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Note: Prior to July 1, 2007, the School of Public Health was named the College of Health & Human Performance.

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    Prevention is a Privilege: Black Drug-free Community Leaders Implementing Drug-free Community Coalitions in Black Communities
    (Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 2024-02-15) Quinton, Sylvia L.; Burgon E; Hicks Harper, P. Thandi; Parker, Rosalind M.; Cunningham, Suzanne Randolph; Boekeloo, Bradley O.
    Community-based interventions for youth substance use prevention require high levels of capacity to organize and coordinate community resources to support youth development and create opportunities to prevent youth substance use. This project aimed to better understand what Black prevention practitioners perceive as the requirements for a successful drug-free community coalition. Black prevention practitioners, who were engaged in drug-free community funded coalitions had discussions about coalitions as a strategy for youth substance use prevention in Black communities. These facilitated discussions resulted in consensus over a set of nine core principles regarding successful youth substance use prevention coalition building in these communities.
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    Technical Assistance: An Overview of a Product from the Sexual & Gender Diversity Learning Community Program
    (2024) Aparicio, Elizabeth M.; Gazit-Rosenthal, Shachar; Lare, Sean; Vigorito, Michael; Thomas, Shanéa; King-Marshall, Evelyn; Fish, Jessica N.; Boekeloo, Bradley O.; UMD-PRC Community Advisory Board
    Reflecting on your mental health organization’s structure and integrating LGBTQ+ affirming policies and procedures can be helpful in increasing your organization’s competency in supporting LGBTQ+ people. This guide includes statements and questions to help you individually or in a group setting to reflect upon, discuss, and apply key concepts to your practice.
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    Clinical Consultations: An Overview of a Product from the Sexual & Gender Diversity Learning Community Program
    (2024) Aparicio, Elizabeth M.; Gazit-Rosenthal, Shachar; Lare, Sean; Vigorito, Michael; Thomas, Shanéa; King-Marshall, Evelyn; Boekeloo, Bradley O.; Fish, Jessica N.; UMD-PRC Community Advisory Board
    Reflecting on your practice in consultation with other clinicians can improve your comfort and confidence in providing mental health care to LGBTQ+ clients. This guide includes self-reflection questions to consider on your own or bring to clinical consultation meetings.
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    UMD PRC Mental Health Therapist LGBTQ+ Competency Self-Assessment
    (2023-06) Boekeloo, Bradley O.; Fish, Jessica N.; Aparicio, Elizabeth M.; Shin, Richard; Smith-Bynum, Mia; Vigorito, Michael; Lare, Sean; University of Maryland Prevention Research Center
    The Mental Health Therapist LGBTQ+ Competency Self-Assessment was created by the University of Maryland Prevention Research Center for mental and behavioral health professionals to self-reflect and assess their own competencies related to providing LGBTQ+ affirmative care in the following areas: knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy, and practice. This self-assessment takes 15-20 minutes to complete. Each section includes scoring information and interpretations to assist professionals in understanding their current levels of LGBTQ+ competencies. For additional training resources and information, please visit the UMD-PRC Resources Page and consider participating in the UMD-PRC Sexual and Gender Diversity Learning Community Certificate Program.
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    UMD PRC Organizational LGBTQ+ Climate Assessment
    (2023-06) Boekeloo, Bradley O.; Fish, Jessica N.; Aparicio, Elizabeth M.; Shin, Richard; Smith-Bynum, Mia; Vigorito, Michael; Lare, Sean; University of Maryland Prevention Research Center
    The Organizational LGBTQ+ Climate Assessment was created by the University of Maryland Prevention Research Center for administrators of mental and behavioral health organizations to assess the performance of their mental and behavioral health primary organization/practice in serving LGBTQ people. This assessment works best when administrators identify a specific "primary organization/practice" that is the focus for change and growth. This may be a group of service providers who share one organizational administrative system or a solo practitioner. Throughout this assessment, "organization" refers to one administrative system or solo private practice. This assessment takes 15-20 minutes to complete. To calculate domain total scores, add the score for all items under each domain. The higher the scores, the more welcoming and inclusive your organization is for LGBTQ+ and other diverse people. For additional training resources and information, please visit the UMD-PRC Resources Page and consider participating in the UMD-PRC Sexual and Gender Diversity Learning Community Certificate Program.
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    Trends in Health Care Access/Experiences: Differential Gains across Sexuality and Sex Intersections before and after Marriage Equality
    (MDPI, 2022-04-21) Turpin, Rodman E.; Williams, Natasha D.; Akré, Ellesse-Roselee L.; Boekeloo, Bradley O.; Fish, Jessica N.
    Background: Sexual minority adults experience several health care access inequities compared to their heterosexual peers; such inequities may be affected by LGBTQ+ legislation, such as the 2015 national marriage equality ruling. Methods: Using population-based data (n = 28,463) from the Association of American Medical Colleges biannual Consumer Survey of Health Care Access, we calculated trend ratios (TR) for indicators of health care access (e.g., insurance coverage, delaying or forgoing care due to cost) and satisfaction (e.g., general satisfaction, being mistreated due to sexual orientation) from 2013 to 2018 across sexuality and sex. We also tested for changes in trends related to the 2015 marriage equality ruling using interrupted time series trend interactions (TRInt). Results: The largest increases in access were observed in gay men (TR = 2.42, 95% CI 1.28, 4.57). Bisexual men had decreases in access over this period (TR = 0.47, 95% CI 0.22, 0.99). Only gay men had a significant increase in the health care access trend after U.S. national marriage equality (TRInt = 5.59, 95% CI 2.00, 9.18), while other sexual minority groups did not. Conclusions: We found that trends in health care access and satisfaction varied significantly across sexualities and sex. Our findings highlight important disparities in how federal marriage equality has benefited sexual minority groups.