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Culturally Informed Interventions for Military, Veteran and Emergency Service Personnel: The Importance of Group Structure, Lived Experience Facilitators, and Recovery-Oriented Content
Full text linkThere is little available research on what constitutes a culturally informed program to treat mental health conditions among military, veteran, and emergency services personnel. The current study presents the qualitative participant evaluations of a modified group Skills Training in Affective and Interpersonal Regulation (STAIR) program. Participants were grouped with either lived-experience facilitators or non-lived-experience clinicians for the program, and 93 textual responses to a series of qualitative questions were analyzed. The findings suggest strong support for the postulated three primary components of a culturally informed program: a group structure; facilitation by peers with lived experience; and functional, skills-based, and recovery-oriented content
Smart Cities: Harnessing Regional Innovation Networks and Global Collaborations
Full text linkInformation technology and computer science move at a lightning pace, both literally within the electromagnetic spectrum and figuratively as a professional field. This continuous evolution affects technical experts in their professional development, project managers in their timelines and ever-moving targets, and program founders who shape the initiatives themselves. No professional can reliably predict where the next technological innovation or new application of existing capabilities will occur. In response, experts employing information and communication technologies (ICT) in large systems must always consider timelines of future developments and adhere to structured management practices to meet deadlines. Comparative advantage in the market drives technology adoption and go-to-market strategies, yet practically no company maintains exclusive control of entire production lines—from hardware engineering to end-user implementation. Instead, the global supply chain within an industry vertical achieves market efficiency by developing hardware and eventually delivering goods or services to the user. These experiences shape practitioners’ approaches to smart city initiatives
Nordahl Grieg’s Friendship with Graham Greene
Full text linkThis article examines the extraordinary—but regrettably brief—friendship between Graham Greene and the Norwegian novelist, poet, dramatist, political activist, and war correspondent Nordahl Grieg.
In his diary Greene detailed his first encounter with Grieg in 1932, describing the Norwegian writer as “charming with his accent, his courtliness, his unexpectedness, which I could not follow closely enough.” Although Greene and Greig corresponded for several years, they didn’t meet again until after the German occupation of Norway in April 1940. Grieg fled to London, smuggling the gold from the Norwegian Bank out of his occupied home country. Immediately following his dangerous adventure, Grieg phoned Greene from the hotel and invited him over. During his London exile Greig was eventually allowed to join RAF bomber fighters as a correspondent. His plane was shot down by German bomber planes on a raid over Berlin, and three of the squadron’s four war correspondents were reported missing—among them Nordahl Grieg.
“Nordahl Grieg was an omen or a myth, and he remained a myth,” Greene later wrote of his Norwegian friend. “Even his death was to prove legendary, so that none will be able to say with any certainty, ‘In this place he died.’
Caring Beyond Health Care: Lessons Learned From a Community-Based Partnership to Reduce Hospital Readmission Among High-Risk Adults
Full text linkAs population aging increases demands on the U.S. health care system, strong public outreach regarding community supports for older adults and clear partnerships between medical and community-based services are needed to identify, serve, and yield better health outcomes, especially for the most vulnerable populations. In this exploratory observational study, we aimed to implement a collaborative pilot project involving a cross-sector partnership between a community-based aging services organization (Area Agency on Aging) and a medical center, with the goal of reducing hospital readmissions. The medical center screened low-income, high-need, community-dwelling adults for social determinants of health (SDoH) needs prior to hospital discharge and actively referred individuals for community support. We report on the development and feasibility of the pilot implementation of a standardized SDoH screening and referral protocol. We also explored the impact of the screening intervention by examining the frequency of hospital readmissions in the 6 months pre- and postintervention. Among 99 patients screened, almost half had SDoH needs. Patients who were referred and subsequently used community-based services experienced a significant reduction in hospital readmissions. We discuss lessons learned about communication, data collection, and staffing issues that can inform future research on community-level processes and changes that can benefit a growing and diverse population of adults with complex care needs. Clinical-community partnerships contribute to sustainable practices that benefit vulnerable populations by providing care beyond the traditional health care setting—and ultimately support patients with high needs in their homes and communities
Student Reflections on Working a Virtual Program in a Global Pandemic
Full text linkFor the past six summers, the Center for Community-Based Partnerships at the University of Alabama has hosted the Swim to the Top program at a local YMCA serving the Tuscaloosa, Alabama, community. The program offers instructor positions for undergraduate and graduate students attending the university. Due to the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, Swim to the Top had to go virtual in 2020. For the first time, instructors had to create content and connect virtually with the campers at the YMCA. The purpose of this article is to share and describe the experiences of three Swim to the Top student instructors—an undergraduate student, master’s student, and doctoral student—who participated in this virtual community engagement program during a global pandemic
Nuestra Tierra
Full text linkThe project took me about 6 days to finish, 2 days of planning and sketching and 4 days of adding color and details. What I want my project to represent is all the countries coming together and appreciating each other while being on their land. The sun and moon represent the guardians of each country watching over them as they run and play. The mountains on the right represent the Sierra Madre Mountains that mountains on the left represent the Andes Mountains, and the water in the middle represents the Caribbean Sea
Instagram Play Through
No full textThe definition of a farmers market is “a food market at which local farmers sell fruit and vegetables and often meat, cheese, and bakery products directly to consumers.” Within this definition there is both simplicity and connection. In deciding to create branding for my market, Atlanta Farmers Market, simplicity and relational connection were the values I wanted my designs to communicate. I have grown up with an appreciation for the hardworking vendors at farmers markets and the community a market has the ability to create. Maybe it’s just the romanticism of the mundane in films, or maybe it’s a reality of the flourishing environment created when people come together to share their passions with each other. Either way, my affinity with this environment has combined with my desire to create things that look beautiful together. This is why I chose to create branding for both the market as a whole and individual vendors of honey, flowers, and bread. I wanted all of the logos, business cards, posters, pictures to speak to their own vendor’s talents and individuality, and work well together to make a successful group under the market’s umbrella.
Throughout most of my work I am interested in the human experience, specifically in relation to the impact we have on each other, and how we move through change and dealing with our past. I have used Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop in combination with photography to create my work, and I have an appreciation for both the practical side of graphic design, like branding, logos, etc. and the artistic side of graphic design like collage.
My concept for this body of work was to create simple and straightforward design that still had an artistic quality to it; I wanted the work to still communicate artistic effort behind it even if it was simple. I chose my color palette to be warm and inviting while also playing on colors that could be pulled from nature. These qualities both serve to emphasize the handgrown and handmade aspects of the products being sold in the market, and to create a simple path to connection with the company and vendors, therefore building trust. One of the most admirable parts of a farmers market is that you as the customer get to meet and interact with the person or people who have made or grown this product, are passionate about it, and are open with how they got here. This level of understanding people and why they are doing what they are doing is something that is easily accessible in the farmers market environment. The ease of getting to know someone is what I wanted my designs to communicate and make a way to happen.https://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/seniorexhibspring2021/1091/thumbnail.jp
Hey Honey Poster
No full textThe definition of a farmers market is “a food market at which local farmers sell fruit and vegetables and often meat, cheese, and bakery products directly to consumers.” Within this definition there is both simplicity and connection. In deciding to create branding for my market, Atlanta Farmers Market, simplicity and relational connection were the values I wanted my designs to communicate. I have grown up with an appreciation for the hardworking vendors at farmers markets and the community a market has the ability to create. Maybe it’s just the romanticism of the mundane in films, or maybe it’s a reality of the flourishing environment created when people come together to share their passions with each other. Either way, my affinity with this environment has combined with my desire to create things that look beautiful together. This is why I chose to create branding for both the market as a whole and individual vendors of honey, flowers, and bread. I wanted all of the logos, business cards, posters, pictures to speak to their own vendor’s talents and individuality, and work well together to make a successful group under the market’s umbrella.
Throughout most of my work I am interested in the human experience, specifically in relation to the impact we have on each other, and how we move through change and dealing with our past. I have used Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop in combination with photography to create my work, and I have an appreciation for both the practical side of graphic design, like branding, logos, etc. and the artistic side of graphic design like collage.
My concept for this body of work was to create simple and straightforward design that still had an artistic quality to it; I wanted the work to still communicate artistic effort behind it even if it was simple. I chose my color palette to be warm and inviting while also playing on colors that could be pulled from nature. These qualities both serve to emphasize the handgrown and handmade aspects of the products being sold in the market, and to create a simple path to connection with the company and vendors, therefore building trust. One of the most admirable parts of a farmers market is that you as the customer get to meet and interact with the person or people who have made or grown this product, are passionate about it, and are open with how they got here. This level of understanding people and why they are doing what they are doing is something that is easily accessible in the farmers market environment. The ease of getting to know someone is what I wanted my designs to communicate and make a way to happen.https://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/seniorexhibspring2021/1016/thumbnail.jp