Tagged With "Central Florida"
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Baby courts: A proven approach to stop the multigenerational transmission of ACES in child welfare; new efforts to establish courts nationwide
The organization Zero To Three estimates that in the U.S., a child is taken into the child welfare system every six seconds. “Many of society’s most intractable problems can be traced back to childhood adversity. Being in the child welfare system increases the likelihood of more adversity and criminality. Baby court is a proven approach to healing the trauma of both child and parent, and breaking the cycle of maltreatment,” says Mimi Graham, Ed.D ., director of the Florida State University...
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Clergy Wholeness Project: Mental Health and Resilience for Clergy in the State of Florida
Hi All! The Clergy Wholeness Project focuses on the mental health of clergy in the state of Florida, intending to build resilience in this population. The communication campaign developed will assist in building resilience in clergy by educating and equipping clergy. The three materials provided are: 1. Blogpost: describes the beginnings of this project and how it reached where it is now. It also covers the popular and scholarly research that supports the project's efforts. 2. Infographic: A...
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Building Resilience Through Relationships: A Public Health Campaign for Building Resilience in Children in Foster Care in Marion County, Florida
Campaign Theme: The them for this campaign is “Building Resilience Through Relationship.” It is geared toward caregivers of approximately 635 children in foster care in Marion County, FL, including licensed foster parents, as well as relative and non-relative caregivers and those who have adopted through foster care. The purpose of the campaign will be to introduce caregivers to an evidence-based intervention for children with complex developmental trauma called Trust-Based Relational...
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PHC6451 Public Health Communication Project: Changemakers, A Trauma-Informed After-School Program to Build Resilience in Duval County Students
For this project, I created 3 communication materials which include an infographic, a blog post, and a TV commercial. This entire project is just an idea for a potential public health project which is based on a hypothetical grant given to the Florida Department of Health in Duval county. It is assumed that this grant has unlimited funds for the context of this project. The after-school program is called Changemakers. Changemakers is aimed towards a target population of children ages 4-17...
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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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FSU launches new level of professional certification on trauma and resilience (Florida State University News)
By Anna Printess, August 31, 2020, Florida State University News. Florida State University’s College of Social Work recently launched a new level in its successful Professional Certification in Trauma and Resilience online series. The curriculum series, developed by the Clearinghouse on Trauma and Resilience within the college’s Institute for Family Violence Studies in conjunction with the FSU Center for Academic and Professional Development , enables professionals to develop the knowledge...
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PHC6534: Promoting Resiliency in Children of Incarcerated Parents
Parental Incarceration is one of the incidents in life that can cause Adverse Childhood Experiences. There are many hidden consequences associated with parental Incarceration. The program aims to prevent the negative health outcomes by targeting the financial, social, emotional, and academic needs of the participants. Children tend to struggle with isolation, antisocial behavior, academic failure, psychological and economic hardships. We aim to serve the children living in Alachua county...
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ACEs Champion: The reintroduction of Michael Hayes — from ACEs awakening to ACEs community service
It wasn’t until his fifth prison term in a North Carolina county jail — his fourth conviction for driving under the influence — that Michael Hayes volunteered to take an ACE survey that changed his life. The 48-year-old father of six sons and one daughter had spent a number of years in and out of prison. During his last term, to get some time out of the cell where he spent 16 hours a day, he volunteered to attend a class offered by RHA Health Services, a nonprofit that incorporates the...
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Committed: How a 6-Year-Old Revealed Florida's Dysfunctional System of Baker Acting Kids [centerforhealthjournalism.org]
By JacqueLynn Hatter, Center for Health Journalism, December 13, 2020 The number of children who are taken for involuntary psychiatric evaluations in Florida increases every year. This is the first story in a five-part series about how the state's Baker Act affects children. Each day in Florida, about 100 kids are involuntarily committed for psychiatric exams under the state's Baker Act. The law was not designed for children, yet over the past few years, the number of minors taken for mental...
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Last chance to apply for a scholarship for the Creating a Resilient Community Conference!
Apply for a Scholarship In this new video PJI Director, Rachel Allen shares some exciting information regarding what you can expect at the upcoming Conference! Register for the Conference Conference Overview: The Peace and Justice Institute at Valencia College, the Early Learning Coalition of Orange County, the Creating a Resilient Community Network and Title Sponsor, Orlando Health, are excited to invite you to register for the Third Annual Creating a Resilient Community (CRC): From Trauma...
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PHC6534: "Heal PalmPRIDE" Self-dense for LGBTQ+ Domestic Abuse Survivors
Domestic violence is a public health issue in Orange County, FL. The rate of domestic violence reports in Orange county , FL is 587.9/100,000, significantly higher than the average in the state of Florida (Florida Department of Health, n.d.).. Reports estimate that LGBTQ+ populations may have a domestic violence rate (DV) of up to 25%, similar to heterosexual women (Huecker et al., 2021). Victims and perpetrators of domestic violence most often have been exposed to several ACEs (Huecker et...
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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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Best Practices, Internationally Respected Experts Featured at ACEs Central Florida Conference. Registration Closes Monday!
Donna Jackson Nakazawa ( photo by Marshall Clarke ), award winning science journalist and author of Angel and the Assassin , will join Dr. Mimi Graham , director of Florida State University's Center for Prevention and Early Intervention Policy , Andrea Darr , creator of Handle With Care, Captain Lovetta Quinn-Henry , from the Orlando Police Department and many more featured at the conference. Help your community move the needle toward a trauma-informed, resilient community by learning from...
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PHC6534: Obesity prevention in high risk individuals using a trauma-informed approach
Obesity is a complex health problem that results from a combination of factors including genetics, physical inactivity, dietary patterns, and use of medications, among others (CDC, n.d.). It is a growing epidemic and has been recognized as a serious public health concern worldwide. In fact, according to the World Health Organization, worldwide obesity almost tripled between 1975 and 2016 (WHO, 2020). More specifically, more than 1.9 billion adults were overweight in 2016 and, of these, 650...
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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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PHC6534-Grant Proposal: Addressing ACEs by Utilizing Early Intervention through Therapy and Online Trauma and Resilience Education
Hello! During my MPH Graduate program I have been able to create a grant proposal that I will be sharing with you all today. The program will focus on providing trauma informed mental health care to adolescents in Gainesville, Florida. Below you will see a summary of my grant proposal! Overview Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are traumatic event that may occur during childhood and are linked to a myriad of chronic health problems. Some outcomes are depression, heart disease, obesity,...
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PHC6534-Prevention of additional ACEs for foster families through the utilization of a Trauma-Informed Approach
Overview Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are potentially traumatic events that arise during childhood. ACEs are prevalent among foster children and could lead to poor health outcomes as well as negatively impact vital life opportunities. ACEs are a prevalent issue for foster children so there is a demand for extra support and access to services in this community. For instance, 42% of the individuals in the children welfare system studied experienced four or more ACEs and 27% experienced...
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PHC6534: Project Rise Up
This semester I had the privilege of writing a mock grant proposal in one of my master of public health courses. This grant proposal focused on a trauma informed approach to address the traumas and toxic stress experienced by inner city youth in Tallahassee, Florida; these experiences are attributable to the persistent violence and gang activity in specific areas. Abstract As reported by the Tallahassee Democrat (2020) the city of Tallahassee crime rates remained at an all-time high for the...
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PHC6534 Adverse Childhood Experiences and Criminal Justice System Involvement among Women in Alachua County, Florida: A Grant Proposal
Research has shown that individuals who experiences one or more adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are more likely to have a range of psychosocial issues across their lifespan. It is imperative that public health professionals address this issue from a trauma-informed background. My grant proposal provides a recommendation for an evidence-based intervention that would target incarcerated women in Alachua county and a few surrounding areas. Below I go into more detail about what...
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PH6534 Grant Proposal: Addressing the Spread of STDs Utilizing a Trauma-Informed Approach
Overview Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) have been associated with risky sexual behaviors which increase the risk of STDs and HIV infection. Due to high rates of bacterial STD and HIV infection in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, a trauma-informed project is proposed as a solution to address that issue. The proposed project aims to utilize a trauma-informed approach to prevent the infection and spread of STDs among people residing in Miami-Dade and Broward County, Florida who have...
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PHC6534: Reducing the Prevalence of Generalized Anxiety Disorder Resulting from Adverse Childhood Experiences by a Trauma Informed Resiliency-Based Approach
This grant proposal is an intervention which will seek to reduce the prevalence of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) onset from adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) by utilizing a trauma-informed resiliency-based approach. The target audience will be young adults (ages 18-25) living in Seminole County, FL. The program will first recruit a representative sample group of individuals, screen for GAD and measure participants’ ACEs score. The intervention itself will consist of licensed mental...
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PHC6534: Decreasing the Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) through a 4-H Youth Development Mentoring Program-Grant Proposal Summary
As a part of my graduate program coursework, I have had the opportunity to create a grant proposal addressing adverse childhood experiences with youth through the 4-H Youth Development Program. Below I have supplied my abstract, along with the public health framework, levels of the social ecological model and the trauma-informed principles that program will address. Please feel free to contact me with any questions. Abstract In the State of Florida, over 51% of children birth through age...
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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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PHC6534 Heart Disease Prevention Strategies for Trauma-Affected Minority Populations
My grant proposal is focused on an intervention which addresses cardiovascular illnesses in racial and ethic minorities with a history of ACEs in the United States. Project activities consist of informational nutrition classes concerning the preparation of low-sodium meals, physical exercise, mental health counseling, social group support, and heart health education sessions. While the program will touch upon each level of the McLeroy social ecological model to some degree, the community and...
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