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      <image:caption>Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The DC Music Summit is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that supports local musicians and the DC music industry by fostering inclusion, community engagement, professional development , and networking. It’s annual full day event is an exchange hub of education, inspiration, solutions in support of the health and growth of the DC Music industry</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Trainings - From Community Voice to Action Equity-Centered Evaluation for Behavioral Health Programs (VOICE)</image:title>
      <image:caption>VOICE helps organizations gather, interpret, and apply community knowledge to strengthen behavioral health programs. Participants learn an equity-centered approach to evaluation that supports responsive decision-making and ensures community perspectives inform meaningful action.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>IMPACT helps organizations move promising behavioral health programs into sustainable practice. Participants learn how to approach implementation, adaptation, evaluation, and dissemination while remaining responsive to organizational realities and community priorities.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Trainings - The VOICE to IMPACT series From community knowledge to sustainable practice</image:title>
      <image:caption>The VOICE to IMPACT Series combines both signature trainings into a comprehensive learning experience. Organizations move from gathering and interpreting community perspectives to implementing, evaluating, sustaining, and sharing programs with greater clarity and accountability.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Trainings - Intersectionality in Action Designing More Responsive Behavioral Health Programs</image:title>
      <image:caption>Intersectionality offers a practical framework for understanding how social identities and structural conditions work together to shape health and access to care. Participants apply an intersectional lens to program design, engagement, evaluation, and implementation so services respond more effectively to the communities they intend to reach.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This training examines the evidence supporting yoga and mindfulness in behavioral health settings, with attention to co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions. Participants explore cultural relevance, trauma-informed delivery, implementation barriers, provider readiness, and the conditions needed to integrate mind-body practices responsibly.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Trainings - Beyond Individual Behavior Social &amp; Structural Determinants of Behavioral Health</image:title>
      <image:caption>Behavioral health does not develop in a social vacuum. This workshop examines how institutions, neighborhood conditions, stigma, racism, economic opportunity, and access to care shape mental health, substance use, and treatment engagement. Participants learn to connect individual experiences with the systems surrounding them.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Practical Mindfulness introduces accessible ways to use mindful awareness during stress, decision-making, communication, and daily routines. Sessions can be adapted for staff wellness, professional development, community programming, or introductory mind-body education.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Do.Re.Mind. brings music, mindfulness, breath, and gentle movement together in an engaging experiential workshop. Participants explore how rhythm and embodied practices can support stress awareness, emotional regulation, connection, and well-being.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Trainings - Beyond the Survey Designing Meaningful Program Evaluations in Medical Education</image:title>
      <image:caption>Effective evaluation begins before a survey is administered. This training helps faculty and medical-education teams develop focused evaluation questions, select appropriate methods, gather useful evidence, and design evaluation processes that support curricular decision-making and program improvement.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Artificial intelligence is changing how medical schools teach, assess learners, conduct research, and evaluate programs. This training helps medical-education leaders examine how AI tools may reproduce bias, overlook important experiences, influence learner trust, and affect educational decision-making. Participants consider practical questions concerning representation, transparency, privacy, accountability, and equitable implementation.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Meet Dr. Mary Mbaba Founder &amp; Principal Researcher Mary Mbaba, PhD, MPH Mary Mbaba, PhD, MPH, is an applied social psychologist, public health researcher, and NIH/NIDA T32 Postdoctoral Fellow at Penn State’s Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center. Her research examines how identity, social conditions, and systems shape behavioral health, access to care, and engagement with interventions. Across more than 15 years of research, Dr. Mbaba has studied mental health, substance use, HIV prevention, justice involvement, and health-promoting behavior. Her current work uses community-engaged research and implementation science to develop culturally responsive mind-body approaches for young adults experiencing co-occurring mental health and substance use challenges. Dr. Mbaba earned her PhD in Applied Social Psychology from George Washington University and her MPH from Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health. She teaches Research Methods in Psychology at the University of Maryland Global Campus and has taught medical students about social determinants of health at Howard University Hospital. Her work also reflects her experience in yoga, contemplative practice, health education, and creative storytelling.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Design rigorous mixed-methods studies to understand what is happening—and why.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Evaluate programs and needs to measure impact and inform better decisions.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Apply behavioral and social science to complex behavioral health challenges.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Identify what helps programs succeed—and what gets in the way.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Bring research, evaluation, and implementation expertise to funded projects and competitive grants.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Research - The Yoga Mat Divide: How Racial Identity and Media Prototypes Shape Black Women’s Willingness to Practice</image:title>
      <image:caption>What happens when we change who gets pictured as the face of wellness? Published in the Journal of Health Psychology, The Yoga Mat Divide examines how racial identity and media representations of yoga shape Black women’s attitudes toward the practice and willingness to participate. Among 105 Black women, seeing oneself as similar to the women pictured practicing yoga was associated with more positive attitudes and greater willingness to practice. The findings point to a larger question for health and wellness interventions: Who feels represented, welcomed, and able to see themselves participating? The study grew from my doctoral research and nearly two decades of personal experience with yoga—as a practitioner since 2009, an instructor since 2014, and creator of Vinyl &amp; Vinyasa in 2016. Representation is more than an image. It can shape who sees an intervention and thinks, “This could be for me.” *send email for copy of the PDF article</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Findings: In a community sample of 786 Black adult men, the co-use of cannabis and binge drinking was associated with significantly higher depressive symptoms compared to single-substance use or abstinence. Notably, men who exclusively used cannabis exhibited the second-highest depression scores, surpassing those who only binge drank, and more frequent use of either substance directly correlated with greater symptom severity. The study also revealed distinct symptom profiles: greater cannabis use was strongly linked to depressed mood and difficulty concentrating, whereas frequent binge drinking was tied to restless sleep and irritability. Together, these findings suggest that substance use, particularly co-use, may serve as a coping mechanism for managing the cumulative burden of racialized stress, underscoring the critical need for culturally responsive mental health screening and holistic care for Black men. *send email for copy of the PDF article</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Addressing the maternal health crisis and reducing racial inequities in the nation’s capitol will require a multifaceted community-centered approach to narrow critical gaps in the access and availability of quality maternal health care services in Wards 7 &amp; 8. By resourcing Black-led CBOs, expanding delivery of critical social need services, providing holistic services to birthing people, and diversifying the maternal health workforce, Black birthing people in DC will have greater opportunities for healthy infant delivery. The success of these approaches relies on policies that address structural racism and its impact on the health of Black people in DC. *send email for copy of the PDF article</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Research - The Influence of Descriptive and Injunctive Norms on U.S. Adolescent Marijuana Use: A Systematic Review of the Literature</image:title>
      <image:caption>Findings: Injunctive norms and descriptive norms are key factors in considering adolescent marijuana use, although peer descriptive norms may be most influential. The lack of systematic definition and measurement of marijuana use, norms, and referents was apparent in the literature. Future research should systemize norm constructs and explore differences in the norm–marijuana use relationship among adolescents with intersecting identities (e.g., gender, race) and social network referents (e.g., family, peer groups). *send email for copy of the PDF article</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Research - Ending the HIV epidemic for all, not just some: structural racism as a fundamental but overlooked social-structural determinant of the US HIV epidemic</image:title>
      <image:caption>Findings: Collectively, the articles in this review highlight a growing consensus that the US has no real chance of EHE for all, absent a meaningful and measurable commitment to addressing structural racism and intersectional discrimination as core determinants of HIV, and without more equitable engagement with community-based organizations and communities disproportionately affected by HIV. *send email for copy of the PDF article</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Research - Beyond “heartfelt condolences”: A critical take on mainstream psychology’s responses to anti-Black police brutality.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Findings: Informed by critical psychology, and the critical theoretical frameworks of critical race theory, intersectionality, and Afro-Pessimism, the goal of this article is to critically engage with the topic of anti-Black police brutality. By critically engage, we mean expose and challenge the economic, social, and material power relations that disproportionately expose Black people to police brutality; and conceptualize police brutality not as a series of aberrant incidents, but as a structure that in essence constructs and reifies Blackness and Whiteness. We also introduce the Anti-Black Police Brutality Continuum, a conceptual framework of police brutality as a broad spectrum of routine manifestations of anti-Black structural racism, and criticize mainstream psychology’s deferral of a critical and transformative response to anti-Black police brutality. *send email for copy of the PDF article</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Findings: Results showed that more everyday racial discrimination and incarceration, but not unemployment, significantly predicted more depressive symptoms. The links between discrimination, incarceration, and depressive symptoms were stronger for men who reported lower levels of problem solving coping and social support than those with higher levels. Our study suggests that interventions emphasizing protective factors may help Black men cope with some of the deleterious effects of racial discrimination and incarceration. It also underscores a need for structural interventions that reduce racial discrimination and incarceration. Depression among Black men is not simply a biomedical or psychological condition, but also a critical health equity issue *send email for copy of the PDF article</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Research - The Stroman Effect: Participants in MEN Count, an HIV/STI Reduction Intervention for Unemployed and Unstably Housed Black Heterosexual Men, Define Its Most Successful Elements</image:title>
      <image:caption>Findings: Analyses highlighted three key themes: (a) the favorable impact of Mr. Stroman, the lead peer counselor, on participants’ willingness to participate in MEN Count and disclose their challenges—we dubbed this the “Stroman Effect”; (b) the importance of Black men intervention deliverers with relatable life experiences; and (c) how contextual factors such as the HIV/AIDS epidemic, needs for housing and employment services and safe spaces to talk about challenges, and absentee fathers shaped participation. We discuss the study’s implications for sustainable programs after funding ends and future multilevel health interventions to promote health equity for poor urban Black men. *send email for copy of the PDF article</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Research - Negative Police Encounters and Police Avoidance as Pathways to Depressive Symptoms Among US Black Men, 2015–2016</image:title>
      <image:caption>Findings: Results. The results showed significant indirect effects of incarceration history on depressive symptoms via negative police encounters and police avoidance. Unemployment moderated the indirect effect via police avoidance. Participants with a history of incarceration who were unemployed reported significantly higher police avoidance and, in turn, higher depressive symptoms. Moderation of unemployment on the indirect effect via negative police encounters was not significant. Conclusions. There is a critical need to broaden research on the health impact of mass incarceration to include other aspects of criminal justice involvement (e.g., negative police encounters and police avoidance) that negatively affect Black men’s mental health. *send email for copy of the PDF article</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Findings: Results: Overall, 78 (30%) participants screened positive for moderate to severe depression and 54 (21%) screened positive for bipolar disorder. Participants self-reported mood disorders at higher rates than they screened positive for these conditions. Participants screening positive for these conditions experienced significantly greater family, legal, and medical problems on the Addiction Severity Index-Lite (ASI-Lite) than those who did not screen positive. Incidence of a lifetime suicide attempt was found to be associated with a positive screen for both mood disorders. Prescribed psychotropic treatment utilization was similar among those who screened positive for depression or bipolar disorder with approximately 38% reporting taking medication. Importance: Findings suggest universal mood disorder screening to improve comprehensive psychiatric care and treatment of opioid-dependent justice-involved individuals. *send email for copy of the PDF article</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Research - Housing Experiences among Opioid-Dependent, Criminal Justice-Involved Individuals in Washington, D.C.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Findings: Findings suggest that those with a greater number of housing transitions were considerably less likely to self-report criminal activity, and criminal involvement was highest among those who were chronically homeless. Residential mobility was unassociated with days of drug and alcohol use; however, residing in regulated housing (halfway houses and homeless shelters) was associated with a decreased frequency of substance use. The finding that residing at sober-living housing facilities with regulations governing behavior (regulated housing) was associated with a lower likelihood of illicit substance use may suggest that regulated housing settings may influence behavior. Further research in this area should explore how social networks and other related variables moderate the effects of housing type and mobility on crime and substance use. *send email for copy of the PDF article</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Findings: Fulton County Jail (FCJ) in Atlanta, Georgia, is one of the 50 largest jails in the nation, with an average daily census of 2,269 detainees (1). During January 1, 2011–March 15, 2012, FCJ implemented a demonstration project to integrate routine rapid human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) screening into the medical intake process. This report summarizes the results. Nearly 59% of persons booked (22,920 of 39,073) received an intake medical evaluation, and voluntary oral fluid HIV rapid screening was offered, except to those who disclosed a previous HIV diagnosis (473 [2.1%]) or were not able to provide consent. An HIV test was offered on 18,869 visits, and 12,141 HIV tests were conducted. All persons with a reactive result (120 [1.0%]) underwent confirmatory HIV testing unless they subsequently disclosed a previous HIV diagnosis. This project identified 52 persons with newly diagnosed HIV infection; 48 by rapid testing (0.4% of those tested) during the study period. All received medical care in the facility and referral for community services on release. Without this HIV screening project, these persons likely would have been diagnosed later in the course of their infection, resulting in delayed access to care and treatment, and possible transmission of HIV to their partners. Linkage to community services is critical, and coordination with the public health system and community-based organizations are essential to ensure access to HIV care and retention in treatment for persons with HIV released from jail. *send email for copy of the PDF article</image:caption>
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