Tagged With "African Americans"
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PACEs Connection presents the "Historical Trauma in America" series
PACEs Connection's Race & Equity Workgroup will be examining historical trauma in the United States of America and its impact on American society in a series of virtual discussions. This series will highlight each unique region within the United States and outline how unresolved historical trauma has impacted every aspect of American life and directly shapes the socio-political landscape of today as well as the overall well-being of Americans. Discussions will make connections between...
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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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Roots of Resilience: an individual and community resilience building program in North Harlem, NYC
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have been found to increase the risk for several chronic diseases and poor behavioural outcomes. Traditionally, ACEs included factors such as abuse and household dysfunction, including having a parent who is incarcerated. Black individuals are disproportionality incarcerated in the US, which makes Black children particularly at risk for ACEs and their associated health outcomes (Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2021; Wildeman, et al., 2018). Expanded ACEs also...
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You're More Than READY-ness
Military spouses are an important part of the United States military services and essential to the Department of Defense (Keller et. al, 2018). A military spouse’s satisfaction in the quality of life afforded during their spouse’s service impacts service member retention rates (Lubens and Bruckner, 2018). Family dysfunction and distress can negatively impact a service member’s focus on the military mission and prevent deployment (Schneider and Martin, 1994). Military spouses are considered...
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Siempre Adelante, Nunca Atras (SANA)
The translation to the name of this resilience interventions is "Always Forward, Never Back" and the acronym SANA-- means HEAL. This intervention focus on building resilience within the Hispanic/Latino immigrant population in Immokalee, Florida of all ages. The rural town of Immokalee in South West Florida may look small, but it houses more than 20,000 farmworkers (Flocks, 2020). The farmworkers range in all ages, and many travel with their families. This community is also known to have...
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Walk Away from Obesity: A Multi-Level Public Health Intervention to Reduce Obesity Prevalence in Jackson, Mississippi
For my PHC6451 class, I created a hypothetical multi-level public health intervention, as the "Creative Director for ResilientU". This intervention is set to target individuals living in Jackson, Mississippi, the city with the highest obesity rates in the state of Mississippi and across the country (Oliver, 2017; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2019). Using the CDC's (2021) Social Ecological Model (SEM), I looked at each separate level (individual, relationship, community, and society) to...
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Trauma-Informed Early Childhood Initiatives [CTIPP]
CTIPP CAN Call - Trauma-Informed Early Childhood Initiatives - September 15th, 2-3:30pm ET/11am-12:30pm PT - Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/742183645 Meeting ID: 742 183 645 One tap mobile +19292056099,,742183645# US (New York) Please join us for next week's CTIPP CAN Call, which will focus on building mental well-being for infants, toddlers and preschoolers and the adults who care for them. This month's presentation will feature Drs. Kaitlin Mulcahy and Gerry Costa, and Kelly...
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Supporting Mental Well-Being through Child Care Settings - 9/30, 1:30-3:00 ET
A webinar offered by the Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) Thursday, September 30, 1:30 - 3:00 pm EDT Register today . Addressing the mental health needs of child care providers and children in care is vital in the face of the pandemic, a population-level traumatic event. CTIPP is offering a "plug and play" framework to ease the process of developing a continuum of training, reflective coaching, and consultation to build the capacity for supporting relational health...
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Learning with Indigenous communities to advance health equity [rwjf.org]
On Indigenous People's Day, we celebrate the values, practices and policies of Tribal Nations, which treat land and water as an ancestral gift to be preserved and protected. As we cope with oil spills, wildfires, and historic droughts, that worldview can help guide us to a sustainable, equitable, and healthy future. Now more than ever, we need that wisdom to help us reclaim the health of the earth > More RWJF resources: Connecting Indigenous Knowledge and Practices webinar : Learn how...
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A Trauma-Informed Approach to Vaccine Hesitancy (Sign On Letter Attached In First Line)
Please sign onto and share this memo supporting using a trauma-informed approach to decreasing vaccine hesitancy! Many of the challenges we are facing with vaccine hesitancy can be better understood by looking at the issue through a trauma-informed lens. The following memo has been developed with input from many of the clinical and academic thought leaders from the trauma healing field to offer supportive guidance to the Administration. To successfully address this challenge, we need to...
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A Trauma Informed Approach to Vaccine Fear
PLEASE SIGN ON TO THIS MEMO TO SUPPORT OUTREACH ALONG THESE LINES TO THE ADMINISTRATION! If the goal is to impact meaningful change, it might prove helpful to view vaccine fear through a trauma informed-lens. There is an intentional shift from the use of the word “hesitancy” and instead using the more specific and appropriate term “fear”. We are more likely to change that which we better define and understand. The following memo has been developed with input from an interdisciplinary team of...
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Need to fund your resilience initiative? Here’s how.
Chart is sample page from county-by-county funding allocated as part of ARPA. Information is available by clicking here. This is the first of several articles on the importance of any resilience-focused entity, including your PACEs Connection community, seeking out the people in your area allocating ARPA funding and asking for money. Organizations do not necessarily have to be 501 C-3 nonprofits to receive funding. Thanks to federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding to states in April...
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Kimberly D. Scott
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Register now! Building the Movement in the Child Welfare and Justice Systems February 4, 2022
February 4th, 2022 - 1pm-5pm ET/10am-2pm PT - Building the Movement in the Child Welfare and Justice Systems Making these sectors trauma-informed, prevention-focused, and healing-centered You’re invited to participate in the third of eight remarkable workshops featured in the series, “Building a National Movement to Prevent Trauma and Foster Resilience”. This half-day workshop will occur virtually and focus on promising practices in the child welfare and justice systems, as well as teach...
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Kelsey Witmeier
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Workshop REMINDER: Building the Movement with Populations with High Prevalence of Trauma - Friday @ 1pm EST/10am PST [npscoaliton.org]
We are excited to present the fifth workshop session this Friday and hope you can join us live! Of note, we are now offering participation certificates to those who can be with us live on Friday afternoons and to make that easier we have also decided to shorten this workshop session to 3 hours ! Please help us in #BuildingTheMovement by sharing this workshop series with colleagues and help us reach our next milestone of 3K registered. Day 5 - Building the Movement with Populations with High...
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PHC 6534: Building Resiliency in Children in Foster Care
Summary: This proposal utilizes trauma-informed principles to design an intervention targeted at helping foster parents and children in LA County. The intervention will educate foster parents on trauma-informed care and how to build strong relationships with their foster children. The foster children will work on resilience and relationship building in order to lessen effects of previous traumatic experiences. Statement of Need: Foster children experience trauma at a greater rate than...
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PHC 6534: Expanding Shelter Pet Care Capacity for Victims of Intimate Partner Violence: A Grant Proposal
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...
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PHC 6534 Exploring and Mitigating the Trauma of Gentrification in East Gainesville
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...
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Acquel Allen
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PHC6534- Assessment of Trauma in Miccosukee Indian School Students
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...
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PHC6534: Addressing The Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on African American Women By Preventing Cardiovascular Disease
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.,...
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PHC 6534 Grant Proposal: Teach a Teen to Fish - A Trauma-Informed Approach for Lifetime Fitness
Teach a Teen to Fish is a program designed to limit the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on youth who are at risk for obesity and adult poverty. The program aims to assess and identify students at risk and teach them skills to improve their chances of employment and a healthy lifestyle. Upon completion of the program, students will be able to sit for the physical trainer certification exam, lead group physical activity, and conduct healthy routines in their own life. This...
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PHC6534 - Addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences through Community Based Mentorship and Social Support for Second and Third Generation Youth: A Grant Proposal
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...
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PHC6534: Addressing Depression in Lee County Through the Lens of ACEs and Trauma
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...
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PHC 6534: Trauma-informed Approach in Nutrition Through a Healthy Exchange Program
Summary A trauma-informed project in Palm Beach County, Florida, is proposed as a solution to the public health issue of healthy eating, specifically the consumption of the proper amounts of fruits and vegetables and adverse childhood experiences, which can lead to unhealthy food choices and morbidity issues. This nutritional program will take a proactive approach to assist the target group who have experienced childhood trauma and are at risk of engaging in behaviors that lead to poor food...
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PHC6534 Grant Proposal: Gestational Diabetes Trauma Informed Intervention
Summary: Pregnancy can be a difficult time for those that have experienced ACES. Being diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GD), can compound the ability to cope on a daily basis. GDM is associated with adverse outcomes for mother and baby (Herrick et al, 2021) and encompasses a wide range of glucose intolerance, including preexisting Type 1 (T1DM) or Type 2 Diabetes (T2DM), GDM in previous pregnancies and in a current pregnancy (Hartling et al, 2014). The highest at-risk are women...
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PHC6534:Child Welfare and Sexual Health Education: A Trauma Informed Approach
Children engaged with the child welfare system, particularly those within the foster care system, are at particularly high risk of engaging in high risk sexual behavior. Youth in foster care have often been exposed to domestic violence, sexual violence, have been exposed to sexual incidents at a younger age, and have significant experiences of sexual abuse (Dowdell, et al; 2009). Engagement in high risk sexual behavior is a particularly significant area of risk for youth in foster care. Even...
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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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PHC6534: Targeting Mental Illness Through a Trauma-Informed Approach
The dose-response relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and mental illness is a public health concern. Findings from literature have illustrated the importance of early interventions in order to alleviate the effects of ACEs and improve children’s development (Felitti et al., 1998). The proposed grant seeks to explore ACEs in children aged 12-17 years old in Leon County, Florida. The provision of mental and physical resources at various levels of the social ecological...
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PHC 6534: Building Resiliency as a Protective Factor Against Adverse Childhood Experiences in Young School Aged Children: A Grant Proposal
Background Adverse childhood events (ACEs) are traumatic events that occur before the age of 18 that significantly affect the child’s physical, mental and emotional well-being. Some examples of ACEs include physical, sexual and emotional abuse, neglect, and parental incarceration. ACEs are linked to chronic health problems, mental illness and substance use problems in adulthood and can also negatively impact education, job opportunities and earning potential in adulthood (Centers for Disease...
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PHC 6534: Addressing Obesity and Trauma caused by Adverse Childhood Experiences: A Grant Proposal
For my semester-long grant proposal, I created an intervention to help overweight/obese individuals who have gone through adverse childhood experiences growing up. This intervention would take place in Alachua County, Florida. Participants need at least a score of three on an ACE questionnaire. Becoming overweight/ obese in adulthood is one of the many health consequences that can occur due to ACEs. My proposed intervention would work to help these adults work through their past traumas...
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Sexual Violence Prevention at the University of Idaho
Summary Sexual violence is an issue on college campuses across the nation, with 26.4% of women and 6.9% of men being victims of sexual violence (Association of American Universities, 2019). Sexual trauma can have many long-term mental and physical effects, such as post-traumatic stress disorder and greater risk of heart disease (Campbell et al., 2008; Senn et al., 2015). This indicates that sexual violence is something that needs to be addressed and prevented as much as possible. To prevent...
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PHC6534: Creating an accepting environment for children affected by mental health conditions
Summary: One in five people are living with the signs and symptoms of a mental health condition (NIMH, 2022). Many others support, live with, or love those living with a mental health condition. Living with a person that has a mental health condition is among the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) (Felitti et al., 1998). The children that live in homes with a parent or other family member that has a mental health diagnosis live with at least one ACE. We know that the more ACEs a person...
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PHC6534 - Building the Active-Duty Spouse Community to Prevent Adverse Childhood Events in Active-Duty Military Dependent Children
An ever-increasing number of studies show a correlation between the number of ACEs and devastating health and behavioral events later in life. To prevent these outcomes, we must prevent the occurrence of ACEs, which means directing prevention efforts at the parental level. An often-overlooked population is the military spouse community and the children of active-duty military members. With spouses who are often not co-located with their family and the transient life of forced moves every...
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Re: PHC6534 - Lowering Depression and Suicide Rates Among First-Year Residents at Shands Hospital
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June 15th CTIPP CAN Call - Toward an Integrated Science of PACEs
Are you interested in learning about new research that integrates the latest brain and social science? Then please join CTIPP’s next Community Action Network (CAN) call on Wednesday, June 15, 2022, from 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. ET / 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. PT: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/ 742183645 Meeting ID: 742 183 645 +19292056099,,742183645# US (New York) Q&A session after presentations REGISTER / ADD TO CALENDAR The conversation will explore the integrated science of positive and adverse...
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A Nurse-Led, Well-Being Promotion Using the Community Resiliency Model, Atlanta, 2020–2021 [ajph.aphapublications.org]
By Ingrid M. Duva, Jordan R. Murphy, and Linda Grabbe, Photo: Unsplash, American Journal of Public Health, June 9, 2022 Abstract The wrath of COVID-19 includes a co-occurring global mental health pandemic, raising the urgency for our health care sector to implement strategies supporting public mental health. In Georgia, a successful nurse-led response to this crisis capitalized on statewide organizations’ existing efforts to bolster well-being and reduce trauma. Partnerships were formed and...
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PHC6451 Multi-Level Public Health Resilience-Building Intervention: Stop the Cycle-
This blog post will describe a Multi-Level Public Health Resilience-Building Intervention program focused on building resiliency with families who have experienced domestic violence. The name of the program is "Stop the Cycle: Strengthening Families Who Experienced Domestic Violence." The reason this program was created was due to the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs in the United States, one of which is domestic violence. According to the CDC, ACEs affect more than half...
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PHC 6451: Building Strong Kids and Families: The Power of Resilience
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...
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PHC 6451 - Survivors Against Sexual Violence
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...
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Cultivating Resilience: An Agrarian Approach to Suicide Prevention for Rural Minnesota Farmers
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...
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How to Help Survivors of Extreme Climate Events (psychologytoday.com)
By Elaine Miller-Karas MSW, LCSW Building Resiliency to Trauma Psychology Today, September 30, 2022 Mental health can suffer after extreme climate events. KEY POINTS Mental health conditions exacerbated by natural disasters include post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety. After a disaster, the number of people needing assistance from the mental health systems strains or exceeds community capacity. There are simple strategies helpers can use to help survivors restore...
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MEDICAL and ACADEMIC NARROWMINDEDNESS BLOCK PROGRESS
As a clinician, researcher and policy specialist devoted to the prevention and treatment of the ill effects of child abuse and neglect (CAN) I read “Recommendations for Population-Based Applications of the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study: Position Statement by the American College of Preventive Medicine” (Sherin KM, Stillerman A, Chandrasekar L, Went N, Niebuhr DW. Recommendations for Population-Based Applications of the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study: Position Statement by the...
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How much would the NAS poverty reduction packages reduce referrals to CPS and foster care placements? Would they reduce racial disproportionality in child welfare? (nasonline.org).
Because of a collaboration with Columbia University and UW-Madison, we have answers to these questions. By Peter Peter Pecora, Casey Family Programs, March 17, 2023 - Overview The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) recently released a “ roadmap ” to reduce child poverty by as much as half through the implementation of a series of social policy packages. The aim of this study was to simulate the reductions in Child Protective Services (CPS) involvement and foster care placements that are...
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PHC6534: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Chronic Pelvic Pain and Adverse Childhood Experiences
According to Beck et al. (2009) and Karsten et al. (2019), people with a history of ACEs, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and childhood maltreatment, are highlighted to have increased chronic pelvic pain (CPP) and pelvic floor dysfunction. Sexual abuse, violence, and childhood maltreatment events are reported to be linked to CPP, which is associated with various diseases and dysfunctions such as dyspareunia (painful sex), vulvodynia, interstitial cystitis, gastrointestinal disorders,...
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PHC6534: Addressing Childhood Dental Disease through a Trauma-Informed Approach
Oral health is vital to systemic health and quality of life (Kabani et al., 2018). Despite Alachua County having Florida’s only state funded dental school, rates of negative dental disease are higher than other counties (Tomar, 2018). In a 2018 annual screening of all Alachua County public school third graders, between 20-60% had untreated dental caries (Tomar, 2018). In one school, over 20% of children needed urgent care due to clinical signs of infection or toothache (Tomar, 2018). Rates...
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PHC6534: Addressing Obesity in Alachua County Teenagers Using Trauma-Informed Practices
In Alachua County, teenage obesity rates have gradually risen since 2008, with nearly 80% of the teenage populace reporting low physical activity levels (University of Florida & Conduent Healthy Communities Institute, 2022). The response to this concern can be straightforward; encourage teens to get up, get outside, and get active. As simple as this may be, Alachua County teens are confronted with another grim reality about their community: community violence. Because Alachua County has...
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PHC6534: Utilizing Community Health Workers to Reduce the Impact and Occurrence of ACEs Amongst Alachua County Families: A Grant Proposal
Background Adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs, are defined as negative experiences that occur in childhood and affect children’s mental and physical health throughout their life (Felitti et al., 1998). While ACEs are prevalent among American youth, youth in Alachua County, FL experiences a disproportionate amount of ACEs (CDC, 2022b). In a study done by the Florida Department of Children and Families, researchers found that 69.2% of Alachua high school students had experienced at least...
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PHC6534: Breaking the Cycle: Cultural Sensitive and Trauma Informed Screening and Treatment for ACEs and its Mental Health Sequelae in an Asian American Community
The Asian American population has doubled in size from 2000 to 2019 and is estimated to reach more than 46 million by 2060 in the U.S. (Budiman & Ruiz, 2021). In North Carolina, the Asian American population has grown by 85% from 2000 to 2010, ranking the third highest rate among all states (Asian Americans in North Carolina, n.d.). Despite this growth, little is understood about Asian Americans and their experiences with trauma and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) due to the lack of...