Daniel A Boamah, Leann McGraw, Betty L Wilson, Brittany Nwachuku, Shawnise Martin Miller, Dana K Harmon, Bonnie Young, Sharon E Moore, Sharon D Jones-Eversley
{"title":"Addressing Police Brutality of Black Men: Using a Trauma-Informed Approach.","authors":"Daniel A Boamah, Leann McGraw, Betty L Wilson, Brittany Nwachuku, Shawnise Martin Miller, Dana K Harmon, Bonnie Young, Sharon E Moore, Sharon D Jones-Eversley","doi":"10.1080/19371918.2025.2540264","DOIUrl":"10.1080/19371918.2025.2540264","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Through the broad use of technology such as phones and social media, people are more aware of various instances of police brutality. Specifically, police violence toward Black men continues to garner increased public scrutiny. The paper discusses the historical context of police violence toward Black men and the associated psychological trauma impact. The authors advocate for police reform using the Sanctuary Model of trauma-informed care approach to address the issue. Further, the implementations of trauma-informed care in police training for United States law enforcement and for Black men are presented.</p>","PeriodicalId":46944,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144761707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Silent Scars: Trauma in Communities.","authors":"Hafiz Muhammad Ihsan Zafeer","doi":"10.1080/19371918.2026.2679288","DOIUrl":"10.1080/19371918.2026.2679288","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46944,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"478-480"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147989551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cindy Sousa, W Alex Mason, Ni Ketut Wilmayani, Katie King, Lindsey Norton
{"title":"\"Trying to Keep Things as Normal as Possible for the Kids\": Parenting Stress and Resilience within Wildfire Disasters.","authors":"Cindy Sousa, W Alex Mason, Ni Ketut Wilmayani, Katie King, Lindsey Norton","doi":"10.1080/19371918.2026.2636679","DOIUrl":"10.1080/19371918.2026.2636679","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite the proliferation of disasters within our ongoing climate crisis, we know relatively little about the burdens and intersecting inequalities faced by parents in climate disasters and the diverse, creative ways parents promote resilience. Here, we present findings from interviews with Disaster Case Managers (DCMs, <i>N</i> = 13) in the West Coast of the United States after multiple massive wildfires, analyzed using grounded theory methods. Findings point to the disproportionate suffering of particular families (indigenous, LGBTQ, immigrant, low-income), as they had fewer resources and more overlapping sources of stress and marginalization that lengthened recovery periods. Loss of income, home, and community were profound risks for families, especially those multiply marginalized. And yet, parents rallied their parental capacity, working to ensure safety, belonging, routines, and connections, using internal and external resources. We conclude with implications for practice, emphasizing how post-climate disaster interventions must prioritize family strengths, parental capacity, and attention to long-standing injustices.</p>","PeriodicalId":46944,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"350-367"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147500193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annie Ruth Leslie, Cordelia Obizoba, Ayanna M Lynch, Kim Brittingham Barnett, Makeba T Green, So'Nia L Gilkey
{"title":"Afrocentric Strategies to Mitigate Stigma-Related Trust and Environmental Barriers to the Maternal Opioid Misuse (MOM) Program.","authors":"Annie Ruth Leslie, Cordelia Obizoba, Ayanna M Lynch, Kim Brittingham Barnett, Makeba T Green, So'Nia L Gilkey","doi":"10.1080/19371918.2026.2638529","DOIUrl":"10.1080/19371918.2026.2638529","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Maternal Opioid Misuse (MOM) Program offers wraparound services for pregnant and postpartum Black and Brown women with opioid use disorders. Yet, stigma, mistrust, and cultural bias deter engagement. Economic, health and environmental inequalities obstruct access to quality care programs and increase alienation and aversion to help-seeking. Based on analysis of interviews with 17 Medicaid service providers, innovative, culturally responsive strategies to support populations vulnerable to distress, climate crises, and systemic injustices are presented. Specifically, Afrocentric Group-Affirming Strategies (AGAS) aim to mitigate barriers to Black and Brown women's engagement in wraparound social services similar to the MOM Program by prioritizing practices rooted in African American traditions, norms and values, (i.e. spiritual traditions, storytelling, and communal caregiving). These culturally grounded interdisciplinary strategies answer the call to action for building community trust, cultural resilience, increasing engagement in social services, and advancing environmental justice in marginalized communities.</p>","PeriodicalId":46944,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"372-392"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147500161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luis R Alvarez-Hernandez, Candace Robledo, Loren Clark, Jamboor K Vishwanatha, Luis R Torres-Hostos
{"title":"\"Si Te la Pones, Yo También Me la Pongo\": COVID Vaccines and Hispanic Communities at the Texas-Mexico Border Region.","authors":"Luis R Alvarez-Hernandez, Candace Robledo, Loren Clark, Jamboor K Vishwanatha, Luis R Torres-Hostos","doi":"10.1080/19371918.2025.2550353","DOIUrl":"10.1080/19371918.2025.2550353","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Given the disproportionate rates of COVID infections among Hispanics, this study explored factors influencing COVID vaccine uptake and inform public health messaging targeting this population. Hispanic participants (<i>n</i> = 80) were part of eight Spanish and English focus groups. Bilingual researchers transcribed interviews verbatim and conducted Reflexive Thematic Analysis. Five themes were constructed regarding factors influencing the community's uptake of the vaccines: (1) Vaccine seen as lifesaving; (2) Difficulty accessing the vaccine; (3) Vaccinated to protect others; (4) Misinformation led to fear and mistrust; (5) Others influenced perception of COVID and uptake of the vaccine. Two themes were constructed regarding factors influencing public health messaging: (1) Trusted sources of information are critical; and (2) Culturally relevant prevention and treatment messaging is needed through social media. Motivated to protect others, culturally relevant community-informed messaging via local trusted stakeholders is necessary for social workers to address health misinformation and reach Texas-Mexico border Hispanics.</p>","PeriodicalId":46944,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"33-52"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144973605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ecosocial Adaptation and the Care Professions: A systems-Ecological Approach to Climate Risk.","authors":"C Taylor Brown","doi":"10.1080/19371918.2025.2554664","DOIUrl":"10.1080/19371918.2025.2554664","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As climate change accelerates, it generates not only environmental disruption but a new form of multidimensional social risk - climate risk - unfolding across nested social, ecological, and institutional systems. This paper advances a systems-ecological perspective to conceptualize climate risk as a relational and stratified risk, disproportionately impacting marginalized communities. It then maps dominant adaptation frameworks - ecomodernism, post-/degrowth, sustainability, Indigenous knowledge, and environmental and climate justice, as well as environmental social work - highlighting their divergent assumptions, values, and implications for equity and resilience. Building on these perspectives, the paper introduces the concept of ecosocial adaptation, an integrative framework that foregrounds inclusion, care systems, and ecological interdependence as central to climate resilience. Care professions like social work, public health, education, and allied fields are already engaged in adaptation, yet often without a shared paradigm. This paper calls for the care professions to embrace ecosocial adaptation as a unifying framework to guide practice, pedagogy, and policy, positioning them as critical agents in climate adaptation.</p>","PeriodicalId":46944,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"197-211"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144993968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Child Welfare Professionals Serving Child Sex Trafficking Victims: Changes in Knowledge and Self-Efficacy Over Time.","authors":"Caroline Harmon-Darrow, Nikita Aggarwal, Karen Burruss-Cousins, Nadine Finigan-Carr","doi":"10.1080/19371918.2025.2602451","DOIUrl":"10.1080/19371918.2025.2602451","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prevention of trafficking is legislated and funded through federal law, with victim services for child sex trafficking assigned to local departments of social services. Among child welfare workers, research has documented mislabeling, misidentification, misunderstanding of policy, and improper care for youth involved in sex trafficking, and pointed to a need for training of professionals. A survey of five years of classes of child welfare workers (<i>n</i> = 1,061) in departments of social services was conducted, measuring changes in the pre-training knowledge and self-efficacy workers arrived with regarding engaging with survivors of child sex trafficking. Correlations and regression analysis (controlling for gender, race, and years working in the field) showed that the passage of time was associated with markedly higher levels of pre-training knowledge by successive cohorts of workers arriving for training but not with higher self-efficacy in these areas. Professional development training for child welfare workers about child trafficking should deliver more advanced content, while expanding experiential training components that build self-efficacy.</p>","PeriodicalId":46944,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"279-291"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145795148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modernizing Student Housing in Urban Communities: A Social Work and Public Health Perspective.","authors":"Toran Davis, SyQuon Shaw, Raymond Adams","doi":"10.1080/19371918.2026.2623915","DOIUrl":"10.1080/19371918.2026.2623915","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Safe, accessible, and affordable student housing is vital for student success, influencing academic achievement, mental health, and community stability. Many urban colleges rely on substandard facilities that often fail low-income, first-generation, and minority students. This commentary argues that student housing should function as both a preventive health strategy and a means of promoting social justice. By examining mixed-use redevelopment models at Florida A&M University and Howard University, the paper demonstrates how design and collaboration-including social work advocacy-can create inclusive, health-promoting environments. Utilizing the Social Determinants of Health and Social Ecological Model frameworks, this discussion calls for interdisciplinary partnerships as essential strategies to advance equity and well-being in higher education.</p>","PeriodicalId":46944,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"314-317"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146094657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Equity and Resilience in Higher Education: An Examination of Environmental Injustices Affecting College Students from Marginalized Populations Amid Climate Crises.","authors":"Shauntisha Pilgrim, Howard Ray Simons","doi":"10.1080/19371918.2026.2657320","DOIUrl":"10.1080/19371918.2026.2657320","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As climate crises become more severe, higher education institutions face unprecedented challenges in protecting and supporting their students. This conceptual paper explores the intersection of equity and resilience in higher education, emphasizing how structural inequities increase climate-related vulnerabilities among marginalized student groups, especially low-income, first-generation, and BIPOC students. Using the Social Ecological Model and the Whole Community Approach, this paper suggests that climate resilience in higher education must go beyond traditional emergency management to include multilevel, equity-focused, and community-driven strategies. These strategies should integrate institutional planning with cross-sector partnerships and student-centered support to improve preparedness, response, and recovery. This analysis highlights the importance of incorporating environmental justice, public health principles, and system-level collaboration into campus resilience planning to ensure fair outcomes and protect student success and well-being amid climate-related challenges.</p>","PeriodicalId":46944,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"439-451"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147677629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Charles Kiiza Wamara, Maria Bennich, Thomas Strandberg
{"title":"They are Sending Us to Our Early Graves: Older People's Accounts of Elder Abuse in Uganda.","authors":"Charles Kiiza Wamara, Maria Bennich, Thomas Strandberg","doi":"10.1080/19371918.2026.2672485","DOIUrl":"10.1080/19371918.2026.2672485","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As the social impacts of globalization and urbanization continue to weaken families, older people are increasingly likely to suffer abuse and neglect. This qualitative study explored what older people perceived as the causes and consequences of abuse and the coping mechanisms they employed. A qualitative study design informed by in-depth semi-structured interviews was used to gather data from 33 older people. Nineteen women and 14 men ranging in age from 63 to 89 years were interviewed. The findings revealed loss of culture, family dislocation, chronological age, and a shortage of land for cultivation as the assumed causes of abuse in Uganda, with reported social, economic, and psychological effects. The findings further showed that victims of elder abuse in Uganda rely upon social support systems and income generation to survive. Social care professions are urged to adopt family- and community-centered approaches to deal with elder abuse in the country.</p>","PeriodicalId":46944,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"462-477"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147965055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}