Staff from the Planning Healthy Communities Initiative will conducted a desktop Health Impact Assessment of the New Brunswick Municipal Public Access Plan. The HIA examined the projected impacts of the plan elements on aspects of local public health including recreational opportunity, public safety, social cohesion and local economic development. The study largely focused on existing literature and secondary sources as its data sources, and also incorporated new primary data obtained through a 2016 public survey administered as part of the Public Access Plan development. The final report is available here.
Wolff and Lewis Pen Chapter on PSD and Trauma-Informed Care
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Trauma-Informed Care Introduction Prison and jail populations have dense and patterned concentrations of childhood and adult trauma (Wolff, 2022). The maturing effects of childhood trauma have been extensively studied for decades,...