to meet state accountability objectives for increasing the English-language proficiency of English Language Learners. Immigration is associated with adverse health outcomes such as increased risk for depression, anxiety, and PTSD (Cohodes, 2021). Migrant children lose what is familiar to them such as supportive social networks created by family members and friends when they migrate to...