Elizabeth Salerno Valdez
Biographic Data
| ID | 134519 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Salerno Valdez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth Salerno |
| FAMILY NAME | Valdez |
| SIGNATURE | VALDEZ E S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Drexel University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8160-8138 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Going beyond participation
Introduction: In Philadelphia there are racial disparities in health outcomes during the perinatal period, such that Black infants and their parents experience a disproportionately higher burden of poor outcomes compared to their White counterparts. These excess risks are driven at least in part by high rates of poverty and other manifestations of structural racism. The provision of guaranteed income (GI) or unconditional cash payments during and…
‘It Helped to Calm Me’
BACKGROUND: Research on the benefits of cannabis use continues to expand, and those benefits may extend to parents and pregnant people. However, there are few studies that examine perspectives of pregnant and parenting individuals who use cannabis, and no studies with parents who are medical cannabis patients for treatment of qualifying conditions (e.g., chronic pain, anxiety). METHODS: We used a thematic content analysis approach to analyze 24 s…
Role Strain Among Parents Who are Medical Cannabis Patients in Pennsylvania
As medical cannabis legalization expands in the United States, more parents and people of child-bearing age are becoming medical cannabis patients (MCP). This analysis uses the theory of role strain to explore how parents navigate being an MCP in Pennsylvania. Twenty four semi-structured qualitative interviews with parents from an ongoing registry study of MCP were analyzed using an a priori codebook and complemented by codes to capture emergent …
Using youth participatory action research to explore the impacts of structural violence on LGBTQIA + youth health
Queerphobia is defined as society's negative attitude towards LGBTQIA + people, translating into structures that marginalise LGBTQIA + people and contribute to health inequities that cause real harm and can be understood as structural violence. The purpose of this article is to explore what historically marginalised youth in a youth participatory action research (YPAR) project characterise as the big picture issues affecting the lives of LGBTQIA …
So, This Is Actually Going to Somebody, Right
Community-engaged, participatory approaches to designing and evaluating public health initiatives center the experiences, perspectives, and knowledge of community members at every stage of the process. A peer support group for racialized and minoritized parents under 25 years of age in the northeastern United States was designed, facilitated, and evaluated with the participation of peer leaders who shared expertise and strategies for navigating c…
Participatory Action Research to Explore the Role of Structural Violence on Marginalized and Racialized Young Parents
Structural inequities influence young parents’ access to health care, housing, transportation, social support, education, and income. The current study adds to the extant literature by providing data directly obtained in collaboration with young parents to understand how structural violence affects the health and well-being of their families, ultimately resulting in community-driven policy recommendations developed in collaboration with the state…
PAR to explore trust and mistrust of marginalized young parents as social service recipients
On caring and a love ethic to address the effects of structural violence on adolescent health
The Need for Community-Responsive and Flexible Sex Ed for Historically Marginalized Youth
Mind the Gaps
Adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) inequities are well documented for historically excluded youth (i.e., youth of color, LGBTQIA+ youth, youth with disabilities, recently im/migrated youth) living in the U.S. Northeast. However, the lived experience of male-identifying young people from historically excluded backgrounds in ASRH remains largely unexamined. The purpose of this paper is to present findings related to male-identified pe…
‘It’s whether or not you got people’
Efforts to address adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) inequities often aim to improve school-based sexuality education and reduce individual risk behaviours. Structural determinants are more rarely the focus of interventions. The youth service providers who formed the community advisory board for this community-based participatory research project identified school-based opportunities to improve ASRH by mitigating the impact of soci…
Does high family support protect against substance use in adolescents who perceive high disordered neighborhood stress, border community and immigration stress or normalization of drug trafficking at …
Prevention programs tailored to the U.S.-Mexico border region should emphasize strengthening family support as a preventive factor against adolescent substance use. Family support should be considered in school counseling assessments, healthcare screenings and other social services
Structural Racism and Its Influence On Sexual and Reproductive Health Inequities Among Immigrant Youth
US-Mexico Border Stress and Daily Substance Use Among Latino Youth
The Gendered Effects of Local Immigration Enforcement
The 2017 revitalization of the controversial Security Communities program, which requires local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration officials in the United States, has made it urgent to better understand such enforcement programs’ effects on the well-being of Latinas/os, especially the foreign-born. Social isolation from increased immigration enforcement can have significant impacts on economic, social, and health outcomes among…
Shifting to Virtual CBPR Protocols in the Time of Corona Virus/Covid-19
COVID-19 has upended community based participatory research (CBPR) projects across the United States and globally. COVID-19 disproportionately impacts historically disenfranchised communities and communities of color, the very communities that CBPR is meant to engage, elevate, and support. In-person activities that help develop rapport and research protocols, build capacity, conduct collaborative data collection and analysis, disseminate findings…
How the U.S.-Mexico border influences adolescent substance use
Developing a Binational Community-Based Participatory Research Partnership to Address Reproductive Health on the U.S.–Mexico Border
We learned how to use existing networks to form the partnership and leverage resources to address an existing health disparity. We learned the importance of engaging in effective communication with partners and the necessity of flexibility when working within a different governmental culture. We learned how to leverage critical partnerships to bridge national, cultural, and linguistic differences to conduct binational partnership research, and to…
Immigration Enforcement, the Racialization of Legal Status, and Perceptions of the Police
The immigration enforcement system today affects different subgroups of Latinos; it reaches beyond the undocumented to immigrants who hold legal statuses and even to the U.S.-born. States have enacted their own enforcement collaboration agreements with federal authorities and thus Latinos may have dissimilar experiences based on where they live. This article examines the effects of enforcement schemes on Latinos' likelihood of reporting crimes to…
Funding and Teaching Challenges Facing Faith-Based Organizing
Faith-based organizing in the United States faces two major practical challenges: funding its work and teaching its approach to the next generation of pastors. With these challenges in mind, the editors asked Sheila Greeve Davaney, until recently a programme officer with the Ford Foundation, to reflect on her experience of funding the work of faith-based organizing networks. John Bowlin, a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and Jarrett K…
Immigration Enforcement, the Racialization of Legal Status, and Perceptions of the Police
The immigration enforcement system today affects different subgroups of Latinos; it reaches beyond the undocumented to immigrants who hold legal statuses and even to the U.S.-born. States have enacted their own enforcement collaboration agreements with federal authorities and thus Latinos may have dissimilar experiences based on where they live. This article examines the effects of enforcement schemes on Latinos' likelihood of reporting crimes to…
Shifting to Virtual CBPR Protocols in the Time of Corona Virus/Covid-19
COVID-19 has upended community based participatory research (CBPR) projects across the United States and globally. COVID-19 disproportionately impacts historically disenfranchised communities and communities of color, the very communities that CBPR is meant to engage, elevate, and support. In-person activities that help develop rapport and research protocols, build capacity, conduct collaborative data collection and analysis, disseminate findings…
The Gendered Effects of Local Immigration Enforcement
The 2017 revitalization of the controversial Security Communities program, which requires local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration officials in the United States, has made it urgent to better understand such enforcement programs’ effects on the well-being of Latinas/os, especially the foreign-born. Social isolation from increased immigration enforcement can have significant impacts on economic, social, and health outcomes among…
Developing a Binational Community-Based Participatory Research Partnership to Address Reproductive Health on the U.S.–Mexico Border
We learned how to use existing networks to form the partnership and leverage resources to address an existing health disparity. We learned the importance of engaging in effective communication with partners and the necessity of flexibility when working within a different governmental culture. We learned how to leverage critical partnerships to bridge national, cultural, and linguistic differences to conduct binational partnership research, and to…
Funding and Teaching Challenges Facing Faith-Based Organizing
Faith-based organizing in the United States faces two major practical challenges: funding its work and teaching its approach to the next generation of pastors. With these challenges in mind, the editors asked Sheila Greeve Davaney, until recently a programme officer with the Ford Foundation, to reflect on her experience of funding the work of faith-based organizing networks. John Bowlin, a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and Jarrett K…
Funding and Teaching Challenges Facing Faith-Based Organizing
Faith-based organizing in the United States faces two major practical challenges: funding its work and teaching its approach to the next generation of pastors. With these challenges in mind, the editors asked Sheila Greeve Davaney, until recently a programme officer with the Ford Foundation, to reflect on her experience of funding the work of faith-based organizing networks. John Bowlin, a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and Jarrett K…
Immigration Enforcement, the Racialization of Legal Status, and Perceptions of the Police
The immigration enforcement system today affects different subgroups of Latinos; it reaches beyond the undocumented to immigrants who hold legal statuses and even to the U.S.-born. States have enacted their own enforcement collaboration agreements with federal authorities and thus Latinos may have dissimilar experiences based on where they live. This article examines the effects of enforcement schemes on Latinos' likelihood of reporting crimes to…
How the U.S.-Mexico border influences adolescent substance use
Developing a Binational Community-Based Participatory Research Partnership to Address Reproductive Health on the U.S.–Mexico Border
We learned how to use existing networks to form the partnership and leverage resources to address an existing health disparity. We learned the importance of engaging in effective communication with partners and the necessity of flexibility when working within a different governmental culture. We learned how to leverage critical partnerships to bridge national, cultural, and linguistic differences to conduct binational partnership research, and to…
Shifting to Virtual CBPR Protocols in the Time of Corona Virus/Covid-19
COVID-19 has upended community based participatory research (CBPR) projects across the United States and globally. COVID-19 disproportionately impacts historically disenfranchised communities and communities of color, the very communities that CBPR is meant to engage, elevate, and support. In-person activities that help develop rapport and research protocols, build capacity, conduct collaborative data collection and analysis, disseminate findings…
The Gendered Effects of Local Immigration Enforcement
The 2017 revitalization of the controversial Security Communities program, which requires local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration officials in the United States, has made it urgent to better understand such enforcement programs’ effects on the well-being of Latinas/os, especially the foreign-born. Social isolation from increased immigration enforcement can have significant impacts on economic, social, and health outcomes among…
Structural Racism and Its Influence On Sexual and Reproductive Health Inequities Among Immigrant Youth
US-Mexico Border Stress and Daily Substance Use Among Latino Youth
The Need for Community-Responsive and Flexible Sex Ed for Historically Marginalized Youth
Mind the Gaps
Adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) inequities are well documented for historically excluded youth (i.e., youth of color, LGBTQIA+ youth, youth with disabilities, recently im/migrated youth) living in the U.S. Northeast. However, the lived experience of male-identifying young people from historically excluded backgrounds in ASRH remains largely unexamined. The purpose of this paper is to present findings related to male-identified pe…
‘It’s whether or not you got people’
Efforts to address adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) inequities often aim to improve school-based sexuality education and reduce individual risk behaviours. Structural determinants are more rarely the focus of interventions. The youth service providers who formed the community advisory board for this community-based participatory research project identified school-based opportunities to improve ASRH by mitigating the impact of soci…
Does high family support protect against substance use in adolescents who perceive high disordered neighborhood stress, border community and immigration stress or normalization of drug trafficking at …
Prevention programs tailored to the U.S.-Mexico border region should emphasize strengthening family support as a preventive factor against adolescent substance use. Family support should be considered in school counseling assessments, healthcare screenings and other social services
Participatory Action Research to Explore the Role of Structural Violence on Marginalized and Racialized Young Parents
Structural inequities influence young parents’ access to health care, housing, transportation, social support, education, and income. The current study adds to the extant literature by providing data directly obtained in collaboration with young parents to understand how structural violence affects the health and well-being of their families, ultimately resulting in community-driven policy recommendations developed in collaboration with the state…
PAR to explore trust and mistrust of marginalized young parents as social service recipients
On caring and a love ethic to address the effects of structural violence on adolescent health
‘It Helped to Calm Me’
BACKGROUND: Research on the benefits of cannabis use continues to expand, and those benefits may extend to parents and pregnant people. However, there are few studies that examine perspectives of pregnant and parenting individuals who use cannabis, and no studies with parents who are medical cannabis patients for treatment of qualifying conditions (e.g., chronic pain, anxiety). METHODS: We used a thematic content analysis approach to analyze 24 s…
Role Strain Among Parents Who are Medical Cannabis Patients in Pennsylvania
As medical cannabis legalization expands in the United States, more parents and people of child-bearing age are becoming medical cannabis patients (MCP). This analysis uses the theory of role strain to explore how parents navigate being an MCP in Pennsylvania. Twenty four semi-structured qualitative interviews with parents from an ongoing registry study of MCP were analyzed using an a priori codebook and complemented by codes to capture emergent …
Using youth participatory action research to explore the impacts of structural violence on LGBTQIA + youth health
Queerphobia is defined as society's negative attitude towards LGBTQIA + people, translating into structures that marginalise LGBTQIA + people and contribute to health inequities that cause real harm and can be understood as structural violence. The purpose of this article is to explore what historically marginalised youth in a youth participatory action research (YPAR) project characterise as the big picture issues affecting the lives of LGBTQIA …
So, This Is Actually Going to Somebody, Right
Community-engaged, participatory approaches to designing and evaluating public health initiatives center the experiences, perspectives, and knowledge of community members at every stage of the process. A peer support group for racialized and minoritized parents under 25 years of age in the northeastern United States was designed, facilitated, and evaluated with the participation of peer leaders who shared expertise and strategies for navigating c…
Going beyond participation
Introduction: In Philadelphia there are racial disparities in health outcomes during the perinatal period, such that Black infants and their parents experience a disproportionately higher burden of poor outcomes compared to their White counterparts. These excess risks are driven at least in part by high rates of poverty and other manifestations of structural racism. The provision of guaranteed income (GI) or unconditional cash payments during and…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Participatory action research (9 works) · Citizen journalism (7 works) · Community-based participatory research (6 works) · Environmental health (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Community Health and Development (5 works)