🚨 Publication Alert 🚨 The nonbinary minority stress and resilience scales are out now!! Please share with any researchers who may find these scales useful. The scales and the preprint of the article can be accessed on our lab website! empowermentlab.wordpress.com/measures/

SPH's Sylvette La Touche-Howard and Tracy Zeeger are leading us into the future w/help from a new Univ. of Maryland
teaching innovation grant, co-directing an interdisciplinary team to develop an #AI -powered community simulator. brnw.ch/21wIUSk

🌿 Exciting news! SPH will launch its new Department of Global, Environmental, and Occupational Health (GEOH) this fall, expanding our focus on critical public health issues. 

Learn about the new major in GH and specialization in environmental justice: sph.umd.edu/news/umd-schoo…

Val! We are so happy to have you as part of our team. You’ve been instrumental in our #RosietheChatbot study and I’m so excited for you to begin mentoring your first undergraduate student RA. Our team is so much stronger with you on it! Department of Behavioral and Community Health, UMD UMD Public Health

Dr. Megan Feely, Jeehae Kang and I have a new paper out today in Social Service Review. We’re thrilled to be selected as the editor’s choice open access article for the issue. Recently, a number of excellent papers have shown that a more robust social safety net reduces child welfare (1/5)

Police officer: I've been a police officer for over ten years and sometimes when I respond to a domestic call I say to the mother (who is the victim) 'how can you let your children go through this?'

Me: How many times in 10 years have a you said to the perpetrating father

Do you or someone you know need structure, guidance, and support on your healthy lifestyle journey?

Our evidence-based healthy lifestyle program is now open to the public! We launch this Monday, April 15.

Learn more and join here! mhealth.inchip.uconn.edu/health-is-soci…

Enjoying listening to the wisdom of Dr Darren Whitfield this afternoon UMD Public Health University of Maryland Prevention Research Center

Reading dissertations makes me happy. Proud of my advisees. It’s a beautiful thing to see ppl stepping into their purpose as scholars & pursuing their 1st study as a PI. I always remind my students: I’m here to consult & support, but final decisions are generally theirs to make.

Hey Fam! I’m guest hosting on the Today with Dr Kaye show for the next few days. Tomorrow we’re talking about intimate partner violence in the first hour and sexual assault survivors in the second. Join the convo WEAA889 #ViolencePrevention #IPV #SexualAssaultAwarenessMonth

Hard work without strategy is harder work.

We want to understand what supervisors do to promote the well-being of their research team members and how effective they perceive those strategies to be. If you supervise at least 1 person, it would be great to hear from you: bit.ly/VTRTS. The survey takes 5-10 min.

'Every time I slip into the ocean, it's like going home.' – Sylvia Earle

Sabbatical life is very sweet. Savoring this time to write and reflect.

If you’re wondering where #SayHerName actually originated and why the movement is so important, my audiobook is the perfect resource. 👇🏾

My grace abounds but sometimes you gotta check a fool.

Shout out to my fellow social workers! Thank you for all you do every day. We always have room to grow, but I’m proud of my field. It’s an honor to be invited into people’s lives to accompany them as they develop and execute their goals #SocialWorkMonth

Grateful for the #RosietheChatbot highlight Quynh Nguyen UMD Community THRIVES Lab

Tip for folks who do survey research with Qualtrics : before fielding (or pre-registering), highly recommend generating test responses first. Two big reasons. 🧵

UMD Research Stories produced a video of our Rosie the chatbot clinical trial. :O) Interviews from the research team and a mom participant! with Liz Aparicio, PhD, MSW, LCSW-C UMD Community THRIVES Lab

Rosie the chatbot:
today.umd.edu/pocket-sized-s…