Determining Family Resilience with Dr. Jason Yaun, Medical Director of the Family Resilience Initiative at Le Bonheur Children’s Outpatient Clinic

Join me for an informative conversation with Dr. Jason Yaun. Dr. Yaun is the Medical Director of the Family Resilience Initiative (FRI) at Le Bonheur Children’s Outpatient Clinic in Memphis, Tennessee. The FRI is an initiative that aims to intervene with children and their families in the Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) and Adverse Childhood Experiences, or ACEs. The FRI serves families with children 9 months to 5 years of age. These families are connected with Outreach Coordinators as part of routine care and various interventions are implemented based on answers from the ACEs questionnaire. As part of the care, families may be connected with a psychologist or other services offered by Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and other services available in Memphis and surrounding communities.

Dr. Yaun talks about the goals of the FRI and supporting families and “meeting them where they are” in their life and circumstance stage. The FRI is making connections for families and hopes to provide a model for other clinics to be able to follow.

More About Dr. Yaun:
Dr. Jason Yaun is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, Tennessee. He is the Outpatient General Pediatrics Division Chief and the Medical Director of the UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists General Pediatrics Clinic at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, which serves as the academic teaching practice for UTHSC. Dr. Yaun was born and raised in Memphis, completing medical school and residency training at the University of Tennessee before joining the faculty there. He is currently the Vice President and President-Elect of the Tennessee Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. In addition to his clinical duties, Dr. Yaun is involved with education, clinical research, and advocacy. He has authored papers on improving vaccination rates, early literacy promotion in primary care, and currently has grant funding for ongoing work to research adverse childhood experiences. In the community, he serves on the boards of Books from Birth Shelby County and Literacy Mid-South.

Links to Dr. Yaun’s Bios:
https://www.lebonheur.org/doctors/jason-yaun/

https://www.uthsc.edu/faculty/profile/?netid=jyaun

Follow Dr. Yaun on social media! Twitter: @JasonYaunMD and LinkedIn: JasonYaunMD.

Information on ACEs:
https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/index.html

https://acestoohigh.com/got-your-ace-score/

Still Face experiment video link: https://youtu.be/apzXGEbZht0

Tennessee’s Building Strong Brains Initiative: https://www.tn.gov/dcs/program-areas/child-health/aces.html#:~:text=Building%20Strong%20Brains%3A%20Tennessee%20ACEs,the%20most%20promising%20approach%20to

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