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Accidental Social Worker / ACEBAR / Consultants for Community Development / El Grand Apuesto: Immigration/Emigración / Emigration / Public Health in Guatemala
by ChichiMax · Published 2019-12-23 · Last modified 2019-12-24
… it was only after all the assessments were done and I was collating and analyzing my data back in New York that the consistent thread of psychosocial profiles without identifiable ACEs really became clear, and I realized that what we were seeing was an epidemiology of “toxic stress” among this rural Maya population.
Accidental Social Worker / ACEBAR / Consultants for Community Development / Public Health in Guatemala
by ChichiMax · Published 2019-04-03 · Last modified 2019-04-10
Attached here is the powerpoint I used for my presentation at the Transformational Collaborative Outcomes Management (TCOM) National Conference in Chicago on 4 Oct 2018. It reflects the research and analysis done by me...
Accidental Social Worker / Public Health in Guatemala
by ChichiMax · Published 2019-04-03 · Last modified 2019-04-08
A number of years back there was lots of discussion – I think it may have originated in nursing scholarship – about the need for practitioners to develop “cultural competence.” At the time I...
ACEBAR / Consultants for Community Development / Photo Galleries / Public Health in Guatemala
by ChichiMax · Published 2017-05-29 · Last modified 2019-04-08
Recently I received some photos of the UTMB PA School March Rotation from Elizabeth Knipp, one of the students who participated in that expeience. I immediately wanted to post them, because there’s several that are...
Consultants for Community Development / Public Health in Guatemala
by ChichiMax · Published 2017-03-08 · Last modified 2017-11-08
PA students Elizabeth Knipp and Beth Thompson climbed into an ambulance yesterday morning for the commute to work in the pueblo of La Esperanza. I have driven by this community many times, usually on...
Consultants for Community Development / Public Health in Guatemala
by ChichiMax · Published 2017-03-04 · Last modified 2017-11-08
It’s 15 degrees and windy out as I sit here in my home office in upstate New York working on a presentation about using “cultural competence” in mental health assessments. It’s a subject that...
ACEBAR / Consultants for Community Development / MayaCREW / Photo Galleries / Public Health in Guatemala
by ChichiMax · Published 2017-02-14 · Last modified 2017-11-08
In retrospect, one of the ironies of my life is that although as a kid or young adult I never had any desire to work with children, I have spent most of my adult life working with...
ACEBAR / Consultants for Community Development / Public Health in Guatemala
by ChichiMax · Published 2017-02-14 · Last modified 2017-11-08
While in Chichi we spent A LOT of money (thanks to some very generous donations from various sources) on medications in a little local pharmacy called “Adinqui.” In fact, I visited the pharmacy every...
ACEBAR / Consultants for Community Development / MayaCREW / Photo Galleries / Public Health in Guatemala
by ChichiMax · Published 2017-02-11 · Last modified 2017-11-09
So I’m in a room at my usual little hideout, The Spring Hotel, in something-less-than-sublime Guatemala City. Nice here, and there’s hardly any guests so far, so it’s extraordinarily quiet. Of course it has...
ACEBAR / Consultants for Community Development / MayaCREW / Photo Galleries / Public Health in Guatemala
by ChichiMax · Published 2017-02-09 · Last modified 2017-11-08
So the first day of the clinic began with a bang – 101 patients between the 3 docs – in the far-flung canton (Spanish for “precinct,” but in Chichi a small village) of Xepocol....
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