August 2018
Health Providers review consent forms prior to first focus group
December 2018- Preparing for Pre-production of Video Intervention
Dr. Manisha Joshi and Dr. Guitele Rahill confirm pre-production video scripts with Haiti-based collaborator and president of OREZON, Mr. Paul Phycien
Actions undertaken to empower teens and their peers
November to December 2018
For many youngsters around the world, Christmas is not a time for receiving and sharing gifts. Many children in Cité Soleil grow up having never celebrated Christmas due to the extreme poverty in their neighborhood. Drs. Rahill and Joshi’s Krik Krak: Mental Health for Pregnant Haitian Teens grant, funded by the Grand Challenges Exploration Round 20 of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, targets pregnant teens in Haiti’s Cité Soleil. Their first round of focus groups revealed several challenges faced by pregnant teens in Cité Soleil, including the need for clothing for the young women and supplies for newborn infants, such as clothing, bottles, washable diapers, and toys. Thus, Cameron Burris, an MSW student and Project Coordinator for the Krik Krak grant and Alexandra Pellot, an MSW student and Graduate assistant, spearheaded a clothing and non-perishable food drive in collaboration with Jenifer Ollis, president of the USF Social Work Society in, a student-run organization.
During the second phase of the grant, when Drs. Rahill and Joshi returned to Cité Soleil to film video interventions that address the biopsychosocial challenges which the identified teens had shared in the first focus groups, they brought clothing and food for mothers and babies, some of whom had been born since the previous trip. They gave those donations to community-based colleagues at Cité Soleil’s OREZON. Colleagues at OREZON sorted through and organized the donations two days before Christmas, providing mothers with gifts for themselves and their children. Mothers even enjoyed blowing balloons, something they never had as children. We were grateful to be able to share clothing drive items with mothers in the community and not just those from our focus groups. We extend our deepest gratitude to the Social Work Society for their willingness to collaborate with us in meeting the essential needs of young mothers in Haiti.
Clothing Drive Recipients
Thursday, February 21, 2019
Introduction of the Krik Krak Project to the Haitian Community in Tampa Bay and to USF Faculty and Students
March 2019- Forging Partnerships for Project Sustainability and Dissemination of Video Intervention
Meeting with Team of Psychologists at Partners in Health in Mirebalais, Haiti: Dr. Cidna Valentin, Mr. Wilder Dubuisson; Fr. Eddy Eustache; Reginald Fils Aime; Ms. Emmeline Affricot ; Ms. Edme Robes PIERRE.
Meeting with Dr. Sabine Lamour and colleagues at SOFA (Solidarite Fanm Ayisyen)/ Solidarity of Haitian Women.
Teen moms demonstrate personal and socioeconomic improvement from initial contact and introduce their babies
KRIK KRAK FOLLOW UP ACTIVITIES
OREZON ADMINISTRATION AND STAFF CAME UP WITH IT AND WITH OTHER SLOGANS AS PART OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS AND PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE ACTIVITIES ON 11/25/20, INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN. THE SLOGAN ACKNOWLEDGES THAT HAITIAN WOMEN IN CITE SOLEIL DO NOT APPEAR TO HAVE A RIGHTFUL PLACE IN SOCIETY, BUT ARE, IN FACT, INVALIDATED.
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