2018

The number of unprotected urban refugees in Bangkok has grown over the past few years with new migrations of young women, men and families from Somalia and Pakistan. An urban environment can mean opportunity for some but for many the environment can increase vulnerability to exploitation and detention.

Marriage enhancement programs enacted under the federal Healthy Marriage Initiative imply that marriage behaviors and attitudes of poor women are different from those of the middle class, and that the cash assistance program is an appropriate venue to change these attitudes. A population of long-term recipients of public cash assistance and a random sample of general population adults were compared regarding views toward traditional marriage.

Hope Squad is a school-based, peer-to-peer suicide prevention program using curriculum, training, education, and outreach to identify and help students with thoughts of suicide.

Youth in the child welfare system are often at increased risk for suicide due to the numerous physical and psychological challenges they face. This study was a longitudinal assessment of the impact of suicide intervention training on staff's abilities to identify, assess, and intervene when working with these youth in a child welfare setting.

A retrospective descriptive study aiming to describe an emergency medical dispatchers’ abilities to correctly triage Acute Myocardial Infarctions (AMIs) into Advanced Life Support (ALS) response tiers.