• Annual Survey: Thank you to everyone who took the time to fill out the faculty and practitioner surveys sent out this summer. Each participant's name was entered into a drawing for an Amazon gift card. Congratulations to Linda Treiber from Kennesaw State University and Christy Showalter from the Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence for winning a gift card!
• Final Report: Please be on the lookout for an email requesting more information. We need some specific information for our reporting requirements to the CDC for last year's grant cycle. Your help will be much appreciated!
• October's Brown Bag Lecture: A big thank you to Amanda Garcia-Williams, Emory doctoral student and former Summer Scholarship Recipient, for presenting her research to our community. We learned about the complexities involved when a college student has a suicidal peer and the importance of balancing the needs of both the suicidal person and their helper.
• Looking Forward: We will be temporarily scaling back some of our programs during our transition and regrouping period. However, our hope and plan is to continue to convene our community, while also maintaining core, basic activities. Shakiyla Smith opened up the conversation for our community to weigh-in and talk about what they would like to see offered in the future as we make these decisions. Please take the brief survey below to give your feedback and opinion.

2014 Summer Scholarships
Building the field

• SafeCare to Daycare: Matt Jackson is a doctoral student in public health concentrating in policy and management at Georgia State University. He submitted a practice-based proposal for his summer project focusing on preventing injuries in childcare facilities. Matt's goal is to adapt the SafeCare program (an evidence-based program intended to reduce child neglect and improve home safety) to the childcare setting. Over the summer he conducted a needs assessment with daycare center directors. 

• Victimized for Being Different: Young Adults' Recollections of Bullying in Middle and High School: Caroline McNicholas is a doctoral student at the University of Georgia in the College of Public Health. Her focus is on health promotion and behavior and her research topic is on bullying victimization of children with disabilities. Caroline conducted a mixed methods, retrospective study examining physical, verbal and relational bullying experienced by students with disabilities.

• Evaluation of an Emergency First Aid Responder Design and Training Program in Cape Town, South Africa: Daniella Coker is an MPH student at Emory in the department of Global Epidemiology. Her summer project took her to South Africa where she worked with Emergency First Aid Responders (EFAR) developing, documenting, and executing a series of workshops teaching PE coaches how to design and teach an EFAR curriculum to young students. 

• Safe to Sleep Program: The Safe to Sleep Program is working to create and disseminate fun board books. They are working on getting best practices for safe sleeping into every childcare facility. For more information, please contact Terri Miller.
• Child Occupant Safety Project: They are providing education and child safety seats to disadvantaged children in Georgia. For more information, please contact Wende Parker.
• Older Driver Program: This program is doing well with 15-20 actively engaged partners. They continue to meet every 3rd Wednesday of each month. For more information, please contact Elizabeth Head. 
• CODES Project: The Crash Outcome Data Evaluation Survey uses electronic data to track persons involved in motor vehicle crashes from the scene through the health care system to determine crash outcomes in terms of mortality, injury, severity, and health care costs. Their next meeting is Dec. 4th at 1pm. For more information, please contact Michael Bryan.
• Focus Areas: DPH is focusing on concussions, prescription drug overdoses, injuries in childcare, complex trauma, and Georgia's prescription drug monitoring system and upcoming injury legislation. For more information, please contact Carol Ball.

Below is our bi-monthly injury funding announcement of current government funding opportunities in intentional injury, unintentional injury, and other relevant categories.

 

Join us on January 8th at the Rollins School of Public Health for a lecture on "The Immunologic Link Between Intimate Partner Violence and HIV" presented by Dr. Ameeta Kalohke. 

When: 1/8/15, 12 - 1pm

Where: The Rollins School of Public Health

Claudia Nance Rollins Bldg., Room 6001

1518 Clifton Rd,

Atlanta, GA 30322

We Want Your Feedback
Short Survey

 

Please take a moment to complete this very brief survey which will help us make some important decisions in the coming months. We'd like to know what you value about the Center, specifically which events, trainings, programs, offerings you find most helpful.

Sincerely,