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Mapping GLO Project Homes in JOSANA – Using Geographic Mapping as a Tool to the Public Health Advocate |
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Project involved using a mapping software package, ArcGIS as a tool for community and public health advocacy in the JOSANA neighborhood and the Rochester community as a whole. |
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Pediatric Obesity: Promoting nutrition and Physical Fitness in a Rural Elementary School |
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Project aimed at educating 5th graders at Red Jacket Elementary School in Ontario County, NY about proper nutrition and exercise. At the time Ontario County was considered a medically underserved area by the U.S. Department of Health. |
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Asthma in the Jay-Orchard Street Area |
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Addressing the asthma problem in this area by developing sustainable and effective programs that target children with/without asthma, school, faculty, staff, and parents of children with asthma. |
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Healthy Eating Children's Cookbook |
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Cookbook of child friendly recipes and activities. It was tested with one group of children and there are many groups and schools who want the cookbook and/or someone to come in and teach the kids about healthy cooking and eating. |
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“Breathe Free” Teaching Smoking Prevention to Sixth Grade Inner City Students |
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Sixth graders at Public School 17 in Rochester, NY were taught, in a classroom environment, about smoking prevention. |
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Breastfeeding Practices and Attitudes Among Rochester City Mothers |
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A pediatrician and a midwife at the Anthony Jordan Health Center each said that they thought about 25% of new mothers from their facility (minority/low SES/less educated women) initiated breastfeeding, and that far fewer continued breastfeeding. In order to help improve breastfeeding rates among this population, this project sought out mothers and found out: 1-What are their attitudes/thoughts surrounding breastfeeding. 2-What factors are most important in their decision to breast or bottlefeed and 3-What do they think would promote breastfeeding in their community. It includes a questionnaire. |
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Medicine and Design |
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Outlines how to use aesthetics to improve the quality of life for pediatric patients. |
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Bike Safety – Primary Prevention |
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Project aimed at educating the Jay and Orchard Street neighborhood about bike safety |
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Attack on Pediatric obesity: Making Healthy Changes |
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Outlines project done in the Enrico Fermi School 17 in Rochester, NY focused on 5th grade students. The project was aimed at increasing awareness about healthy eating and exercise, in an attempt to reduce pediatric obesity. |
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E! Advocacy Website – Issue Focus : Health Care of Foster Care Children |
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Health-care needs and issues facing foster care children were researched and the E! Advocacy web page was created as part of the Pediatric Links to the Community (PLC) web page |
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Boy Scouts of America |
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Worked with the Boy Scouts of America at LDS church to promote a lifestyle that reduces at-risk behaviors among boy scouts |
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Promoting Healthy Snacks for Children |
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Outlines project where a series of workshops were given in downtown Rochester, NY aimed at increasing nutritional awareness among children. |
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Lead Poisoning Education Program and Program Evaluation |
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Childhood Obesity Education for AA Youth At a Local Health Fair |
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CHILD (Children helped in illness loss of death) |
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Pediatric Therapeutic Art Program |
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Skin Cancer Awareness in the Migrant Population |
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Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention in Monroe County |
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Saturday School #7 Program: Program Evaluation & Health Literacy Carnival Planning |
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Mi Libro de Cocina Muy Propio! |
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Project attempts to combat childhood obesity with the creation of a children’s cookbook, written in Spanish, filled with easy, healthy recipes. Project also includes a hands on healthy cooking demonstration for children and their parents. |
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Classroom Reentry Kit: Helping Children with Cancer Return to School |
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Study determining the level of coping upon the return to school in chronically ill children. Particularly concerned with children with cancer, student created a classroom re-entry kit to facilitate the adjustment through self-education and social support. |
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Health Literacy Carnival |
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Student put together a carnival at School #7 in Rochester in order to provide parents and students with information about healthcare resources, healthy lifestyles, and health prevention education. |
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Emergency Preparedness, Dirty Bombs, and Rochester |
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Project continuing research on how Rochester plans to respond and react in the case of a radiological attack on the city. |
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MyPyramid: Nutrition Workshop for Kids |
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A nutritional workshop for children grades 4-6 in the Saturday School Program, students with special educational needs and lower socioeconomic status. |
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Healthy Habits in School Aged Children |
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Students set up teaching sessions with 10 7th grade classes at Wilson Foundation Junior High School. Information included dental hygiene, nutrition and a healthy diet, and the importance of exercise and staying active. |
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Lead Poisoning Prevention: An Advocacy Project |
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Draft of a letter to the City Council to emphasize support from healthcare providers for inclusion of key evidence based components in the legislation. Project in conjunction with the Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning. |
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How to Protect Your Child from Falling |
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Project helped to inform parents about fall prevention at the Injury Free Coalition for Kids free crib event. Information included handouts, home safety checklists, and memo boards with important phone numbers on them. |
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Project FIRM (Family-Based Insulin Resistance Management) |
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Project FIRM targeted the underserved population of overweight and obese children or children who are at risk of developing/having metabolic syndrome. The intervention includes education about nutrition and exercise. |
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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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Candy Bars for Breakfast? Not My Kid! |
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Blood pressure checks and BMI's were calculated at a local health fair, while parents and children were educated about nutrition. Focus groups were later conducted with parents/caregivers to enforce healthy food choices. |
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Youth Anti-Violence Campaign |
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Partnerships with the OME, School 7, the Rochester Police Department, the Pirate Toy Fund, and Finger Lakes Restorative Justice, an anti-violence campaign was created and implemented at School 7. Additionally, the Rochester Medical Students Against Violence group was re-started to carry on this message in the future. |
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Smoke Alarms Save Lives! |
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A partnership was created between Strong’s pediatric clinic (AC-6) and the Rochester Fire Department to have free smoke and carbon monoxide detectors supplied and installed to lower socioeconomic families. |
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Automated External Defibrillator Awareness and Distribution |
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Intervention with Automated External Defibrillators (AED) decrease mortality associated with this condition. The target community of this project is a local church. The key partners are the American Heart Association, Team AED, church members, and a local cardiologist. |
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Smoking Prevention and Cessation in an American Muslim Sub-population |
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This project attempted to prevent smoking among American Muslim youth in Rochester through a modification of the Tarwars program. Cessation efforts were directed towards adult Muslim smokers. |
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Reach Out and Read |
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The Reach Out and Read program, an early literacy program that consists of giving brand new books at each well child exam from the ages of 6 months to 5 years. |
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Strong Stories: A Healthy Rochester TV Initiative |
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The aim is to create a TV program, medical student run-faculty supervised, that will utilize a popular media outlet in order to inform and educate through real patient stories. As a public health tool, the program will cover both current and pertinent health care topics/issues. |
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Improving Adolescent Health through Involvement with the Boy Scouts of America |
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This longitudinal CHIC project targets Boy Scouts aging 11 to 17 years old in the Brighton, New York area, and is designed to educate and implement healthy behavior. |
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Childhood Lead Poisoning Education |
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A DVD on lead education was shown to clients at Jordan Health Center, ABC, Healthy Start, and the BEST Program and distributed to other community partners. By targeting communities with the greatest burden of childhood lead poisoning, an important difference was made to families that need the most intervention. |
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Kidz on the go: Activity Book to Promote Physical Activity Among Elementary School Children |
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The Kidz on the Go activity book was implemented to encourage physical activity and healthy eating among elementary school children at risk of becoming overweight or obese. The target community includes low-income and minority children who receive their health care in the Pediatric resident clinics in the area. |
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Household Toxic Exposure Prevention |
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A health fair on household toxic exposure prevention was conducted in partnership with Strong’s poison control center and the Orchard Street Community Health Center for their families with children under 6 years of age. The fair was aimed at improving awareness and teaching safety techniques important for prevention of toxic exposures. |
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Pediatric Obesity: Promoting Healthy Hearts to Children and Families in Rochester City Elementary Schools |
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Project based on a need in the inner city community was for instruction and teaching of the parents and families of children at risk of obesity. The aims is to reach out to the children and families to encourage them to make healthy nutrition choices when cooking meals and buying snacks as well as promote active lifestyles for the whole family |
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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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Pediatric Obesity Promoting Healthy Hearts to Children and Families Rochester City Elementary Schools |
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A Healthy Heart Booth was created for the open houses at five Rochester City elementary schools. The open houses allowed the medical students to reach both elementary school children and their parents. |
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Increasing Awareness of Environment Tobacco Smoke Within the Monroe County Department of Child and Family Services |
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By partnering with the Monroe County Department of Child and Family Services (MCDCFS) and the Greater Rochester Area Tobacco Cessation Center (GRATCC), education about health effects of Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) was promoted. |
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Preventing Unintentional Injury |
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Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity and age. There are simple safety precautions people can take to reduce their risk of such an injury. Targeted population were visitors of Healthy Home in Rochester, NY. The project involved implementing an intervention using informational poster and safety checklists to address the issue. |
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Skin Cancer Prevention Through Education and Advocacy for Pediatric/Adolescent Population |
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The goal of this community health improvement project is to target the pediatric and adolescent population and provide an educational intervention concerning the risks of sun exposure, tanning and sun safety. This was conducted through pairing with the Healthy Home. |
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Hoops for Health |
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The Hoops for Health after school program was created to target those children at greatest risk. With the help of coordinators at Quad A, a partnership was created with students at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and School 34 staff, ultimately leading to the development of the Hoops for Health program in 2003. |
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Food, Fitness & Fun |
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The aim of this project is to educate children in fourth-sixth grade about diet and exercise and hopefully to have fun while battling pediatric obesity. With the help of a graphic designer in the community, computerized educational modules were created on pediatric obesity that can be implemented into any health class around the country, provided that there are computers available. |
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Improving Children's and Adolescents' Health Through Free Sports Physical Exams |
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Sustainable partnerships have developed over the years to help successfully perform free physical exams. While the project has received positive feedback, it is now important to evaluate if the program is indeed serving the intended target population. |
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Musical Motivation - Improving Child Behavior |
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A classroom needs assessment was conducted through participant observation and key informant interviews. The project included a musical curriculum designed to be implemented by teachers; and by continuing recruitment of community partners. |
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The Jordan Family Health Center and Their Reach and Read Program |
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The Reach Out and Read (ROR) program helps encourage parents to foster their child’s love for reading by providing them with the tools (books, educational resources, training) to do so in the hopes that a strong foundation in reading skills will help expand their minds and horizons and result in improved scholastic performance and with better education. |
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