The social ecology of childhood and early life adversity

M Lopez, MO Ruiz, CR Rovnaghi, GKY Tam… - Pediatric …, 2021 - nature.com
An increasing prevalence of early childhood adversity has reached epidemic proportions,
creating a public health crisis. Rather than focusing only on adverse childhood experiences …

[HTML][HTML] Food insecurity, neighborhood food environment, and health disparities: state of the science, research gaps and opportunities

A Odoms-Young, AGM Brown, T Agurs-Collins… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Food insecurity and the lack of access to affordable, nutritious food are associated with poor
dietary quality and an increased risk of diet-related diseases, including cardiovascular …

Financial health as a measurable social determinant of health

EB Weida, P Phojanakong, F Patel, M Chilton - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Objectives Financial health, understood as one's ability to manage expenses, prepare for
and recover from financial shocks, have minimal debt, and ability to build wealth, underlies …

Mapping “trauma-informed” legislative proposals in US Congress

J Purtle, M Lewis - Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental …, 2017 - Springer
Despite calls for translation of trauma-informed practice into public policy, no empirical
research has investigated how the construct has been integrated into policy proposals. This …

County-level socioeconomic and crime risk factors for substantiated child abuse and neglect

MC Morris, M Marco, K Maguire-Jack, CD Kouros… - Child Abuse & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Rates of substantiated child abuse and neglect vary significantly across counties. Despite
strong cross-sectional support for links between social-contextual characteristics and abuse …

[HTML][HTML] Trauma-informed financial empowerment programming improves food security among families with young children

P Phojanakong, S Welles, J Dugan, L Booshehri… - Journal of nutrition …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objective To determine how trauma-informed programming affects household food
insecurity (HFI) over 12 months. Design Change was assessed in HFI from baseline to 12 …

Re-evaluating expertise: principles for food and nutrition security research, advocacy and solutions in high-income countries

D Gallegos, MM Chilton - … journal of environmental research and public …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Drawing on examples from Australia and the United States, we outline the benefits of
sharing expertise to identify new approaches to food and nutrition security. While there are …

Trauma-informed Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): a randomized controlled trial with a two-generation impact

LG Booshehri, J Dugan, F Patel, S Bloom… - Journal of child and …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) has limited success in building
self-sufficiency, and rarely addresses exposure to trauma as a barrier to employment. The …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of a trauma-informed curriculum on depression, self-efficacy, economic security, and substance use among TANF participants: Evidence from the …

J Dugan, LG Booshehri, P Phojanakong, F Patel… - Social science & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Rationale Integrating trauma-informed peer support curriculum into the Temporary
Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program can help address caregiver trauma …

[PDF][PDF] Life after welfare: 2021 annual update

LA Hall, LL Passarella - 2021 - archive.hshsl.umaryland.edu
Since early 2020, Maryland families have experienced economic hardship, food and
housing insecurity, and waning mental and physical health due to the COVID-19 pandemic …