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Hello All! Gender is a complex, social construct that can be damaging to adolescents when gender stereotypes are perpetuated. I wanted to begin a health communication campaign that begins a community conversation about gender and the gender stereotypes present in our everyday lives. I chose to promote this campaign with three items. 1. An infographic that is targeted towards adolescents to help them understand how how gender stereotypes can harm us personally and others around us. This...

New Study Examines State Lawmaker Perspectives on Addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences Released by Children's Trust of South Carolina

By Tia Taylor Williams, American Public Health Association, May 2020 Alarming disparities within the COVID-19 pandemic — such as higher hospitalizations and death rates among African Americans — are sadly predictable and highlight the urgent need to address the root causes of health inequities. APHA is hosting this four-part webinar series to give an in-depth look at racism as a driving force of the social determinants of health and equity. The series will explore efforts to address systems,...

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).

Summary Adverse childhood experiences (ACE’s) have been identified as being avoidable, costly, and the largest threat to population health at the global level (Bellis et al., 2019). Identifying, mitigating, and even preventing ACE’s from happening, is a current task at hand for public health officials. Trauma-informed approaches have been identified as useful strategies in dealing with ACE’s. This grant proposal focuses on mitigating and preventing ACE’s by tackling them at the level of...

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...