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Human Trafficking:
More Prevalent than You Think
Human Trafficking Awareness Week, April 2019, SpeakerS: Austin Oberlin M4 & Fidelma rigby MD
Post Partum Depression Discussion Panel with Delegate Roxann Robinson, OD
May 2019: Fidelma Rigby MD, Natasha Sriramna MD, Martha V. Tutrani
Training the Medical Staff at Bon Secours:
Who Is In Your Waiting Room?
May 2019, Lunch & Learn Series. Speaker: Jessica Chaoul, M4,
Human Trafficking:
What it Is and How You Can Help
Oct 2019: Speaker: fidelma Rigby MD
Human Trafficking Training for Community Stakeholders
Oct 2019, Speakers: Robin Foster, MD & Fidelma Rigby MD
Trafficked Patients are Among Us:
How You Can Help
Oct 2019, Speaker: Fidelma rigby MD
Training fellow Medical Students:
Recognizing and Responding to Human Trafficking in the Healthcare Setting
Oct 2019, Lunch & Learn Series
Speaker: CaiTlin Hauser M4
Training the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Clinic Staff @ VCU Health: Recognizing and Responding to Human Trafficking in the Healthcare Setting
Nov 2019, Lunch & Learn Series
Speaker: Matthew Wishnoff M4
Trafficked Patients are Among Us.
Learn How You Can Help
Nov 2019, Speaker: Fidelma Rigby MD
Campus-wide Awareness Event:
Human Trafficking is Everywhere.
Learn How to Recognize it and Prevent It.
Jan 2020, Speakers: Hannah Rak m4 & Sid Hariharan m4
Human Trafficking:
VCUHS Educational Tackling of the Issue
Mar 2020: Speaker: Hannah Rak M4, Fidelma Rigby MD, Faculty Liaison
NEUROLOGY GRAND ROUNDS:
Human Trafficking, The Invisible Crime Neurology Can Uncover
Mar 2020: Speaker: Fidelma rigby MD
EPIDEMIOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES:
The Crucial Role of Public Health in Addressing the Human Trafficking Crisis
May 2020, Speakers: Fidelma RigBy MD,
Fay Chelmow Rn
UVA PEDIATRICS GRAND ROUNDS:
Recognizing & Responding to Survivors of Human Trafficking
Nov 2020, Speaker Panel: Fay Chelmow RN, Angella Alvernaz, Katherine Deye, MD
Training fellow Medical Students:
The Importance of Human Trafficking Awareness and Response
Nov 2020, Speakers: Nidhi Agrawal M2, Sarah Beaverson M2, Anu narayanan M2. Sarah shapiro M2, Caitlin Womack m2
How Can Physicians Engage with Local Nonprofits to Effect Change? What is the Potential Value added?
Jan 2021, Guest Speaker:
Fay Chelmow RN
Program Coordinator:
Mariya Husain m4
CAMPUS-WIDE EVENT: Virtual Workshop on Stages of Change Model of Care and Motivational Interviewing to teach communication and listening skills
April 2021, Guest Speaker:
Candace Wheeler, MA, LPC, EMDRII, NCC.
Program Coordinator:
Gurjas Bajaj m4
MEDICAL STUDENT RESEARCH INITIATIVE: Studying the Phenomenon of "Sugaring" on College Campuses in Virginia.
2021 Medical Student Researchers:
Lauren Hanley, Kathleen Pugh, Maryam Farooqui, Sarah Beaverson, Vashali Jain
Medical Students lead Women Leading Healthy Change at Chesterfield County Jail.
February 2022, M4 inaugural coordinators: Andrea Gartaric, Elizabeth Kazarian, Katherine Murphy
Fourth-year medical students adapt the Leading Healthy Change Program for residents in Recovery at McShin Center. The multi-session curriculum includes a lesson on human trafficking awareness.
February 2023: inaugural coordinator, Duru Ergun, M4
Fourth-year medical students adapt the Leading Healthy Change curriculum for ALL youth at Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Facility. The multi-session program includes a session on human trafficking.
February 2023: Inaugrual coordinators, MichAEL Kusnet, M4, and T'Keyah Vaughn, M4.
First Prize
Acceptance and Awareness of Sugaring Relationships in the VCU Community. Congratulations!
May 2023: Lauren Hanley, M3, Sarah Beaverson, M3, Kathleen Pugh, M3, Vashali Jain, M3
August 2023:
Recipient of the 1st Silent Hero Award
What an honor! Thank you, Tanya Gould, for nominating me for The 1st Silent hero award from Jason Miyares, Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Virginia
DECEMBER 2023:
Bureau of Justice Administration (BJA) Grant AWARDED! "Project Belong" will provide trauma-informed programming for youth at Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Facility.
"Project Belong" will be spear-headed by GAry Cuddeback, PhD, InteriM dean, VCU Department of Social Work and Michael Ito, Phd, Research Director, Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice. Congratulations!
Fourth-year medical student Michael Russell works with VCU School of Medicine to add McShin as a placement site in the Addiction Medicine Elective.
To be piloted soon
Partnered with Christopher Moon, MD, Medical Director, Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Facility, and David Chelmow, MD, VCU Department of Ob/Gyn, to bring on-site Women's Care to youth.
To be piloted soon
Partnered with Ashaki McNeil, Deputy Director of Education, Intervention, and Re-entry, Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice, to develop a year-round mentoring program for youth at Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Facility.
TO be piloted soon
January 30, 2024:
1st Symposium on Human Trafficking at Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Facility
Event Coordinators:
Michael V. Lowery II, Community Manager, Bon Air Juvenile Correctional, and Fay Chelmow, President, ImPACTvirginia.org
The people who are most vulnerable to falling prey to human traffickers are those whose lives have intersected with the juvenile justice system. Thank you, Michael V. Lowery II, Community Manager, Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Facility, for making this inaugural event happen
Thank you, Melodie Martin, Public Information Officer, Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice, for publicizing our event.
Our Symposium Keynote Speaker, Honorable Tanya Gould, Lived Experience Expert and Anti-Human Trafficking Director, Office of the Attorney General, Commonwealth of Virginia
Thank you, Tanya Gould, for your unrelenting inspiring spirit and compassionate leadership in our state's fight to end human trafficking
February 2024:
Human Trafficking training for healthcare providers at SOVAH Health
Thank you, FideLMA RIGBY, MD, Professor, DepartmenT of OB/GYN, VCU HEalth, For your tireless anti-trafficking efforts
March 2024: VCU's ENT Department requests training on human trafficking to fulfill a new state mandate that requires physicians complete 1 CEU of training on human trafficking prior to renewal of medical licensure.
Thank you, FideLMA RIGBY, MD, Professor, DepartmenT of OB/GYN, VCU HEalth, For your tireless anti-trafficking efforts
April 2024: Human Trafficking Presentation for the Henrico County Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
Thank you, Shavon Moore, Chair, International Awareness and InvoLVEMENT Committee, For inviting me to Present. It's an honor to have new Allies in the cause to Prevent human trafficking
July 2024:
EDUCATION ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Presenter:
Fidelma Rigby, MD, Professor, OB/GYN, VCU Health
November 2024:
EDUCATION ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Presenter:
Fidelma Rigby, MD, Professor, OB/GYN, VCU Health
March 2025:
Medical students educate the rising M3s about human trafficking at the M3 orientation
PresenterS:
Rising 4th-yr Medical students
Victoria Shi, Kayla TRan,and Lily Chang
March 2025:
Educating the student body about Human Trafficking at Richard Bland College
PresenterS:
Tanya Gould, Director, Human Trafficking Response Program, Office of the Attorney General of Virginia
June 2025: GRAND ROUNDS
VCUHS Community Memorial Hospital
Presenter:
Fidelma Rigby, MD, Professor, OB/GYN, VCU Health
