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Understanding the Impact of Trauma-Informed Interventions on Child and Family Mental Health, Dynamic, and Engagement in Occupations
Get PDFThis capstone, conducted at the Cuyahoga County Board of Developmental Disabilities, determined the efficacy of assessments and interventions for children and families affected by trauma. Comprehensive resource guides were developed regarding occupational therapy\u27s role and trauma-responsive methods to support the interdisciplinary trauma teams and improve the quality of life for the families they serve.https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/ot_capstone_posters/1059/thumbnail.jp
Northeast Reintegration Center Leisure Program
Get PDFOccupational therapists have the opportunity to develop programming for inmates to increase skills and engagement in meaningful leisure activities, and to help inmates successfully reintegrate into the community. Through the collection of data from my needs assessment, I created a 12-leisure program outline to educate the women on types of leisure and how leisure participation can be impacted by different barriers, with the ability to participate in a variety of leisure activities. Also, I created a Community Resource Guide that will allow the women to have access to resources in their community upon release to become stable and independent.https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/ot_capstone_posters/1060/thumbnail.jp
Resiliency Program Implementation on Children with Chronic Pain and Caregivers
Get PDFThis capstone included the implementation of an 8-week resiliency-building program for children with chronic pain and their caregivers. This program provided the children and caregivers with education on mindfulness, coping strategies, and social support to overcome challenges they experience to promote resiliency while improving their overall quality of life.https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/ot_capstone_posters/1063/thumbnail.jp
Connect with CSU Faculty: Dr. Wanyerka Presenting 13,000 Years of Native American History in NE Ohio
No full textThe arrival of the first peoples to Northeast Ohio some 13,000 years ago marked the beginning of a long and enduring Native American presence. For over 150 years archaeologists have been studying the prehistory of Northeast Ohio in order to examine and investigate the native peoples who called this area home. Dr. Wanyerka has been investigating the ancient prehistory and cultural achievements of these prehistoric peoples since the 1980s. Please join him on Indigenous Peoples\u27 Day as he presents an illustrated lecture on the prehistory and archaeology of Northeast Ohio.
This presentation of “Connect with CSU Faculty” is co-sponsored by the Michael Schwartz Library in partnership with CSU Student Anthropology Association and Department of World Languages, Literatures, & Culture. The series features the research of Cleveland State University faculty
Local Author Talk with John Grabowski
No full textOn Wednesday, April 10 2024, meet author John J. Grabowski and hear about his recent book titled Cleveland Cultural Gardens: A Landscape of Diversity. From their beginnings as private farmland to their current form as monuments to cultural and ethnic diversity, the unique collection of landscaped, themed gardens that compose Cleveland’s Cultural Gardens holds a rich history. Honoring and embodying the cultural heritages of a region through the beauty of shared outdoor spaces, John J. Grabowski guides readers through this story, using both archival images and Lauren R. Pacini’s stunning contemporary photography.
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Unshackled: Why Eliminating Health Disparities Requires that Our Criminal Justice System Set Incarcerated Mothers and Their Developing Children Free
Get PDFIncarceration of pregnant nonviolent offenders takes not only the pregnant mother captive but also her unborn child. Kept in unnecessary captivity, these innocent children may experience adverse childhood experiences (“ACES”) or lifelong damage to their physical and mental health. The experiences may be the same for children born already to the mother, as they endure the suffering of parental separation during the mother’s absence. In terms of racial health disparities, such captivity presents at least a triple threat—harm to the health of the mother, harm to the health of the unborn fetus, and harm to the health of children born already to the mother. Using the story of Brittany Martin, a pregnant, nonviolent social justice protestor sentenced to four years in prison, this Article makes the case that ending racial health disparities requires offering alternatives other than imprisonment for nonviolent offenders who are pregnant. By offering alternatives that support and keep the parent-child relationship intact, and that avoid what may be lifelong negative consequences of imprisonment, these alternatives help break the cycle of poorer health that unfairly plagues marginalized populations
COVID-19 and Access to Healthcare at the Crossing of Race, Poverty, and Rurality
Get PDFBlack Americans make up 7.7 percent of the rural population in the United States. During the COVID-19 pandemic many in this population found themselves at a unique intersection of inequity - being Black, poor, and residing in a rural area. Poverty is a known contributor to negative health outcomes and is a risk factor for death from coronavirus infection. The association between race and poverty, when examining infectivity and mortality rates of COVID-19, have disproportionately devastated Black Americans and other minorities. Further, research indicates the presence of a general “rural mortality penalty” wherein rural Black communities have higher death rates than similar communities in urban areas. How does someone at the crossroads of these statuses fare when struggling with health care accessibility? The pandemic underscored a need for health equity discourse to continue exploring nuances within marginalized communities. This article argues that the COVID-19 public health crisis highlighted important omissions in public health discussions of healthcare access and health equity, notably that traditional ways of defining healthcare access falls short of capturing the lived experiences of Black, impoverished people living in rural communities. Instead law and policy responses, targeting healthcare access, must expand the definition of “access” to include “Healthcare Access+” factors that acknowledge the history, culture, and unique circumstances of rural Black communities
Assessment of the Intersectionality of Muslim and Queer Identities
Get PDFQueerness can be a taboo subject in many Muslim communities. However, little academic research explores the intersection between queer and Muslim identities. This project employs an audio-ethnographic approach to explore the intersections of familial judgment and sexual identity among Queer Muslims. We believe that familial judgment plays a critical role in shaping the experiences of Queer Muslims, potentially leading to heightened levels of anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts and attempts because of anticipated familial rejection. By integrating ethnographic methods with audio recordings, this study seeks to capture the nuanced personal narratives and lived experiences of individuals identifying as both Queer and Muslim. Through in-depth interviews and reflective audio documentation, the study aims to address the research question: Are Queer Muslims hesitant to embrace their sexual identities due to judgment from families rather than societal disapproval? Preliminary findings indicate that the fear of familial rejection significantly contributes to internalized stigma and emotional turmoil within this community. They also suggest that the psychological burden associated with familial expectations may be more impactful than societal or communal scrutiny. This work highlights the necessity of creating supportive networks that address the challenges faced by Queer Muslims, ultimately advocating for greater awareness and understanding within both familial and broader societal contexts. It also showcases the necessity of creating supportive networks that address the challenges faced by Queer Muslims, ultimately advocating for greater awareness and understanding within both familial and broader societal contexts.https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/u_poster_2024/1007/thumbnail.jp
How the Ribosome Shapes Cotranslational Protein Folding
Get PDFDuring protein synthesis, the growing nascent peptide chain moves inside the polypeptide exit tunnel of the ribosome from the peptidyl transferase center towards the exit port where it emerges into the cytoplasm. The ribosome defines the unique energy landscape of the pioneering round of protein folding. The spatial confinement and the interactions of the nascent peptide with the tunnel walls facilitate formation of secondary structures, such as a-helices. The vectorial nature of protein folding inside the tunnel favors local intra- and inter-molecular interactions, thereby inducing cotranslational folding intermediates that do not form upon protein refolding in solution. Tertiary structures start to fold in the lower part of the tunnel, where interactions with the ribosome destabilize native protein folds. The present review summarizes the recent progress in understanding the driving forces of nascent protein folding inside the tunnel and at the surface of the ribosome
Relative Hulls and Quantum Codes
No full textGiven two q -ary codes C-1 and C-2 , the relative hull of C-1 with respect to C-2 is the intersection C-1 boolean AND C-2(perpendicular to) . We prove that when q \u3e 2 , the relative hull dimension can be repeatedly reduced by one, down to a certain bound, by replacing either of the two codes with an equivalent one. The reduction of the relative hull dimension applies to hulls taken with respect to the e -Galois inner product, which has as special cases both the Euclidean and Hermitian inner products. We give conditions under which the relative hull dimension can be increased by one via equivalent codes when q \u3e 2 . We study some consequences of the relative hull properties on entanglement-assisted quantum error-correcting codes and prove the existence of new entanglement-assisted quantum error-correcting maximum distance separable codes, meaning those whose parameters satisfy the quantum Singleton bound