USF College of Behavioral & Community Sciences

October 20 - 26, 2019

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Tuesday, 10/22
The Famous Greek
Thursday, 10/24
Pasta Di Guy
SW Professor Guest Edits Special Journal Issue on Hurricane Impacts

Dr. Alison Salloum served as guest editor with a colleague for the Journal of Family Strengths, Special Issue on The Impact of Hurricanes on Children and Families and Interconnected Systems. The articles in this special issue on the impact of hurricanes on children and families and interconnected systems build upon the lessons learned from past disasters and focuses on some of the advances and work being conducted with children and their families in light of catastrophic hurricanes in the past few years (Hurricanes Harvey 2017, Maria 2017, Irma 2017, Michael 2018 and Florence 2018).

The special issue is available via the web with easy access to download the articles. There is also a wonderful Perspectives from the Field article from Central Florida Behavioral Health Network and associated colleagues on their response after Hurricane Michael. Dr. Salloum also joined her colleagues in Houston on a study post Hurricane Harvey.

Yuri Jang to Speak as Distinguished Alumni

Yuri Jang, PhD, will present "Bridging the Gap between Minority Aging Research and Practice" on Friday, October 25, 2019 at 10:30am in the CBCS Atrium. Dr. Jang is a Professor at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work and a Senior Scientist at the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging. Trained as a Gerontologist, she received her doctoral degree in Aging Studies at the University of South Florida in 2001 and completed her postdoctoral training at the University of South Florida Institute on Aging and at the University of Georgia Gerontology Center. Professor Jang's areas of interest include positive adaptation in aging, health disparities, and minority health and service utilization.

Research Roundup

Kathryn Hyer (SAS)
Alzheimers Disease and Related Disorders Training Program
Sponsor: Florida Dept of Elder Affairs
7/1/2016-6/30/2020
Amount: $323,988

In partnership with the DOEA, the Training Academy on Aging receives and processes applications for training providers and curriculum. Ninety percent of all applications received are reviewed and processed within thirty days of receipt.

Compliance is required under the Rules and Statutes for new hire, direct care employees in the following facility types: Assisted Living, Nursing, Homes, Hospice, Home Health, Adult Day Care and Specialized Alzheimer's Adult Day Care.

Nan Sook Park (SW)
Limited English Proficiency, Health, and Healthcare among Older Immigrants
Sponsor: University of Southern California (National Institute on Aging)
9/15/2018-4/30/2020
Amount: $129,800

Limited English proficiency (LEP) poses a vulnerability for older immigrants to navigate health care systems. The overall aim of the study is to explore how social and environmental contexts play a role in health and healthcare among older Korean Americans with LEP. This Study of Older Korean Americans (SOKA) is a multisite project (Overall PI: Yuri Jang) including five sites varied in their concentration of Korean residents; California (1st), New York (2nd), Texas (4th), Hawaii (10th), and Florida (12th). A team of investigators who are proficient with the language and culture of the target population recruit the community-based samples. At each site, an ethnic resource database listing Korean-oriented resources, services, and amenities is compiled with the assistance of local community advisors and members. The database not only facilitates the research team's efforts for community engagement but also guides the selection of recruitment areas.

Michelle Bourgeois (CSD)
DementiaBank Expansion: Language Markers for Dementia Subtypes
Sponsor: Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU)
6/1/2019-5/31/2020
Amount: $213,299

The purpose of this project is to expand the shared DementiaBank database of multimedia interactions for the study of cognitive-communication impairments in persons with different types of dementia. We will construct methods for developing language-based outcome measures that will improve the evaluation and effectiveness of patient-oriented treatments in dementia. To reach that goal, we will organize a consortium of researchers that will finalize shared methodology/protocols for diagnostic descriptions of the patients and the language and cognitive measures. Subsequently, members of this consortium will train clinicians to identify, recruit, and document the diagnostic criteria for each subtype, and then administer the language protocol and send audiofiles and documentation to Dementiabank for transcription and analysis, in order to construct this new database.

Tom Massey (CFS)
All Pro Dad Literacy Campaign and Chapter Development Evaluation Plan
Sponsor: Family First
Dates
Amount: $25,000

This project is to enhance father and child relationships, while building child reading and academic skills via Family First's All Prod Dad program. USF will conduct a longitudinal review of APD chapters as well as a case study of a subset of those chapters, including meeting observations and interviews with team captains.

CBCS In the News

Decades after her daughter's death, a mother gets answers
Washington Post
... state," said Bryanna Fox, a criminology professor at the University of South Florida. "He picked the women and gained their trust, then he ...

 

Shrinking Youth Group Aids Global Decline in Homicides
U.S. News & World Report
in crime trends across countries," said study author Mateus Renno Santos, an assistant professor of criminology at the University of South Florida.

 

USF Studying the Impact of Nursing Home Evacuations During Hurricanes
WUSF (89.7 FM)-Tampa
the University of South Florida has been involved in some of that research and is currently studying the impact of evacuations during hurricane irma usf's lindsay peterson sat down with health news florida to discuss the study ...

 

Bresha Meadows Thought You'd Understand
The Huffington Post
to an estimate by Kathleen Heide, a professor at the University of South Florida who was hired as an expert witness by Bresha's defense team

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