EDC Student Receives Funding From the Mid-Atlantic Regional Public Health Training Center

Dec 7, 2023 | News

EDC PhD student, Sarah Scott, received funding from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Public Health Training Center to define thriving in young adults after experiencing relationship abuse using arts-based research methods.

EDC PhD student, Sarah Scott, received funding from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Public Health Training Center to complete a collaborative project with Dr. Elizabeth Miller (BCHS) to define thriving in young adults after experiencing relationship abuse using an arts-based research methods, Visual Voices. This community based participatory research study will examine how young adults who have experienced teen economic abuse define thriving after leaving the relationship. The objectives of this research project are to engage community members in an arts-based project that explores how young adults who experienced teen economic abuse, specifically educational and employment sabotage, define “thriving” after leaving the relationship and to inform resource development and supports for survivors of teen economic abuse. Participants will participate in a Visual Voices research study. They will paint, draw, and write about what thriving means after leaving their relationship and needed support.

More information about the Mid-Atlantic Regional Public Health Training Center Collaborative Project opportunity can be found here:

https://lms.marphtc.pitt.edu/mod/page/view.php?id=256

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