Events and Initiatives

Minus 9 to 5: Minus 9 to 5 is a network of cross-sector stakeholders from education, medical, childcare, business, nonprofit, philanthropic and local and state government sectors. Together, we are committed to creating an impact on children and their families from conception to kindergarten. 

SUDPPW Collaborative: Leaders from across healthcare systems, higher education, and direct service agencies come together to align services and resources for pregnant and parenting women experiencing substance use disorder. This group meets on a monthly basis, and acts as an advisory council for the PCP SUDPPW Grant.

Joint Mental Health Summit: The Brock Institute, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and additional partners jointly sponsor an annual Joint Mental Health Summit. First established in 2014, the need for an annual summit grew out of frustrations with inefficiencies in the delivery of effective psychiatric services to acutely exacerbated patients with major psychiatric disorders and the desire to discover and correct the reasons for these inefficiencies. The Joint Mental Health Summits continue to engage stakeholders, lead discussion regarding gaps, develop strategies in collaboration with community partners to improve efficiency and effectiveness of services, and implement qualitative and quantitative measures to track improvements. The planning team for this event meets on a monthly basis.

Learn about the 2022 Population Health and Joint Mental Health Summit.

Mentally Healthy Hampton Roads: This collaborative produces a pocket resource guide of local mental health, substance use, and suicide prevention services in Hampton Roads, and engages the community in conversation on these topics. This group meets on a monthly basis.

Past Initiatives:

Clinical Guidance for Treating Pregnant and Parenting Women with Opioid Use Disorder and Their Infants: In partnership with Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, the Brock Institute hosted training targeted at teaching health care providers how to treat pregnant and parenting women with opioid use disorder, in an effort to convene regional conversations to facilitate referral relationships and coalition building.

Screening Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT): In partnership with Bon Secours, the Brock Institute hosted a training on the SBIRT model of screening and how to utilize it in a variety of settings. Healthcare professionals in emergency rooms, primary health clinics, campus health centers, and other settings have used SBIRT to quickly assess a patients' risk of substance use problems, briefly intervene, explore motivation to change their behavior and refer patients who need more extensive treatment.

Mental Health Working Group: Brock institute engages key stakeholders to clarify issues and begin the process of developing tangible and pragmatic solutions to address mental health in Eastern Virginia. This group is no longer meeting.

Asian American Health Disparities: These activities address bias and microaggressions as well as the community health needs of Asian Americans

Greater Hampton Roads Population Health Summit: This annual event gathers individuals from a variety of backgrounds, agencies, and organizations to address significant health issues and discuss how to help the region become a healthier community. The planning team for this event meets monthly.

Brock Institute Glennan Lecture: The Brock Institute Glennan Lecture series seeks to offer insights on how challenges in geriatric academic research can be addressed through various interventions and disciplines. As part of this series, the Brock Institute and Glennan Center put on an annual Community Lecture and Internal Medicine Grand Rounds event, as well as works together to develop lectures and activities on Palliative Care Medicine throughout the year.

Broc Institute Eucational Sessions: The Brock Institute invites scholars from across the nation to discuss the work that they are doing that inspires new and innovative ways to decrease health disparities and increase cultural competency.

Health Equity Inventory (HEI):In early 2022, the AAMC Center for Health Justice launched a two-year pilot with Vanderbilt University, EVMS and three other institutions to update the 2016 version of the Health Equity Inventory (HEI) tool. The goal of the 2022 version of the HEI is
to catalog health equity programs operating at EVMS and in the community to: 1) facilitate partnerships in addressing health equity programs in the region, 2) enhance existing health equity programs, and 3) improve the health equity of Hampton Roads community members.

Regional Cancer Disparities Collaborative: This group provides education around various cancers at community events and through lectures, with a special focus on addressing disparities in prevention, screening, and treatment. The collaborative meets on a bi-weekly basis, and is very active in the Hampton Roads community.

Past Initiatives:
The Brock Institute-Glennan Nutrition Symposium focuses on providing nutrition care for patients and highlights the importance of teaching future doctors and health professionals about nutrition.

Community Impact Day: Each August, incoming medical and health professions students participate in a community service event. This opportunity introduces students to local issues relating to social justice, health equity and determinants of health.

Person Centered Pathway for Substance Use Dependence in Pregnant and Parenting Women: In 2022, EVMS, ODU, and NSU were awarded $1.5 Million dollars to develop a comprehensive pathway for treating substance use disorder in pregnant and parenting women and their families through the intervention framework. With the advisory of the SUDPPW Collaborative, our partnership will collaborate to 1) expand capacity, coordination, and case management to ensure continuity of care, 2) improve connections with and transitions between diverse and complex clinical and community services under a comprehensive SUDPPW treatment pathway, and 3) establish a ‘no wrong door’ for an integrated PCP for SUDPPW in our region to be accessed by SUDPPW and families.

Schroeder Center-Brock Institute (SC-BI) Summer Fellowship: This fellowship supports research activities on campus research related to health policy analysis and health services. 

MPH Students Practicum Project: Brock Institute hosts MPH students to complete projects related to public health issues  and to apply the competencies, knowledge and skills they have acquired through their public health course work.