TIP Lab receives additional funding from state legislature
The USF Trafficking in Persons Risk to Resilience Research Lab will receive additional support as outlined in the 2024-25 state budget that was signed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis last Wednesday. The budget includes $750,000 for the lab that will go toward the development and operation of a statewide human trafficking data repository. Read more.
| | |
CSD students learn from individuals living with dysphonia
Representatives from Dysphonia International shared their experiences of living with a voice disorder with Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) students. The speakers have either adductor or abductor spasmodic dysphonia and gave their perspective on what speech-language pathologists can do to best serve these patients. Read more.
| |
CFS associate professor edits new textbook on women's behavioral health
Department of Child and Family Studies (CFS) Associate Professor Bruce Lubotsky Levin, DrPH, MPH, along with Ardis Hanson, assistant director of research and education at the USF Shimberg Health Sciences Library, co-edited a new textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. The text, Women's Behavioral Health: A Public Health Perspective, examines women's behavioral health problems from a population or public health perspective. Read more.
| | |
|
These Tampa Bay-area projects were vetoed from DeSantis' state budget
WUSF
"The newly proposed joint project between USF’s College of Nursing and College of Behavioral and Community Sciences would have used state Opioid Settlement Funds to attempt to lower opioid abuse statewide and better respond to opioid overdoses."
| |
|
Lynn, V. A., Webb, F. J., Joerg, C., & Nembhard, K. (2024). Behavioral health disorders and HIV incidence and treatment among women. In A. Hasin & B.L. Levin (Eds.), Women's Behavioral Health: A Public Health Perspective. Springer. ISBN:9783031582929 | |
|
Park, N. S., Matta-Singh, T. D., Park, J., Rhee, M. K., Chung, S., & Jang, Y. (2024).
Dementia caregiving experiences among Korean Americans: Qualitative inquiry using the stress process perspective. Journal of Gerontological Social Work.
doi:10.1080/01634372.2024.2366259
| |
Defense of a Doctoral Dissertation | |
|
Title: Gone Smishing: An integration of decision-making and protection motivation in the context of identity theft victimization
Student: Taylor Fisher
Program: Criminology
Date: Thursday, June 20, 2024
Time: 10 a.m.
Location: SOC 351
| |
|
Title: An Evaluation of the Premack Contingency to Increase Physical Activity in Children with Intellectual Disabilities and/or Autism Spectrum Disorder
Student: Shreeya Deshmukh
Program: Applied Behavior Analysis
Date: Thursday, June 20, 2024
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Location: MHC 2414
| |
|
Kathleen Moore, PhD (MHLP)
AURORA Expansion Project Evaluation
Sponsor: 6th Judicial Circuit of Florida
11/30/2023-9/30/2027
Amount: $120,000
Pinellas Adult Drug Court (PADC) was awarded a four-year federal grant by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) titled AURORA Expansion Project (AEP), specifically targeting high-risk/high-need PADC participants who have been victims of sexual abuse, human trafficking and/or working in the sex industry, etc. The AEP will focus on a range of trauma and criminogenic risks/needs that can contribute to a cycle of relapse and drug use, incarceration, and ongoing recidivism. USF’s Department of Mental Health Law and Policy (MHLP) will conduct the program evaluation and examine how involvement in AEP will reduce recidivism and key outcome measures (i.e., substance use, mental health, trauma symptomatology, employment/education, and pro-social activities). The evaluation team will also be responsible for (1) reporting aggregated client-level performance and outcome data; (2) generating internal improvements to AEP; (3) initiating a performance improvement plan, if needed; and (4) reviewing actual program capacity compared to expected program capacity.
Opioid Response Assistance (ORA) Project Evaluation
Sponsor: City of Tampa & Tampa Police Department
10/31/2023-9/30/2024
Amount: $50,000
The Opioid Recovery Assistance (ORA) program is an extension of the Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Site-Based Program (COAP), which was awarded to the City of Tampa and the Tampa Police Department (TPD). USF’s Department of Mental Health Law and Policy will assist TPD with evaluating the implementation processes and outcomes of the ORA program. The goals of this program evaluation include: (1) examining ORA process components, (2) providing technical assistance to facilitate effective implementation and sustainability, and (3) evaluating ORA outcomes. The evaluation team, Kathleen Moore and Freeman Gerhardt, will be responsible for meeting with the ORA team on a biweekly basis, conducting qualitative interviews with key personnel and program participants, examining participant-level and agency-level performance measures (e.g., demographic characteristics, treatment linkages, criminal justice system involvement, overdose events, etc.), and generating reports to disseminate performance overviews to the ORA team.
| |
Upcoming Events & Deadlines | |
|
Trauma-Informed Care in Schools
(Part of the 2024 Project MABAS Virtual Summer Institute)
June 28 | 9 a.m. - noon
Virtual event
This presentation will provide an overview of trauma-informed care in educational settings. Participants will learn about the prevalence of trauma in childhood and risk and protective factors as well as how to utilize trauma assessment tools and to implement trauma-informed care approaches to addressing childhood trauma. As part of this training, participants will learn the importance of trauma-informed self-care, and developing a self-care plan. RSVP here.
| |
Adding News, Events, and Publications to the CBCS Website and Newsletter
If you have news/events or recent/upcoming publications you would like posted on the CBCS website and/or in the Communique newsletter, send the details and any attachments to CBCS Marketing (CBCSMarketing@usf.edu). Please send all newsletter submissions no later than Thursday for inclusion in the following week's newsletter.
Be sure to include all pertinent information (title, date, times, location, event description, and contact information) in editable digital text format. Articles included in the CBCS Communiqué may be disseminated to USF Media outlets and/or beyond.
| | | | | |
