Community Solutions

Join us as we explore how families and communities can support the well-being of Latine youth facing stress and racial-ethnic discrimination. Dr. Natalie Guerrero shares how her work with families in Indianapolis is helping build strength, identity, and connection through culturally grounded approaches. To learn more about Dr. Guerrero, please visit these sites: https://medicine.iu.edu/faculty/62215/guerrero-natalie, https://research-studies.allinforhealth.info/us/es/clinicaltrial/12541/latine-teens-13-17-and/index/

Autism prevalence has increased over 400% in the past several decades but our service systems have not kept pace. Consequently, children are waiting months to years to access diagnostic evaluations which further delays access to needed interventions. Building capacity of community primary care teams can improve access to early autism evaluations and provide connections to life-changing interventions and resources that support optimal child development and family wellbeing.   Website that includes a video about Dr. McNally's research: https://medicine.iu.edu/pediatrics/specialties/health-services/health-equity-through-autism-research-translation

Dr. Tracey Wilkinson is a pediatrician and health services researcher in the Division of Children's Health Services Research (https://medicine.iu.edu/pediatrics/specialties/health-services) in the Dept. of Pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine.  Her research is focused on reproductive health care access for adolescents and young people in particular, but centers all her work on patient-centered care.  She helps lead a state-wide contraception access program called PATH4YOU (Pregnancy At a Time that is Happy and Healthy 4 YOU) that provides free access to all forms of contraception to anyone in the state.  Learn more at www.path4you.org

Providing respectful relationships with our infants today, will help them grow into caring adults that will build and sustain healthy, hopeful communities in the future. This episode provides listeners with simple, impactful relationship-building strategies to employ with infants. These strategies facilitate healthy infant development, and provide a foundation for building healthy relationships with all humans! To learn more about the Resources for Infant Educarers (RIE) approach please visit: https://rie.org; to learn more about the importance of healthy adult-infant relationships on infant brain development please visit: https://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/three-early-childhood-development-principles-improve-child-family-outcomes/#responsive-relationships To learn more about the Indiana Grassroots Maternal Child Health Initiative, funded by Riley Children’s Foundation, please visit: https://fsph.iupui.edu/research-centers/centers/cheer/grassroots/index.html The Community Solutions Podcast is a product of the Dept. of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health. To learn more about the department, its education, research and outreach programs, please visit: https://fsph.iupui.edu/about/departments/social-behavioral-sci/index.html.

Mothers on the Rise is an outgrowth of the Indiana Grassroots Maternal and Child Health Initiative (https://fsph.iupui.edu/research-centers/centers/cheer/grassroots/index.html). Mothers on the Rise serves mom/baby pairs transitioning from the Leath Nursery Unit of the Indiana Women’s Prison to their home community. Mothers on the Rise staff and their partners help mothers navigate their community, and work to build a mother's capacity to flourish in her home community.  The Community Solutions Podcast is a service of the Dept. of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health in Indianapolis, IN. To learn more about the department and its education, research and outreach programs, please visit: https://fsph.iupui.edu/about/departments/social-behavioral-sci/index.html.