Glenn Family Foundation Booklet

CREATING THRIVING COMMUNITIES AND ELIMININATING DISPARITIES IMPACTING CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND FAMILIES

SYMPOSIUM Introduction

Chronic adversity and trauma occur when children and adults are exposed to events or situations that overwhelm their capacity to cope effectively and productively.

According to research conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mississippi is one of four states lagging in research on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), trauma, and their negative impact on individual and public health.

Additionally, Mississippi leads the nation in food insecurity and continues to show some of the highest rates of diabetes, hypertension, cancer, and obesity. These conditions have been found to be associated with

unmitigated ACEs.

Since 2019, the ACEs and Trauma Awareness Symposium has convened world-renowned experts in the field to share innovative strategies for preventing and mitigating trauma, health disparities, and food insecurity among vulnerable communities.

Mississippi needs your help to amplify our work in raising awareness of the life-long implications of toxic stress and trauma as a public health concern.

is a sibling-inspired, family-focused, and community-based 501(c)3 non-profit organization. The Foundation’s mission is to create thriving communities and eliminate disparities impacting children, youth, and families. Established in 2014, the Glenn Family Foundation honors the rich legacy of their parents, Essie B. and William Earl Glenn.

The Glenn Family Foundation’s executive board created the ACEs Awareness Foundation to help increase the community’s understanding of trauma and the effects of toxic, adverse childhood experiences on decision-making, behavior, habits, and health outcomes. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) describe various forms of abuse, neglect, and other traumatic exposures in childhood that have been associated with a wide range of adverse health outcomes in adulthood.

The ACEs Awareness Foundation, in tandem with the Glenn Family Foundation, works within communities to enlighten individuals on the life-long impact of childhood adversity and trauma, and the importance of addressing its effects on the health, safety and well-being of Mississippi Delta citizens. Addressing ACEs as a common risk factor, communities can reduce healthcare costs, promote health equity and make a meaningful impact on the quality of life of its citizens.

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Objectives

To recognize National Minority Health Month, this year’s Symposium, The Movement to Build Positive Childhood, Adult, and Community Experiences: Preventing and Mitigating Environmental Trauma and ACEs, will focus on environmental and political determinants of health that cause intergenerational trauma. The Movement to Build Positive Childhood, Adult, and Community Experiences will address these realities and highlight communities throughout the country that have been gravely impacted by poor environmental factors. The Symposium will underscore the scope of environmental traumas, focusing on building protective factors to sustain human health—physical, mental, and economic — in children, adults and their communities.

Environmental Factors

Political Determinants

Policy & Strategies

SYMPOSIUM Speakers

Eric Griggs, MD Dir. Comm. Medicine Access Health Louisana

Niesha Foster, MBA VP Global Health

Laura Dickerson, RN Labor and Delivery

Amanda Rice, MD Chief Medical Officer

Edith S. Rayford, MD OB GYN Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Central Mississippi Health Services University of Mississippi Medical Center G.A. Carmichael Family Health Center

Daniel Dawes, JD Senior VP / Exec. Director

Charlene H. Collier, MD

Nisha Pasupuleti, JD Direc. Transf. Engagement Institute of Global Health Equity Former Mayor Flint, Michigan CommonSpirit Health

Clyde E. Glenn, MD President

Essie B. and William Earl Glenn Foundation for Better Living

Howard Glenn, DMD Treasurer

Helen M Beady, Ph.D. Secretary

Essie B. and William Earl Glenn Foundation for Better Living

Essie B. and William Earl Glenn Foundation for Better Living

The Honorable KarenWeaver, PhD VP of Clinical Programs Cayaba Care

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Edward Buckles, Jr., film and television director, is a son of New Orleans. His nonlinear path to filmmaking has birthed a brand of visual storytelling – an aesthetically beautiful marriage between fine art and guerilla-style documentation. Buckles’ work calls his audience towards remembrance and to see the beauty in imperfections. The ground-breaking filmmaker, director, producer, and Dillard University alumnus continues to find inspiration in his people and innovative ways to share the stories of Black communities that would otherwise be lost in the passing of time. He was 13 when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans.

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Moderators

For more information on Symposium Speakers, navigate to page 11. Condensed biographies are featured within this document. Full bios are available by scanning the QR Code pictured in the speaker section (page 18).

Jakevia Wheeler, MPH

Mary Coleman, PhD Senior VP / COO Economic Mobility Pathways Research / Evaluation Consultant Glenn Family Foundation

Alvernica W. Lucas, DMD Dental Director Community Health Clinics

Morning Presentations

Environmental Factors and the Scope of Childhood and Adult Trauma in Disinvested Communities: Water and Lead

9:05 am - 10:05 am

10:05 am - 11:05 am

11:05 am - 12:05 pm

Session I

9:05 a.m.

Daniel Dawes, JD Senior Vice President and Executive Director Institute of Global Health Equity, Meharry Medical College

Nisha Pasupuleti, JD System Director, Population Health Transformative Strategy CommonSpirit Health

The Honorable Karen Weaver, PhD Former Mayor Flint, Michigan

Moderator: Jakevia Wheeler, MPH

Mobilizing to Prevent and Mitigate Chronic Health and Premature Death: Oral Health Care Disasters in Impoverished Environments

12:05 p.m - 1:00 p.m.

Session II

Afternoon Presentations

Howard Glenn, DMD Treasurer

12:05 p.m.

Essie B.and William Earl Glenn Foundation for Better Living

Moderator: Alvernica Whitfield, DMD

Environmental Trauma and Adverse Community Experiences Associated with Man-made and Natural Disasters

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Keynote

Edward Buckles, Jr. Director and Filmmaker

1:00 p.m.

Moderator: Eric Griggs, MD, MS

Afternoon

Presentations (Continued)

Ensuring a Strong Start for Children, Adults, and Communities: The Movement to Build and Sustain Positive Childhood, Adult, and Community Experiences

Edith-Smith Rayford, MD, OB-GYN Central Mississippi Health Services

Charlene Collier, MD, VP of Clinical Programs, Cayaba Care

2:10 p.m.

Laura Dickerson, RN Labor and Delivery, University of Mississippi Medical Center

Amanda Rice, MD Chief Medical Officer, G.A.Carmichael Family Health Center

Moderator: Mary Coleman, Ph.D.

Session IV

Symposium Synthesis

3:25 pm - 4:20 p.m.

Session V

Call-to-Action and Key Takeaways

Niesha Foster, MBA Vice President Pfizer Pharmaceuticals

Break

Clyde E. Glenn, MD President, Essie B. and William Earl Glenn Foundation for Better Living

Session VI

Thank You and Announcements 4:50 pm - 5:00 p.m.

Helen M. Beady, Ph.D. Secretary

Essie B. and William Earl Glenn Foundation for Better Living

• Connect historical and contemporary contexts to understand that policy is not race-neutral

• Understand the socio-political determinants of health inequities among under-resourced, vulnerable, and marginalized communities in the U.S.

• Advocate for the exchange of research, ideas, and information relative to the advancement of evidence-based health equityrelated policies and programs

• Examine social determinants of health and vulnerabilities of underserved communities

• Devise recommendations and strategic plans that drive systemic goals, regional partnerships, and community-facing programs for improving health and wellbeing for vulnerable populations

• Identify and leverage catalysts for health systems reform

THE HONORABLE KAREN WILLIAMS - WEAVER,

• Understand risk factors for adverse mental, behavioral, and physical health outcomes due to poisoning from lead and other water contaminants

• Identify socio-political factors contributing to the lead poisoning, disaster Flint Water Crisis

• Discuss the journey of policy reform and recovery efforts to improve the Flint, Michigan water source supply and infrastructure

• Discuss grass-roots advocacy efforts for bringing about policy reform for health equity

HOWARD GLENN, DMD

• Discuss associations of poverty and stigma with poor oral health care education and practice

• Demonstrate the correlation of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), disaster, and oral health care adversity in impoverished environments

• Examine evidence-based approaches to mobilize and sustain prevention and chronic illness and disease mitigation strategies

DANIEL DAWES, JD

NISHA PASUPULETI, JD

EDWARD BUCKLES, JR.

• Explain historic systemic inequities that plague underserved communities and contribute to generational adversity

• Discuss the disproportionate adverse impacts of man-made and natural disasters on people of color and marginalized communities

• Understand and identify where and how to take action in support of vulnerable communities before, during, and following man-made and natural disasters

RAYFORD, COLLIER, DICKERSON AND

RICE

EDITH SMITH-RAYFORD, MD; CHARLENE COLLIER, MD; LAURA DICKERSON, RN; AMANDA RICE, MD

• Provide evidence of the impacts of environmental factors on maternal, fetal and child health outcomes

• Discuss populations and communities that are at risk of increased maternal, fetal and child health disparities

• Identify opportunities to prevent poor health outcomes related to maternal, fetal, and child health

NIESHA FOSTER, MBA

• Describe strategies to promote thriving communities

• Provide an overview of how corporate investments/philanthropy promote social change

• Provide resources for the aforementioned interventions

CLYDE E. GLENN, MD

• Outline the intersections of key symposium themes/topics

• Describe action steps to address environmental insults and trauma

• Discuss policy interventions to address/mitigate the impacts of trauma

SYMPOSIUM Speakers

Amanda Rice, MD

Dr. Amanda Rice, a native Jacksonian, serves the G.A. Carmichael Family Health Center as Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Rice is also a Staff Physician and Assistant Professor in UMMC’s Family Medicine Residency Program. She is an active member of the American Family of Physicians and MS Board of Family Physicians.

Edith Smith-Rayford, MD

Dr. Edith F. Smith Rayford is the Region III Chair of the National Medical Association. She completed her chief residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA. Her passion for advancement, in the business and administration area of medicine, inspired her to acquire a physician executive MBA from the University of Tennessee.

Eric Griggs, MD, MS

Eric D. Griggs, M.D., is a New Orleans-based Community Medicine Doctor and Health Educator. He is an Assistant Professor at the LSU School of Medicine, Adjunct Professor for the Xavier University College of Pharmacy, and Director of Community Medicine at Access Health Louisiana; Dr. Griggs serves as the founder and Executive Director of the Doc Griggs Foundation, where he promotes community health.

MD

Dr. Clyde Edward Glenn completed his Residency in Psychiatry and Human Behavior at The Ohio State University Hospital Systems and Clinics in 1994. In May of 2000, Dr. Glenn founded Rehoboth Psychiatric Services. He assists clients in leading wholesome and productive lives through compassionate, patient-centered psychiatric care.

Niesha Foster is the Vice President of Product Access, Global Health & Social Impact with Pfizer Pharmaceuticals. She co-leads Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Multicultural Health Equity Collective, focusing on programs that address patient affordability challenges, creating the last mile of product access through Pfizer Rx Pathways, a Pfizer US Patients’ Assistance Program.

Helen M. Glenn-Beady is the second daughter and ninth child born to the late Essie B. & William Earl Glenn. Helen has a heart for the community and serves as secretary of the board of directors, programs, and development strategist for the Glenn Family Foundation and the ACEs Awareness Foundation.

Helen Beady, Ph.D.

Niesha Foster, MBA

Clyde E. Glenn,

Edward Buckles, Jr.

KEYNOTE Speaker (Continued)

Buckles non-linear path to filmmaking has birthed a brand of visual storytelling – an aesthetically beautiful marriage between fine art and guerilla-style documentation. Buckles’ work calls his audience towards remembrance and to see the beauty in imperfections. The ground-breaking filmmaker, director, producer, and Dillard University alumnus continues to find inspiration in his people and innovative ways to share the stories of Black communities that would otherwise be lost in the passing of time.

He was 13 when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. His family fled the city just in time, but the storm changed him forever. After years spent as an educator and filmmaker, Buckles decided to make a film about the children— including himself—who were affected by the storm.

Buckles’ production company, House of the Young Ent. is a beacon in the New Orleans’ arts community and a platform for the culture of the city. His debut documentary, Katrina Babies, is currently on HBO Max and has recently won two awards at Tribeca Festival, including its inaugural Human/Nature Award and The Albert Maysles Award for Best New Documentary Director. Katrina Babies also was nominated for Best Feature Documentary at the International Documentary Association (IDA) Awards. Buckles’ award-winning film also landed the August 2022 digital cover of Time Magazine which included a conversation between Buckles’ and awardwinning journalist Soledad O’Brien.

Notes

Environmental Factors and the Scope of Childhood and Adult Trauma in Disinvested Communities: Water and Lead

Mobilizing to Prevent and Mitigate Chronic Health and Premature Death: Oral Health Care Disasters in Impoverished Environments

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Notes

Environmental Trauma and Adverse Community Experiences Associated with Man-made and Natural Disasters

Ensuring a Strong Start for Children, Adults, and Communities: The Movement to Build and Sustain Positive Childhood, Adult, and Community Experiences

HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 47

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION COMMENDING THE ESSIE B. AND WILLIAM EARL GLENN FOUNDATION FOR BETTER LIVING ON THE OCCASION OF HOSTING ITS FOURTH COMMUNITY FOCUSED ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES TRAUMA AWARENESS SYMPOSIUM AND RECOGNIZING APRIL 20, 2023, AS ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES (ACES) TRAUMA AWARENESS DAY.

WHEREAS, the Essie B. and William Earl Glenn Foundation for Better Living will host its fourth community focused Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Trauma Awareness Symposium on April 20, 2023; and

WHEREAS, this year’s theme is “The Movement to Build Positive Childhood, Adult and Community Experiences: Preventing and Mitigating Environmental Trauma and ACEs” which will focus on environmental and political determinants of health that cause intergenerational trauma; and

WHEREAS, the symposium will also address these realities and highlight communities throughout the country that have been gravely impacted by poor environmental factors, and underscore the scope of environmental traumas, with a focus on building protective factors to sustain human health; and

WHEREAS, this foundation was created in 2014 by siblings: Howard, Helen, Clyde, John, Robert, Essie and Doris, to honor the “spirit of community” that their parents Essie B. and William Earl Glenn exuded throughout their lives, and thus, appropriately named it after their beloved parents; and

WHEREAS, the mission of the foundation is to create thriving communities and eliminate disparities impacting children, youth and families; and

WHEREAS, since its inception, the foundation has consistently worked to serve the community in various ways, such as training Cleveland schoolteachers on the Biopsychosocial Implications of a Healthy Brain, partnering with the City of Cleveland to host a socially-distanced annual health fair where more than 55 clinical providers and service organizations address the needs of uninsured and under-insured Delta citizens, and feeding nearly 7,000 community children, providing approximately 600 flu shots, 3,500 face masks and hand sanitizers and distributing over 43,500 pounds of food to needy families during its Annual Health, Wellness and Safety Tailgates; and

WHEREAS, more recently, the foundation helped launch food pantries to address college student hunger at two historically black colleges and universities, Alcorn State University and Mississippi Valley State University; and

WHEREAS, in 2020, the Glenn Family Foundation and ACEs Awareness Foundation expanded its footprint into Sunflower County to disseminate trauma-informed resources and advance the knowledge and practices of holistic health; and

WHEREAS, with the advent of COVID-19, the Glenn Family Foundation formed the Mississippi Community Trauma Coalition (MCTC), which is a collective of individuals representing advocacy, education, law, government, public and private sectors, communities of faith and healthcare with a mission to create resilient, sustainable, trauma-informed communities where children, youth and families have opportunities and support systems necessary to thrive; and

WHEREAS, it is the policy of this Legislature to honor the fine works of organizations that seek to improve the quality of life of Mississippians and provide long term solutions:

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, THE SENATE CONCURRING THEREIN, That we do hereby commend the Essie B.and William Earl Glenn Foundation for its impressive humanitarian efforts, congratulate the organization on the occasion of its fourth statewide symposium and declare April 20, 2023, as Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Trauma Awareness Day.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be furnished to the Essie B. and William Earl Glenn Foundation and to the members of the Capitol Press Corps.

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