Tagged With "Crime Report"
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PHC6534: ACEing Reproductive Planning
There are many associations between exposure to adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs, and negative health outcomes. The relationship between these outcomes and reproductive health affects not only gestational parents but their potential offspring as well. By identifying a gestational parent’s ACEs exposure, they can become informed of the possible negative effects before, during, and after pregnancy along with guidance for reproductive planning. By utilizing the Center for Women and...
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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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PHC6534: Universal ACEs Screenings & Intervention at IDEA Public Schools
Adverse childhood experiences are prevalent in the United States, yet those who report the highest number of traumatic events are individuals already more at risk to health disparities—minority, economically disadvantaged populations (Turney, 2020). ACEs affect many children based on surveys reported by adults asked to reflect on their childhood experiences. According to the CDC, nearly 61% of adults surveyed across more than half of the United States reported experiencing at least one type...
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PHC6534: Addressing Substance Abuse and ACEs among Hispanic/Latinx families in Alachua, FL
Hispanic/Latinx families, especially in the rural south, experience a myriad of ACES and issues with substance abuse or heavy alcohol consumption. According to the Florida Health Charts (2020), in Alachua County alcohol consumption (heavy binge drinking) has increased substantially from 19.9% of Hispanic adults in 2016 to 35.7% of Hispanic adults in 2019. WellFlorida Council and the Rural Women's Health Project will collaborate to create a summer long program through the local Iglesia...
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PHC6534: Addressing Mental Health among Women Experiencing Homelessness through a Trauma-Informed Lens
This trauma-informed program addresses mental health and increases self-defense capacity among women experiencing homelessness (WEH) in Alachua County, Florida. Homelessness and mental health are significant public health issues within the United States. These issues are further complicated by adverse childhood experiences, which have been linked to poorer health outcomes and risk for homelessness in adulthood. The intersection of homelessness and mental health among women is important to...
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PHC 6534: Combatting the Impact of ACEs on Placement Instability in Foster Care
In 2020, more than half a million children were served by foster care systems across the nation. Yet, the topic is seemingly nonexistent; unmentioned in the media, forgotten in political discourse, and even overlooked in the field of public health. The initial removal of children from their homes is itself a traumatic experience, in addition to whatever circumstances led to removal; an entire traumatized population is left to a system that kicks them out at midnight on their 18 th birthday.
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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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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: The Break U.P. Campaign - Resilience Building to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence
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...
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PHC6451: Embrace Healthy- A Resiliency Program Combatting the Effects of IPV
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...
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PHC6451: You’re Not Alone: Building Resilience and Battling Substance Use By Supporting Parents
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 "...
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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 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: 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...
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PHC6534: Supporting Youth affected by Gun Violence in East Gainesville through Arts Participation
Notably, living in a community with high rates of gun violence is associated with increased levels of trauma amongst youth (Rajan et al., 2019). Trauma is considered harmful social, physical, and/or spiritual impacts of an event on one's life (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration [SAMSHA], 2014). Given the community level trauma faced in Gainesville, it is important to increase community resilience especially amongst youth. Significant trauma in youth has been tied to...
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PHC 6543: Vamos Hablar: A mental health program utilizing a trauma-informed approach for Hispanic adults in Alachua County
Instances of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) such as experiencing violence, and abuse are connected to mental health illness in adulthood (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020). The Hispanic community is a heterogenous and growing population in the United States (U.S.). This group is estimated to be 30% of the U.S. population by 2060 (Colby & Ortman, 2015). Hispanics face social, legal, and economic adversities (Vega et al., 2009) which affect their overall health and...
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PHC69534: A Rural Safety Net Mobile Clinic To Address Excess Deaths in Rural Areas of North Central Florida
The overall age-adjusted death rate in rural areas has been greater than that of urban areas over the last two decades (Garcia, 2017; Moy 2017). Alachua County reported the county experienced an age adjusted death rate of 764.8 deaths per 100,000 in 2018, about 80 more deaths than the Florida average of 679.4 deaths per 100,000 for the same year (Florida Department of Health, 2020). A confluence of predisposing and reinforcing psychological and socioeconomic risk factors at the individual,...
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PHC6534 Summary of Grant Proposal: Mitigating Adverse Childhood Experiences by Strengthening Economic Support for Families Through Universal Livable Wages
My grant proposal focuses on a trauma-informed and primary prevention program for ACEs by addressing poverty, a prominent risk factor for ACEs and trauma, through providing a guaranteed livable wage/universal livable income to impoverished families residing in Gainesville, FL. The program partners with the Central Florida Community Action Agency (CFCAA), a non-profit community-based organization working to reduce poverty and increase self-sufficiency among low-income families in multiple...
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PHC 6534: Improving Mental Health Services for Victims of Trafficking to Reduce Incidence of Adverse Events for Their Children
Abstract Human trafficking is a growing threat worldwide that has resulted in numerous national and state sponsored programs to aid victims. Human trafficking leads to adverse health outcomes like anxiety, PTSD, panic attacks, mood and behavior changes, emotional and spiritual trauma, and increased drug, alcohol, and sexual abuse. This not only affects the victims but also victims’ family members, especially children, creating an environment of constant stress. This project is targeted at...
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PHC6534 Empowering Resilience: A Trauma-Informed, Holistic Approach to Reducing Obesity in African American Adults with Adverse Childhood Experiences
Statement of Need Obesity is a condition where there is excessive accumulation of fat primarily due to eating habits and lifestyle. Numerically, a body mass index (BMI) over 30 indicates an individual who is obese. A BMI between 25.0 – 29.9 and individual is considered overweight. A BMI between 19.9 – 24.9 is considered normal weight. Below 19.9 is considered underweight. According to the CDC, the prevalence of obesity in America is 41.9% between 2017 and 2020 (CDC, 2022). Non-Hispanic...
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PHC6534: A Trauma-Informed, Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Intervention to Increase Child Sexual Abuse Reporting
This proposed intervention in Gainesville, FL aims to build upon the lived experience of individuals that have experienced child sexual abuse, community members that have reported child sexual abuse, and professionals within the child welfare field to create a trauma-informed training program for use with individuals in the mesosystem of Bronfenbrenner’s Social Ecological Model (SEM) (Bronfenbrenner, 1977). The intervention design will use trauma-informed principles and community-based...
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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: Utilizing a Trauma-Informed Approach to Reduce Fentanyl Overdose in Cook County, Chicago
Fentanyl is an extremely dangerous synthetic opioid that acts like morphine but is 100 times stronger than morphine and 50 times stronger than heroin (CDC, 2022). In Chicago, Illinois overdose deaths increased by 533% from 2015 to 2017 (Chicago Department of Public Health, 2018). Additionally, in Cook County fentanyl use is associated with about 90% of fatal overdoses (CDPH, 2018). Trauma and Advanced Childhood Experiences (ACEs) can be contributing risk factors in opioid use. Utilizing a...
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PHC6534- Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in Guatemala Intervention: A Trauma-Informed Program
In 2008-09, the National Maternal and Child Health Survey surveyed women in Guatemala, and more than half of them reported experiencing some type of violence in the last 12 months. Guatemala has a long standing history of a patriarchal society that devalues women, even despite women’s rights advancements. The trauma these women endure each day take a toll on their health and their families, especially mental health. Our program aims to fill in these gaps by identifying women at risk,...
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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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PACEs Research Corner — May 2023, Part 2
[Editor's note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a web site — abuseresearch.info — that focuses on the effects of abuse, and includes research articles on PACEs. Every month, she posts the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only ACEs, PCEs and PACEs. Thank you, Harise!! — Rafael Maravilla] Domestic Violence – Effects on Children Makris G, Eleftheriades A, Pervanidou P. Early Life Stress, Hormones, and Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Horm Res...
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Strengthen Yourself, Embrace Resilience: Increasing cervical cancer screenings among Latina women in Florida by through education and open discussions.
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, it is estimated that about 11,500 new cases of cervical cancer are diagnosed, and 4,000 women will die of cervical cancer annually. Currently 8.4 women per 100,000 in Florida will be diagnosed with cervical cancer. While these numbers represent a significant decrease in diagnosis across all ages due to HPV vaccination efforts (such as campaigns to increase screening in children) and cervical cancer screenings (for women 21 – 65), it...
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The future starts with Mama: Improving prenatal care for expectant, Hispanic/Latina adolescent mothers in Chautauqua County, New York
Maternal health is a significant public health issue in the United States. “Women in the U.S. are more likely to die from childbirth than women living in other developed countries” (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, n.d.). Unfortunately, mortality is just a small part of the issue. For every maternal death, there are up to 100 occurrences of Severe Maternal Morbidity. Severe Maternal Morbidity or SMM refers to complications and health conditions attributed to pregnancy, such as...
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Building resilience in the mobile home community through neighborhood connections
Emma Crall and Gabriella Grillo: According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, hurricanes and tropical cyclones have caused more fatalities and damage than any other weather disaster (n.d.). These destructive phenomena can have lasting, negative consequences on a community, resulting in deaths, injuries, and damage to property and infrastructure (Waddell et al., 2021). These consequences often displace communities from their homes. In the United States, 1,965 individuals...
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Teens Take Charge - Reducing Substance Abuse through Resilient Adolescent Investment
Substance abuse is a persistent and growing health concern in the United States, with more than 45 million Americans age 12 and older meeting the DSM-V criteria for Substance Use Disorder in 2021 (SAMHSA National Survey of Drug Use and Health, 2021). Substance abuse is particularly insidious because it affects multiple factors of a person's life - their health, financial/economic resources, emotional wellbeing, and their relationships (National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2022; Daley, 2013).
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Continued Community Healing After Gun Violence Program
Over 352,000 students have experienced a school shooting since Columbine in 1999 (Cox et al., 2023). School shootings have also been on the rise in the U.S. in recent years, with 46 just in 2022 alone. This is the highest number in the history of the U.S., however, shootings in the first three months of 2023 significantly outpaced those in 2022 within the same time frame (Modan, 2023). While school shootings are mainly carried out by white male gunmen, students of color are most affected by...
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Improving the Mental Health of Women Who are Homeless: A Multi-Level Public Health Resilience-Building Intervention
Homelessness is a public health issue, as over half a million people in the United States are unhoused on any given night and homelessness is associated with physical and mental health comorbidities (Sleet & Francescutti, 2021). The public health issue of homelessness extends to my own community of Alachua County, Florida; the most recent Point in Time Survey, conducted by the North Central Florida Alliance for the Homeless and Hungry, conducted one night in January 2018, reported 641...
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Fighting Childhood Homelessness in the Orlando Metropolitan Area - CHOP
Hello! For my 'Building Resilience in Individuals and Communities for Public Health' Course, I was tasked with creating an intervention aimed at building resilience in a community focused on a particular critical public health issue. The issue I choose to focus on was childhood homelessness. In the United States, 2.5% of school-aged children are homeless (U.S. Department of Education, 2020). Florida is doing far worse in this health issue. Florida is ranked 40th in the country in childhood...
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Multi-Level Public Health Resilience-Building Intervention: Vaccination bring us closer
Based on the epidemiological data, we can see that the United States has the highest number of COVID-19 in the world, with 13,386,255 cases. Furthermore, there were 8613,630 cases and 204,873 during the pandemic, while there were a total of 1529,691 cases and 29,313 deaths in rural areas (Diego et al., 2021). If left untreated, the number of cases and death will continue to rise, especially in rural communities since they have the lowest healthcare resources. For this intervention, I...
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Bright Futures: Building Success In and Out of Schools
Approximately 61.2 million people aged 12 and older (that’s 22% of the population!) have used an illicit drug in 2021 (HHS, 2021). In Florida, 7.87% of 12-17 year olds have reported using a drug within the last month (NCDAS, n.d.). In South Florida, specifically, there have been significant increases in opioid overdoses and heroin-related deaths (Miami Dade County, 2019 and United Way, 2018). This shows that there is a need for prevention and education programs regarding substance use for...
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Health Equity and the Social Determinants of Health Are NOT Synonyms
Successful health equity strategies must be inclusive, and focus on all marginalized and minoritized persons and their communities. Any lesser view will continue to yield a faulty health equity equation.
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PHC 6534: Addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Improving Glycemic Control Among Pediatric Patients with Type 1 Diabetes in Baker County
Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease that occurs when the pancreas stops producing or does not make enough beta islet (insulin producing) cells for the body to function (CDC, 2021). While Type 1 Diabetes can be diagnosed at any age, it is mainly diagnosed among children, teens, and young adults, which is why it was previously referred to as Juvenile Diabetes (CDC, 2021). According to the Florida Department of health (2021), it was reported that 18,300 youth were living with Type 1...
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PHC6534: Nurturing Resilience Through Art Therapy for Adolescents in Alachua County
Project Overview Adolescents who have experienced multiple ACEs are more prone to reporting a range of mental health symptoms, suicidal tendencies, engagement in violent behavior, and substance use (Meeker et al., 2021). This is of particular importance for Alachua County since the rate of hospitalizations from non-fatal self-harm injuries in adolescents aged 12-18 years in 2022 was 140.8 compared to the state rate of Florida at 71 (Florida Health Charts, 2022). The project proposal aims to...