National Public Health Week 2018

Posted on March 20, 2018 at: 12:52 am

Join the UD Partnership for Healthy Communities and our campus and community partners in observing NPHW 2018 and become part of a growing movement to create the healthiest nation in one generation. During the week, we will celebrate the power of prevention, advocate for healthy and fair policies, share strategies for successful partnerships and champion the role of a strong public health system. Events on and off campus are scheduled throughout the week! When pre-registration is required, please register using the links described for each event.

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Monday, April 2

Health Equity Club Kiosk: Behavioral Health

Trabant University Center, April 2, 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Come complete an activity focused on promoting mental health and well-being. Resources for mental health supports will be available.

Breaking Up With Stress

April 2, 1 to 2 p.m.

This program is hosted by Student Wellness and Health Promotion. Location to be determined.

Tuesday, April 3

Distracted Driving: Are You a Safe Driver?

Little Bob, April 3, 3 to 5 p.m.

Come try out a “distracted driving simulator.” Navigate a roadway on a computer screen while attempting to text on your cell. Featuring Kathy Boyer, Trauma Nurse and Injury Prevention and ThinkFirst Program coordinator at Christiana Care Health Systems, and Matt McNeil, UD student and DPHA Intern.

Sex Jeopardy

April 3, 5 to 6 p.m.

Play along with Promoters of Wellness. Location to be determined.

Wednesday, April 4

Health Equity Club Kiosk: Environmental Health

Trabant University Center, April 4, 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.

Come out to learn all the things you can do to improve the environmental health of your community and take home a build-your-own planter!

National Public Health Week Twitter Chat

April 4, 2 p.m.

Share your ideas on Public Heath on Twitter using #NPHWChat

NPHW Fact Sheets

Changing our health means ensuring conditions where everyone has the opportunity to be healthy. We all have a role to play. Get the Facts!

Evelyn Hayes Innovations in Healthcare Symposium- Mental Health: Hope through Innovation featuring Dr. Timothy Fowles

STAR Health Sciences Complex Atrium, April 4, 1:00 – 4:00 pm

This symposium will specifically showcase treatment innovations and strategies bringing hope to patients, families and caregivers facing major challenges including depression, anxiety and others that do not fit easily in related diagnostic categories. The target audience is patients, their families, and caregivers – although all are welcome. RSVP are requested at http://www.udel.edu/004651 . Free parking is available.

Lecture and a Movie: Violence and Public Health

Main Street Movies 5, April 4, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

The UD Partnership for Healthy Communities will host “Lecture and a Movie: Violence and Public Health” at Main Street Movies 5 in Newark. With a focus on violence as a public health issue, the event will begin with a showing of A Family Affair, a film that highlights how trauma unfolds and can impact the health and wellbeing of individuals, families and communities. “Trauma isn’t something that is ‘out there’ happening to people we don’t know. It has an address and lives in our homes and communities. The community members who collaborated on this project did so to start a conversation and make it relatable so we all see the signs, get resources to our friends and family, and feel compelled to prevent it from happening in the first place” explains Shirelle “Diamond” Hogans, writer and director of the film. Read more about the event on UDaily. This event is open to the Public. Register Now!

Thursday, April 5

“It’s On Us” Club Kiosk

Trabant University Center, April 5, 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.

Visit the kiosk to learn how you can help eliminate sexual assault and why this is a public health issue.

“What You Need to Know Down Below”

Little Bob, April 5, 2 to 4 p.m.

Kate Smith MD, MPH, Program Manager, Immunization Coalition of Delaware will discuss STIs, HPV and Meningococcal diseases. The Health Equity Club and Planned Parenthood of Delaware will also be on site with a kiosk full of resources and information.

Get Up: Stand Up, Being a Courageous Bystander

April 5, 7 to 8 p.m.

Join SOS support for this event. Location to be determined.

Friday, April 6

APHA President Visits Delaware

Trabant University Center, Multipurpose Room A, April 6, 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Special Guest Dr. Joseph Telfair, president of the American Public Health Association, will speak on “APHA, Affiliates Responding to and Shaping Public Health in the US—through Partnerships and Workforce Development” on April 6, in the Trabant Multipurpose Room A, Newark campus. A light lunch will be provided. This event is open to the Public! Please RSVP for Dr. Telfair’s Presentation.

Health Equity Club Kiosk: Pop-Up Parks!

Trabant University Center, April 6, 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.

Do you want a pop-up park on UD’s campus? What even is a pop-up park? Come to learn more and voice your opinion.

Saturday, April 7

Active Minds Stomp Out Stigma 5K

UD Central Green, April 7, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Continue the conversation of behavioral health and join Active Minds at UD for their annual Stomp Out Stigma 5K. Visit Facebook to learn more.

Keep the Momentum Going after NPHW. Let’s Continue Changing Our Future Together!

Monday, April 9

One Love Workshop: Escalation Screening and Discussion

Trabant Multipurpose Room, April 9, 7 to 9 p.m.

All UD students are welcome to attend this powerful, film-based workshop followed by a discussion on healthy and unhealthy relationships and signs of relationship abuse. Includes DJ El Rod, giveaways, and refreshments. This event is hosted by the Department of Human Development and Family Studies. See more details on the department’s website.

The Partnership for Health Communities, a Community Engagement Initiative, is proud to sponsor this NPHW 2018 calendar with the Department of Behavioral Health and Nutrition and UD Employee Health and Wellbeing (College of Health Sciences), the Cooperative Extension (College of Agriculture and Natural Resources), the Health Equity Club, Active Minds, the Collegiate Recovery Community, iMatter, Inc., Delaware INBRE, Delaware Academy of Medicine, and the Delaware Public Health Association.

Launching the Partnership for Healthy Communities

Posted on November 2, 2017 at: 4:46 pm

Conference attendees listen to Former Vice President Joe Biden's speech at the conference

Some 500 people attend the Oct. 30 Vision Coalition Conference in Clayton Hall, which included the launch of the UD Partnership for Healthy Communities.

Partnership to mobilize UD’s research, education, public service efforts

University of Delaware President Dennis Assanis launched the UD Partnership for Healthy Communities at the 10th annual Vision Coalition Conference, titled: Strengthening Partnerships in Health and Education: Delaware and the Nation.

About 500 people attended the conference held Oct. 30 in Clayton Hall. Joe Biden, 47th vice president of the United States, a UD alumnus and founding chair of UD’s Biden Institute, was the morning’s keynote speaker, and all three members of Delaware’s Congressional delegation helped to kick off the event.

The new partnership Assanis launched during the luncheon portion of the conference is part of the UD Community Engagement Initiative, which is designed to strengthen the contributions of UD as an engaged research university.

“This partnership will mobilize the University’s extensive research, education and public service efforts to address the complex health challenges facing communities in Delaware and across the nation, especially those marked by economic and social disadvantages,” Assanis said. “By focusing on the social, economic and environmental conditions in our communities, I believe this partnership can promote not only better health policies and systems of care, but true physical, mental and social well-being for our residents.”

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Celebrating the new Partnership for Healthy Communities are (from left) Delaware Lt. Gov. Bethany Hall-Long; Dan Rich, director of the UD Community Engagment Initiative; Kathy Matt, dean of the College of Health Sciences; Omar Khan, president and CEO of the Delaware Health Sciences Alliance; Rita Landgraf, director of the new partnership; Joe Biden, founding chair of the Biden Institute; and UD President Dennis Assanis.

Since its inception in 2016, the Community Engagement Initiative also has launched the Partnership for Public Education, the Newark Partnership and the Wilmington Partnership. Rita Landgraf, former secretary of the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services, is the director of UD’s Partnership for Healthy Communities (PHC).

“This partnership is a University-wide initiative inspired by a vision of health equity in which all Delawareans have the resources to support optimal health,” Landgraf said. “We know that health is largely shaped outside of the doctor’s office and where you live, go to school, work, play and pray have a greater impact on overall well-being and social influence. Our UD Partnership will align and connect University research, experiential teaching and service to communities to support solution-building and sustainability.”

Sponsored by the Delaware Health Sciences Alliance, the UD Community Engagement Initiative, the Rodel Foundation of Delaware and the Delaware Business Roundtable, the conference brought together community members, educators, policy makers and students to explore the intersection of education and healthy communities.

Joe Biden: “One of the greatest things about Delaware … we have the ability when there’s a crisis to get everybody in the room.”

The audience enthusiastically welcomed Biden, who focused his remarks on violence toward women and children and its impact on health care and educational outcomes.

“The lifelong implications of abuse are staggering,” he said, noting that poverty and lack of opportunity are huge drivers of violence.

He talked about his work on the Violence Against Women Act and the toll that gun violence, domestic violence and sexual assault take on communities, especially women and children. But he praised the people of Delaware as being able to work together to make a difference in health and education.

“One of the greatest things about Delaware … we have the ability when there’s a crisis to get everybody in the room,” Biden said.

Interim Provost Robin Morgan opened the conference, emphasizing the link between education and health — the two main topics of focus at the event.

“We know high-quality education promotes and sustains good health, not only for individuals but for entire communities,” she said. “And we also know good health for students and those in their communities is critical for positive educational outcomes. … This conference is meant to make these connections more explicit and evidence-based, so we can work more strategically and ultimately have a greater impact.”

Dan Rich, director UD’s Community Engagement Initiative, and Kathy Matt, dean of the College of Health Sciences, welcome Joe Biden to the conference.

Delaware’s Congressional delegation — Sens. Tom Carper and Chris Coons and Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester — offered a national perspective on health and education, providing insight on the bipartisan work happening in Washington.

“We cannot possibly hope to address the fundamental problems in education without looking at the health problems in our communities,” Coons said.

Carper, Coons and Blunt Rochester made special mention during their remarks of Howard High School of Technology senior Kaamilah Diabaté, who recited three inspiring, original poems focused on the struggles of inner-city students and the obstacles they face that ultimately lead to challenges in school.

“The change starts with us,” Blunt Rochester said, referencing the last line in one of Diabaté’s poems.

Gary Stockbridge, president and CEO of Delmarva Power and chair of the Vision Coalition, and Delaware Secretary of Education Susan Bunting updated attendees on the progress the Vision Coalition has made over the last year, impacting hundreds of students across the state.

Dan Rich, director of the UD Community Engagement Initiative and professor of public policy, moderated the morning panel session, which focused on the Delaware landscape and featured Bunting, Delaware Division of Public Health Director Karyl Rattay, President and CEO of Westside Family Health Lolita Lopez, and Erin Knight, associate director of the UD Partnership for Healthy Communities. The panel talked about the issue of rising rates of poverty affecting children, and discussed the inevitable interconnections of healthy communities on a child’s education.

Delaware Lt. Gov. Bethany Hall-Long talked about the importance of working together to solve the challenges related to education and health care, and stressed that children need to have access to medical and mental health care.

And College of Health Sciences Dean Kathy Matt mentioned the importance of getting all the key players together to tackle the issues related to health care and education.

“The topics we are taking on are very difficult and challenging,” she said. “It’s about designing the solutions and making them happen.”

An afternoon seminar and workshop allowed members of the education and health fields to come together to share ideas and offer solutions to the critical challenges facing Delaware communities.

The day concluded with a planning forum for the UD Partnership for Healthy Communities led by Tony Allen, provost and executive vice president for Delaware State University.

Originally Posted in UDaily. Article by Valerie Lane and Kate Bailey Photos by Evan Krape | Videos by Ashley Barnas November 01, 2017