Trauma Informed Practices for Oakland Unite Service Providers

<p>Oakland, California - a home to almost 400,000 residents - is the top five most violent cities of the nation. There are lots of factors that greatly contribute to violence including: Poverty, housing/homelessness, unemployment, food insecurity, educational attainment, substance abuse. These factors feed to greater healthy disparities and increased trauma in low-income communities – specifically in east and west Oakland. Measure Y, now called Oakland Unite, is the current violence prevention effort that is set for reauthorization in November 2014. In order for these efforts to continue, Oakland Unite has started looking at comprehensive violence prevention initiatives that includes mental health and trauma informed practices as the primary focus. Recommendations for Oakland Unite include: technical assistances, training, staff support and leveraged funding for agencies to become a trauma informed organizations and continue this work for many years to come.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Public Health (MPH)

Level thesis:degree_level

Project/Capstone - Global access

Year dc:date.available

2014

Author dc:creator

• Haile, Maereg D

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. Alba Diaz
• Dr. Kia James

• violence
• trauma
• trauma informed practices
• mental health
• Oakland
• Community Health
• Community Health and Preventive Medicine
• Environmental Public Health
• Epidemiology
• Health Services Administration
• Other Mental and Social Health
• Other Public Health
• Public Health Education and Promotion
• Substance Abuse and Addiction

Repository record dc:identifier

https://repository.usfca.edu/capstone/42

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.usfca.edu:capstone-1045