IPV & TBI
Intern assigned to this project: Trevor Hughes
Mentor & primary contact: Hannah
We’ll be adding more resources as you work on the project, so make sure to check this page every day before you get started.
Introduction
We are very excited that you are going to create a page for IPV & TBI. You will be making decisions about what information to include, and how to write about it. Eve has agree to read your drafts of the page’s content and give feedback.
Page Design
The other set of decisions you will be making is related to the structure of the page; how to present the material, what diagrams or multimedia presentations you want to include, and other readability, accessibility, and clarity considerations. We plan to give you access to our ConcussionAlliance.org website so that you can actually build the page yourself, with feedback from the CA team. You may want to read up on these Squarespace tutorials.
In terms of the design of the page, you can see that many of our pages have a simple, but hopefully easy to read layout. See our Physical Therapy and Medication page as an example. As an alternative, December 2019 interns created our Women & Girls, Pediatrics, and Concussion in Sports pages and used different types of layouts. I think the pages need to be more developed in terms of content, but you can see some design innovations.
One way to handle a lot of information is to have jump links (or anchor links) at the top of the page. It’s like a tiny menu, with the title of each section having a link that jumps down the page to that section. I wish we had jump link on all our pages, but we haven’t got to it yet. See this squarespace tutorial.
Your work space
Google Drive folder for your working documents.
Trello. We will be working with you to set up your Trello workspace.
Resources
Because Eve is a leader in this field, you will be drawing primarily from her research, although you will have the opportunity to look for other research as well. If you
Dr. Eve Valera’s presentation slides from her Guest Speaker talk. A note; Dr. Valera does not want to make these slides publicly available , so any content taken from there must be done so carefully and with citing Dr. Valera.
Here are some of Dr. Valera’s publications and research
Brain Injury in Battered Women (2003) (you read this in preparation for her presentation)
Letter to the Editor: When Pandemics Clash (2020) (you read this in preparation for her presentation)
Supplemental materials for this paper
White Matter Correlates of Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries in Women Subjected to Intimate-Partner Violence: A Preliminary Study (2019) - this study uses diffusion tensor imaging
A Global Public Health Epidemic Going Completely Untreated: Intimate Partner Violence
This article is by Nicole Fisher, who is on the CA Advisory Board. In this article, she talks about Eve’s work.
Pink Concussion’s Partner-Inflicted Brain Injury Task Force webpage for the task force calls, on which they upload the recording of the one-hour presentation as well as the presenter’s slideshows, and sometimes even detailed notes. This is a great resource for what various stakeholders are doing to try to address the IPV & TBI epidemic.
Basic information about IPV on this Pink Concussions webpage.
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