Undergraduates Anne Berset and Bristi Basu, with supervision from Dr. Sarah Watamura, conducted the Seedlings© Strengths and Needs Assessment this spring quarter with assistance from a DU Grand Challenges Advancing Community Engaged (ACE) Student Grant. The Seedlings© program was developed by Dr. Watamura in partnership with Growing Home, a local community partner, and is a community-based parental program offering scientific knowledge on adversity and teaching stress management techniques that aim to equip parents with social connections and tools to process trauma and thus interrupt its intergenerational transmission. Preliminary evaluation of Seedlings© data indicated statistically significant reductions after program participation in general anxiety symptoms, parental defensive responding, and parental distress, along with increases in parental efficacy and active coping. This initial data support the efficacy of Seedlings© and its model of change.
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