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Rape and Sexual Assault |
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Created a poster presentation about rape and sexual assault targeted at minority teens, pre-teens and young adults. |
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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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Preventing pregnancy through abstinence education at school 17: A look at the PREP program of the Catholic Family Center/Catholic Youth Organization |
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An assessment of the PREP program used by the Catholic Family Center/Catholic Youth Organization in Rochester, NY and information on how it was improved. |
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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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Skin Cancer Awareness in the Migrant Population |
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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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Sports Nutrition Assessment and Information for High School Athletes |
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Intervention on the Varsity Boy’s Soccer Team at Spencerport High School to first determine their eating habits and then provide them with pertinent nutritional information regarding their food choices before, during, and after competition. |
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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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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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Promoting Avoidance of Tobacco, Alcohol and Drugs in the Adolescent Community |
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Protecting Our Varsity Athletes |
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TOP Teen Partners: Creating the Foundation for a Sustainable Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program |
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A program that provided additional sexual education to teens in an area of high risk pregnancy. |
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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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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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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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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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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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Raising Awareness of Eating Disorders Among Female Athletes and their Coaches |
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A presentation was developed, with an informational folder, awareness poster and video, to help coaches with spreading awareness and preventing eating disorders. One presentation was given to 17 coaches, one trainer and an Athletic Director. |
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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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Local Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Youth—A Survey of Health Concerns |
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The goal of this project is to provide education and awareness on health issues specific to LGBT youth so that they are better equipped to prevent, and confront, illness. |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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HPV Vaccine Awareness and use Among Practicing Obstetrician-Gynecologists in Western New York |
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The goal of this project is to survey Western New York area obstetrician-gynecologists to examine their knowledge, attitudes and practice pattern with respect to the HPV vaccine. The future goal is to use these data to identify deficits in physician knowledge and to implement practice change that facilitates vaccine provision by obstetrician-gynecologists to women that may not have contact with other medical providers. |
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