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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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PHC 6534: Keep Our Children Safe: Building Resiliency in Children and their Families Living on Skid Row in Downtown Los Angeles
The “Keep Our Children Safe” project in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles is proposed as a potential avenue towards building resiliency in the children living in the area along with their immediate families. Skid Row is known for its high level of crime and drug use and exposure to these adverse childhood events (ACEs) and trauma have been associated with negative health outcomes later in life. Building resilience in the target population can prevent and/or reduce those negative health...
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PHC6534: A Trauma Informed Approach to Emotional Regulation as a Form of Mitigating Symptoms of ADHD in Children Exposed to Adverse Childhood Experiences
For my Master of Public Health class, I created a trauma-informed approach to address the relationship between ACEs and ADHD incidence. I have included the abstract, trauma-informed principles used, the socio-ecological model levels addressed, and the public health framework I used in the following sections. Abstract: It is incredibly important that the effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on health and wellbeing are understood so that adequate primary prevention measures can be...
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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: 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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PHC6534: Addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences through Trauma-Informed Youth Sports Programs
Overview Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are highly prevalent among children in the United States (U.S.) (Bethell et al., 2017). ACEs can affect brain development in children, which can lead to difficultly in learning, attention, and regulating emotions (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2020). ACEs disproportionately affect children that come from households experiencing poverty (Bethell et al., 2017). At three local Gainesville high schools, more than one in three...
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PHC 6534: Identifying and treating adverse childhood experiences to improve outcomes in the Minnesota Department of Health Asthma Home-based Services Program, a trauma informed approach
There is a three way reciprocal link between asthma, adverse childhood experiences and poor health outcomes later in life. Minnesota has a higher than the national average in childhood asthma cases and in the number of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). This grant proposal, utilizing all components of the SAMHSA's Principles of a Trauma Informed Approach as well as all social ecological levels of the Bronfenbrenner model, is aimed at secondary and tertiary prevention of asthma and adverse...
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PHC6534: “Schooling the School System” A Grant Proposal - Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevention and Sexuality Education for Students and Teachers in Alachua County through a Trauma-Informed School Program
This trauma-informed program provides formalized sexuality education to students in Alachua County Public Schools (ACPS) who have experienced adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), putting them more at risk to negative health outcomes including sexually transmitted infections (STIs) (Felitti et al., 1998). Current sexual education programs in Florida neglect valuable information on anatomical functions, hygiene, STIs, birth control, and even what constitutes healthy relationships: a pivotal...
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Multi-Level Public Health Resilience-Building Intervention: Knowledge is Power
As part of my coursework for " Building Resilience in Individuals and Communities for Public Health," I was tasked with creating a multi-level intervention utilizing The Social Ecological Model (SEM) as a foundation. The overall aim of this created intervention was focused on building resiliency and self-efficacy surrounding sexual health preventative behavior among 15–24-year-old Hispanic females in Gainesville, FL. Although the intervention addressed all levels of the SEM, it focused on...
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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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Multi-Level Resilience Building- LGBTQ+ IPV Survivors
For my Resilience Building course, I created a multi-level resilience intervention for LGBTQ+ survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV). IPV can lead to the infringement of human rights, physical injuries, poor mental health outcomes, and familial disturbances, making it a critical public health issue to address (Patra et al., 2018). This intervention was designed to be implemented in North Carolina, as it has some of the highest rates of IPV when compared to other states, with nearly 44%...
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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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Returning to the Ranks: A Multi-Phased Resiliency Intervention Project
The Returning to the Ranks (R2TR) program is a multi-phased program focused on readiness and reintegration of military members returning from combat deployments. R2TR seeks to not only help service members assimilate back into day-to-day life while simultaneously dealing with the aftereffects of combat stressors and ACEs, but also help families adjust to these members coming back as well. Additionally, with success of the first two phases, R2TR will reformat resiliency training on a much...
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Multi-level intervention: Positive Pregnancy and Postpartum Period during the Pandemic
As we all know nearly two years into the pandemic, COVID-19 is a viral, respiratory disease easily transmitted through direct contact via respiratory droplets (Centers for Disease Control [CDC], 2021b). It has become a global pandemic that has had a large effect in the local community home to the University of Florida - Alachua County. Unfortunately, there are many risk factors put individuals at increased risk for severe COVID-19. One risk factor that many people are not aware of is...
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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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The best way to start any meeting. Ever.
Following a brief mindfulness check-in, PACEs Connection staff meetings begin with the review of our Vision, Mission, and Values statements, as well as our Equity and Inclusion Statement. At a recent meeting, top row, L-R, Ingrid Cockhren, Carey Sipp, Donielle Prince, Jane Stevens. Middle row, L-R, John Flores, Porter Jennings-McGarity, Jenna Quinn, Gail Kennedy. Bottom row, L-R, Rafael Maravilla, Natalie Audage, Alison Cebulla, Samantha Sangenito. A couple of times last week I felt my body...
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Register now for "Building the Movement with Coalitions", presented by the Campaign for Trauma-informed Policy and Practice, PACEs Connection, and the National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives
Please register now at this link to reserve your spot. You’re invited to participate in Building the Movement with Coalitions, the first of eight remarkable workshops featured in the series, “ Building a National Movement to Prevent Trauma and Foster Resilience ”. The first half-day workshop will occur virtually on January 7th from 1-5pm ET/10am-2pm PT. It focuses on the history and future of the movement and building community-owned, trauma-informed, prevention-focused, and healing-centered...
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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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PHC6534: Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences Due to Substance Abuse
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can occur in a child’s life and are potentially traumatic while having the ability to make a long-lasting impact on that child through adulthood. They can be caused by many events such as substance abuse, neglect, household disfunction, etc. There is a very high prevalence rate of substance abuse in Alachua County households which exhibits the necessity for more access to interventions and aid to help prevent future ACEs from occurring. This project aims...
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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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Identifying and Treating Adolescent Substance Use Disorder Utilizing a Trauma-Informed Approach
This grant proposal seeks to identify and treat substance use disorder (SUD) and its risk factors in middle and high school students in the Alachua County public school system who have experienced adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Students in Alachua County have a high prevalence of ACEs which increases the risk for SUD development. Alachua County public school staff will undergo training to learn and implement trauma-informed approaches as they will be involved in the initial screening...
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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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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 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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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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PHC6534: Prevention of Anxiety, Depression, and Suicidal Thought and Behaviors in College Students affected by Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
In my grant proposal, a multi-level trauma based intervention program will be proposed to address the prevention and treatment of mental health problems among college students attending the University of Florida, in Alachua County who experienced at least one ACE. (SAMHSA, 2021) Trauma-Informed Principles Your Grant Will Utilize Four out of the six Trauma-Informed Principles will be built into the program to provide prevention and treatment services. (Feuer-Edwards, et al., 2016) This first...
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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 Addressing and Preventing ACEs in Low-Income Mothers and Their Children
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) affect 15.5% of individuals living in Florida, and Polk County has one of the highest percentages of residents reporting 2 or more ACEs. Studies show ACEs have negative health outcomes on children and adults but promoting safe, stable, nurturing relationships, and creating trauma-informed communities can lead to positive impacts on these individuals. To address the needs of these communities, we developed a trauma-informed program that aims to help women...
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PHC6534: Conversations About Consent
My program, Conversations About Consent (CAC), aims to significantly reduce the prevalence of sexual assault perpetration and prevent sexually violent behaviors towards women on the University of Florida’s campus via a web-based program applicable for all genders. CAC also strives to propagate personal resilience in survivors of sexual violence through their involvement in the implementation of the program. Participants will access the program through a password-protected web portal that...
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PHC6354: Opioid Abuse Prevention Utilizing a Trauma-Informed Approach
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with opioid use disorder and lead to intergenerational trauma and transmission of opioid use issues, which are disproportionately higher in the Tampa Bay area. This indicates a greater need for additional trauma-informed interventions and access to resources that address this prevalent issue. To address this opioid disparity in Tampa Bay, this program aims to support Tampa Bay adult residents and families with a history of experiencing at...
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PHC6534: Lowering Alcohol abuse on University Campuses
Summary: My Intervention aims to help students suffering from ACE trauma combined with alcohol abuse on college campuses through offering specialized group therapy opportunities as well as alternative activities to lower the overall dependence on alcohol. Trauma-Informed Principles Utilized in this Grant We aim to hit of the 5 basic trauma informed principles provided by SAMHSA; safety, trustworthiness & transparency, peer support, mutuality & collaboration, empowerment & choice.
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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: 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: The Art of Adaptation – Expressive Arts as a Protective Factor in Healing Trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
Trauma caused by adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) such as abuse, neglect, witnessing violence, and other traumatic exposures are associated with neurological impacts on the developing brain. These impacts are concerning to the brain’s responses to stress, with resulting impairments and functionalities leading to increased risks for depressive disorders in adulthood. To combat this issue, this proposed program seeks to provide preventative activities of expressive arts as a method of...
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A Trauma-Informed Approach to Preventing, Screening, and Treating Abuse in Youth Sports in Alachua County Public School District- PHC6534
My intervention is, " A Trauma-Informed Approach to Preventing, Screening, and Treating Abuse in Youth Sports in Alachua County Public School District". The intervention involves training the existing mental health staff that services all of the Alachua County Public School District schools in trauma and abuse in youth sports. Then, multiple required online module would be created, one specific to each school's athletic staff, one for the parents of the student-athletes, and one for the...
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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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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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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: Multi-Level Public Health Resilience Building Intervention
This blog post will describe a Multi-Level Public Health Resilience-Building Intervention focused on building resiliency in young women, 18-25 years old, who are affected by depression. The theme of the intervention is When the World Feels Like it’s Caving in, Reach Out . Depression affects over 250 million people worldwide (World Health Organization, 2020). This mental health illness involves feelings such as anxiety, worthlessness, sadness, and emptiness (National Institute of Mental...