Gap between residents and staff at nursing homes, assisted living facilities getting COVID-19 vaccines continues to widen
ABC Orlando
... vaccines, data shows Dr. Lindsay Peterson with the University of South Florida's School of Aging Studies said she's "surprised" and ... For The Elderly In Nursing Homes, Climate Change Poses Graver Risks
WLRN
..."This one nursing home ended up in a ... place that wasn't equipped," said Lindsay Peterson, a University of South Florida researcher who worked with Brown University to study the toll Irma took on seniors across Florida... About 800,000 Florida seniors still aren't vaccinated
Tampa Bay Times
... Lindsay Peterson, research assistant professor of aging studies at the University of South Florida, agreed that some people do not have ... | 
CFS Faculty Drs. Anna Abella and Amy Vargo are PI's on a newly funded grant by the National Institute of Justice. The goal of the 2-year, $478,553 grant is to inform ongoing implementation and improve program effectiveness for violence prevention and mental health training programs funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) in response to the Students, Teachers, and Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence Act.
Congratulations to Research Assistant Professor Anna Abella on receiving a USF New Researcher Grant. She and Co-PI Monica Landers will be measuring the impact of a pilot implementation of a co-responding telehealth model on officer confidence and competence in responding to mental health crises. The study, Evaluation of Officer Skill and Confidence in Addressing Mental Health Crises through the TRACE Program, will involve three specific aims:
Tram Tran, doctoral student in the College's PhD program was just awarded a Trail Blazer Scholarship from the USF Sarasota-Manatee campus for the 2021-22 academic year, and will be conducting research with Dr. Fawn Ngo, Campus Chair of the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences and Associate Professor of Criminology, starting this summer. This scholarship is designed to support graduate student research on the USF Sarasota-Manatee Campus and provides $25,000 for the 2021-22 academic year.
Associate Professor Christina Dillahunt-Aspillaga has been appointed to the Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification (CRCC) Ethics Committee. The Committee provides advisory opinions on select situations having ethical implications. Her term will run from May 15, 2021 – December 31, 2023.
Dr. Kristin Kosyluk has been named a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Stigma & Health (https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/sah/). Stigma and Health publishes peer-reviewed, original research articles that may include tests of hypotheses about the form and impact of stigma, examination of strategies to decrease stigma's effects, and survey research capturing stigma in populations. Stigma and Health especially welcomes research studies on methods meant to erase the stigma of mental and physical illnesses. Theoretical reviews and pioneering reports on innovations are also welcome. The journal publishes regular articles as well as brief reports.
Congratulations to Dr. Jerome Galea who has been accepted for participation in the Early Career Reviewer (ECR) program at the Center for Scientific Review (CSR), National Institutes of Health. This acceptance speaks to the quality of Jerome's scholarly work.
Congratulations to Dr. Kerry Littlewood whose manuscript "The Children's Home Network Kinship Navigator Program Improves Family Protective Factors" was accepted for publication in Children and Youth Services Review. It publishes the results from the full sample for protective factors from a RCT. This will certainly bring Kerry and her collaborators one step closer to achieving EBP review status.
Congratulations to Dr. Alison Salloum for presenting a workshop on Stepped Care for Children (SC TF-CBT) on May 6, 2021 (sponsored by the School of Social Work and the Crises Center of Tampa Bay). The virtual workshop was well attended (180+ participants) and it seemed clear that participants found it very helpful, enjoyed it and wanted more!