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Policy Briefs
August 7, 2020
Prepared by members of the first cohort of the SSWR PhD Student Traineeship in Research Communication Program.

These eight policy briefs were prepared by members of the first cohort of the SSWR PhD Student Traineeship in Research Communication Program. The members of the first cohort were selected through a competitive application process. The purpose of the PhD Student Traineeship in Research Communication Program is twofold. First, to generate a set of knowledge translation products, which take research findings generated by SSWR members, and then translate them into policy briefs suitable for perusal by persons outside the academy. Second, to train PhD students in research communications. These policy briefs are disseminated through the SSWR website, and their presence communicated via social media. We encourage all readers to share with your colleagues.

Measuring Material Hardship is Critical for Capturing Economic Need in US Census Bureau Data
Margaret M. C. Thomas, MSW, PhD Candidate, Boston University School of Social Work

Teen dating violence is more common than you think. ¨ Nearly 1.5 million high school students nationwide experience physical abuse from a dating partner in a single year. ¨ 1 in 3 girls in the US is a victim of physical, emotional or verbal abuse from a dating partner, a figure that far exceeds rates of other types of youth violence. Approximately 35% of the college students reported experiencing some form of sexual violence perpetrated by their dating partner including attempted and completed rapes. College women reported having experienced significantly higher rates of. Moreover, over half of the students (54%) experienced some level of intimate partner violence, harassment (30%), emotional abuse (45%), or physical abuse (26%). Based on a regression model, men who experienced physical rather than emotional abuse.

The Census Bureau sets the bar for measuring economic need
The Census Bureau defines measures of poverty or economic need that are accepted in most policymaking, program design and implementation, and research. Most notably, the Census Bureau produces the annual measure of income poverty in the US, based on data from the Current Population Survey (CPS). Because there are a number of well-established limitations to measures of poverty based on income, the Census Bureau also calculates the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), addressing some of these concerns. However, SPM is still an income-based measure and therefore has limitations as a measure of poverty. Direct measures of need such as material hardship offer essential and notably different information about deprivation.

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To Protect Students, Campuses Must Reduce Rates of Dating Violence
Julia O’Connor

In order to protect students on campuses nationwide, institutions must focus on dating violence
Summary: The prevalence of dating violence among college students is high: one in three college students experience dating violence committed by a current or former partner. The harmful effects of dating violence, which includes a range of abuses, warrant urgent action by institutions of higher education including using evidence-informed programming, tailor­ ing programming to campus culture, and addressing risk and protective factors, in order to truly reduce rates of campus interpersonal violence, as mandated under federal law.

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Reduce Rural Opioid Addiction: Telemedicine Parity is Needed in Pennsylvania
LauraEllen Ashcraft, MSW

Opioid Abuse Kills Thousands in Rural Communities
Opioid abuse kills tens of thousands of Americans every year. Over 72,000 people died of opioid-related drug overdoses in the United States in 2017 (1). Opioid-related deaths in the US occur for many reasons and 40% involve prescription drugs (2). While rates of opioid addiction are higher in urban communities, rural communities experience higher rates of death due to opioid usage (3). Rural communities often do not have access to the most effective treatment (4).

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Treating Opioid Addiction: Improving Patient Health Outcomes with Medication-Assisted Treatment
Joseph Bartholomew, MSW, LCSW, LCAC; Indiana University School of Social Work

The United States is enduring a surge of opioid addiction and opioid overdoses
In the United States, rates of opioid use disorders (OUDs) and opioid-related overdose deaths continue to climb at alarming rates. This crisis has advanced to a public health emergency bringing with it a heightened level of urgency to address the situation.

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Ending cash bail: How to save money while mitigating socioeconomic& racial disparities
Brandy F. Henry, PhD, LICSW, Brandeis University Heller School for Social Policy & Management Columbia University School of Social Work

Summary
Cash bail policies should be eliminated to end the incarceration of people presumed innocent. Ending these policies will also save money and mitigate socioeconomic and racial disparities. Instead of replacing cash bail with risk assessment tools and preventive detention, personal recognizance should be the preferred solution. Savings from decreased incarceration should then be reinvested in communities to address the root causes of incarceration.

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Re-Envisioning the Early Childhood Mental Health System: Adopting a “Two-Generation” Approach to Strengthen Family Well-Being
Abigail Palmer Molina, MA, LCSW, IFECMHS, University of Southern California Suzanne-Dworak-Peck School of Social Work

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Summary
State-funded early childhood mental health programs do not fully address the needs of low-income families, reducing their potential to improve child health and well-being. Unaddressed mental health needs, unemployment, housing instability, exposure to trauma, and immigration-related stressors often overwhelm low-income parents’ abilities to invest time and attention in their young children, which can lead to ineffective parenting and poor child outcomes. Yet the need for sensitive caregiving is most critical during these first five years of life when the architecture of the brain is developing, and children are forming key attachment relationships.

Re-envisioning the child mental health system as a provider of family-centered care that serves the needs of both children and parents would help ensure children’s healthy development. Two-generation or whole-family approaches are unique in that they provide integrated, high-quality services for both children and caregivers in the same setting or program.

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Building School-Community Partnerships to Improve Student Mental Health in Rural Communities
Catherine Kramer

Noah is a thirteen-year-old living in rural upstate New York. He lives with two siblings and his mother, who works part-time at three jobs including one that requires a 45-minute commute. Noah has been struggling with feelings of worthlessness, and it is getting harder for him to focus, even on favorite activities like playing soccer. Noah is not sure when this set of feelings started, but it all became worse after losing his grandfather. The school social worker has met Noah and suspects depression. Unfortunately, this is the only social worker in both the middle and high school in this community, and he is unable to provide Noah with the services he needs. This professional also believes Noah should be assessed for medication treatment, but transporting Noah to the county mental health clinic, which is 50 miles away, presents another set of challenges.

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A Call for Professional Treatment Guidelines for Eating Disorders Among Boys and Men
Kyle T. Ganson

Many medical providers lack knowledge on how to assess and treat patients with an eating disorder. This is particularly concerning for boys and men with eating disorders because they often are underdiagnosed and undertreated. Currently, there are no medical treatment guidelines for male patients with eating disorders¹ despite calls for the Secretary of Health and Human Services to identify education and training materials for health professionals on eating disorders² The Office of Health and Human Services and professional medical organizations need to provide guidance and information on how to assess and treat male eating disorder patients.

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On Thanksgiving Day 2014, the body of Shannon Jones, 23, a senior engineering student at Cornell University was found in an apartment. Her boyfriend, 32, had strangled her after an argument. In February, 21-year-old Miami University student, Rebecca Eldermire was shot to death by her ex-boyfriend in her apartment (just a mile from campus). The list goes on.

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, about 6 in every 1,000 students will be sexually assaulted. That being said, about 80 percent of sexual assaults go unreported by female college students.

As these statistics show, typically, when we think about violence on college campuses, we think about sexual assault. For some reason, domestic violence is far less talked about. And although men can be abused in relationships, they are far outnumbered by women.

Last year the U.S. Department of Education published its final rules to implement changes to the Clercy Act under the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013. Basically, this says that colleges have to collect statistics for cases of sexual assault in addition to incidents of dating violence, domestic violence and stalking. Moreover, colleges are required to include a statement of policy and procedures about how they’re handling these crimes.

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Many colleges have counseling and support services for students who are victims of domestic violence, in addition to partnerships with local domestic violence shelters. For example, The Aurora Center for Advocacy & Education at University of Minnesota provides a safe place for its students, faculty, staff, alumni and family members who are victims or concerned people of sexual assault, domestic violence or stalking.

“It happens a lot. And the difficulty of escaping this kind of relationship is hard—at any age,” says Becky Redetzke Field, legal advocacy coordinator at The Aurora Center for Advocacy & Education at University of Minnesota.

One of the drivers of college violence, according to the Teen Dating Abuse Report, conducted by Tru Insight in 2009 for Fifth & Pacific Companies and Family Violence Prevention Fund, is that some 70 percent of young victims don’t realize that they are being abused by their partner. And while 52 percent of college students know someone being abused, many don’t intervene because they think it will make matters worse, they feel it is not their business, they think it will hurt their relationship with the victim, they know the abuser or they are afraid the abuser might make their own life more difficult.

Redetzke Field adds, “Violence in high school relationships carries over to college. And if violence is present in a person’s first relationship, it can present larger barriers to trying to figure out how to have a healthy relationship after that. Even more so, if it’s a first sexual relationship … that’s such a defining experience for a young person. They may wonder, “How do I have healthy sex with someone? How do I have a healthy relationship with someone?”

Who the victim discloses the abuse to first is critical to whether or not a victim is able move past abuse healthfully, Redetzke Field says. “Whether it’s an advocate, the courts, friends, a healthcare worker—as long as that trusted person responds in an appropriate way, that’s the determining factor. A lot of survivors tell someone and are then blamed or shamed by that confidant, which shuts them down.”

For ideas on how to communicate with someone experiencing abuse, consider reading Be A Better Advice Giver and Empowering Survivors, or scroll through this series of escaping violence articles.

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