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Improving Urban Adolescent Health Behaviors Through Sports Physicals, Behavior Screening, and Counseling |
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This project was a continuation of an ongoing volunteer offering of the University of Rochester, targeting students within the Rochester City School District. The intervention includes providing free physicals to high school teens for eligibility in extra curricula activities. |
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Saturday School; Health Literacy and Health Modules |
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The goals of this project were to improve the ability for the students to become health literate through development of basic reading, writing, and math skills, and to address common health-related issues facing the students through health modules. |
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Empowering Women through the Sojourner House Health Lifestyles Project |
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This project was based at the Sojourner House, an agency which provides transitional housing to high-risk women. An evaluation component was instituted to an existing program, to assess changes in participants’ knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and feelings of self-efficacy. Key partners included AIDS Rochester, AHA, ACS, and Planned Parenthood. |
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Depression and Recovery from Opiate Addiction |
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This project consisted of designing an educational pamphlet about depression for a clinic that specializes in patients with opiate addictions. The pamphlet had general information about depression, but with a focus on issues specific to recovering users. |
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Children Helped in Illness, Loss, or Death: C.H.I.L.D., Inc. |
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Children Helped in Illness, Loss, or Death, Inc. is a community program offered since 1984 in the Greater Rochester area. The program serves families affected by illness or death of a parent or child. |
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Community-Based Approach to Mental Illness in the Vietnamese Community |
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A Vietnamese population of approximately 3,600 lives in Monroe County, and efforts to engage this community and their providers in culturally sensitive mental health education may increase the proportion of local Vietnamese with mental illness who seek and receive effective treatment. |
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