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Continued Promotion of Doyourproxy.org: A Campaign Aimed at Increased Awareness and Usage in New York State and Beyond |
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Project objectives include aggressive promotion of the website Doyourproxy.org amongst New York State residents as well as national promotion of this site as a state of the art tool for producing advanced directives nationally. |
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A Way to Promote Physical Activity in General Practice |
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Construction of a website to promote physical activity and teach persons how to train for a 5K walk/run. Project includes actual gathering of data to develop the website, actual website construction, and distribution of the website address and a brochure to physicians to give to their patients. |
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UR Well Expanding Coverage, Increasing Opportunities |
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The Medical student operated clinic is evaluated in this project to analyze the impact on the community that it serves. |
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Implementation of Breathalyzers in the Alexander St/East Ave. Neighborhood |
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The aim of this project was to implement a disposable Breathalyzer vending machine in the East Ave./Alexander Street entertainment district to reduce drinking and driving in Monroe County. |
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Improving the Availability of Disposable Breathalyzers |
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By targeting a group most at risk, adults in the 21-35 year old demographic, and a site with a dozen well populated bars, the project aims to increase the availability of disposable Breathalyzers for personal decision making in the Alexander Street and East Avenue neighborhood of Rochester, NY. |
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Be the Generation |
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The campaign purpose is using a focus group method as a means to actively obtain more study participants to assist in finding a vaccine for HIV. |
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Promoting Exercise in Type I and Type II Diabetics an Educational Workshop |
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An educational workshop focusing on exercise as a means to prevent and manage diabetes was held for patients at the Anthony L. Jordan Health Center. |
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Promoting Healthy Eating Habits among Type I and Type II Diabetics: An Educational Workshop |
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A nutrition workshop was organized and conducted for patients of the Anthony L. Jordan Health Center as part of a monthly Diabetes Education Group meeting. |
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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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Health Education for Heavy Alcohol Users |
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Partnerships were formed with the American Heart Association and Alcoholics Anonymous, and conducted an informal focus group determining the educational needs of a local AA chapter. |
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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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HIV Prevention and Testing Awareness in Adolescents Suffering from Chronic Mental Illness |
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This intervention was aimed towards educating adolescents and providing information on where free HIV testing is offered. The location for this program was at a youth conference at Strong Ties, an outpatient facility for individuals suffering from mental illness. |
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Goal 5K: Evaluation and Sustainability |
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The project involves increasing publicity for and ensuring the sustainability of a website that helps individuals increase their level of activity by encouraging them to work toward the goal of completing a 5K run/walk. |
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Assessing Barriers to Breastfeeding in Low-Income Obstetric Patients |
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The objectives of this project were to survey health care providers and low-income obstetric patients at an academic hospital-based women’s clinic to assess awareness, interest, and barriers to breastfeeding among this low income population. |
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Safe Ride Rochester |
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The goal of this project was to investigate the possibility of a Safe Ride program for the holiday season in Rochester. Partnerships were established with a number of local businesses and organizations who would likely support a similar effort in future 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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Nutrition and Wellness Group at Strong Ties |
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Strong Ties is a community-based program that provides a complete array of services designed to promote recovery among adults with severe mental illness. |
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Staged Based Behavioral Counseling |
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Staged Based Counseling (SBC) is a behavioral modification modality targeting clients at all levels of readiness to change. This project created SBC as an elective for medical students at the University of Rochester. The goal is to increase trained individuals in this method, and ultimately address the needs of the Rochester Community. |
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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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Reducing Risky Adolescent Sexual Behavior in a Suburban Faith-Based Community |
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In conjunction with Faith Lutheran Church ( Penfield, New York) staff, this project undertook a custom education program to reduce sexual risk among teens through education and partnership building with parents and physicians. |
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Blood Pressure Patterns among Ghanaian Immigrants Residing in the Bronx |
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In partnering with a Kidney and Hypertension Center of Rochester, along with the Kittay House Jewish Home of the Bronx, this community was reached through home/work visits for blood pressure screening and education. |
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Increasing Organ and Tissue Donor Registration |
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The aim of this project was to increase the number of people participating in the organ and tissues registry. |
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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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Knowledge & Skills Training for Young Adults with Mental Illness Attending Outpatient Program: A Module on Sexual Health |
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The project aim was to design an intervention which will provide some skills and knowledge training to young adult persons with psychiatric illnesses and living in the community around the areas of sexual health and healthy lifestyles. |
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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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UR Well Homeless Outreach |
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UR Well Homeless Outreach will extend the role of the UR Well Student Outreach project to allow medical students the opportunity to work with Rochester’s homeless population. |
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Organization of Medical Students in a Disaster: An Untapped Resource in Emergency Preparedness |
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Medical students attending the School of Medicine represent a skilled, willing resource to aid in a disaster, but are not included in the emergency plan of the affiliated hospital, Strong Memorial. This project aimed to pull together existing resources and leaders within the emergency preparedness plan to propose a system for student participation. |
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The Anthony L. Jordan Diabetes Collaborative: Partnerships for a Sustainable Future |
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The Anthony L. Jordan Health Center (AJHC), serving the northeast central quadrant of Rochester, NY, has developed individualized strategies to supplement diabetes care for its unique patient population. By coordinating area diabetes resources and community agencies, the author sought to enhance existing AJHC efforts with sustainable partnerships to ensure lasting benefits for its patients. |
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UR Well Eye Care |
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The UR Well Eye Care project (UWEC) has been built to support Project Eye Care (PEC) and to provide a link with the medical student population as well as to resources of Strong Memorial Hospital. |
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Barriers to Organ Donation |
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This project, sought to understand what the barriers to organ donation might be in this community, by doing key informant interviews among physicians, medical students, and the general population. Key partners included the Finger Lakes Donor Recovery Network, SMH Donor Council, and Rochester Tissue and Eye Bank. |
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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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Food Reaching Everyone Spreading Health (FRESH) |
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A survey of 41/52 convenient stores in southwestern Rochester, NY showed that 95% did not offer fresh fruit and 85% did not offer fresh vegetables. Montgomery Neighborhood Center, SouthWest Area Neighborhood, Foodlink, and the University of Rochester partnered to create a produce stand that would deliver fresh fruits and vegetables to this area. |
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The Hair Salon Project: Bringing a Lay Health Education Model to Tonja's Personal Touch Salon |
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This project aimed to introduce a lay health education model into a salon serving African American women in the Southwedge neighborhood of Rochester. This program was tested in a focus group and was well received by community members. |
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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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