Written By: Scott Hoke, Hannah Clark, Hasshan Batts, & Samantha Shaak Surveys can help us understand a lot about our community. From capturing community concerns about changes in our neighborhoods to identifying future opportunities, recent survey efforts by organizations across … Continued
Written by: Julia Kocis Human trafficking brings in an estimated global revenue of $150 billion a year. It is one of the fastest-growing transnational crimes due to its high-profit, low-risk equation. Traffickers exploit vulnerable populations, with women and children comprising … Continued
Written by: Scott Hoke & Kerrie Baker The year 2020 presents a unique opportunity to have the voice of the community heard through national census survey, an opportunity that occurs once every 10 years. It seems only fitting that we … Continued
Written by: Scott Hoke, Samantha Shaak, Hannah Clark, Hasshan Batts Surveys can help us understand a lot about our community. From capturing community concerns about changes in our neighborhoods to identifying future opportunities, recent survey efforts by organizations across Allentown … Continued
Written by: Ronald C. Dendas, MS, Samantha A. Shaak, PhD , Sherri Brokopp Binder, PhD, Carmen Guzman-McLaughlin, MPH Since 2010, the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have released the County Health Rankings and … Continued
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Established in 1987, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) is a voluntary health organization that gives those affected by suicide a nationwide community empowered by research, education and advocacy to take action against this … Continued
Conducted by The Lehigh County Suicide Prevention Task Force Introduction Periodically, high profile tragic events bring the issue of suicide into the national spotlight. These events confirm that suicide is an alarming public health problem that is highly misunderstood and … Continued
By Layne Turner, Lehigh County Drug & Alcohol Administrator When considering the interplay between Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and Opioid Use Disorder (OUD), we are trying to solve an eco-system problem, in which everything is interconnected and requires a complete … Continued
By Layne Turner, Julia Kocis, and Samantha Shaak Lehigh County is at, or exceeds state averages in the number of overdose deaths, treatment admissions, and use of naloxone. This is striking, given the fact that the overdose death rate in … Continued
By Dr. Scott Hoke, Cedar Crest College One of the difficult parts of evaluating any community-based problem or potential solution is making sense of the data that are collected for analysis. What makes this so challenging is that although a … Continued