成人直播 School of Social Work receives grant to fund the Community Access to Child Health in Maine Project
The School of Social Work at 成人直播 has been awarded a three-year, $996,260 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources Administration (HRSA). The Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training for Professionals and Paraprofessionals grant will fund the Community Access to Child Health in Maine (CATCH-ME) Project.
The purpose of this project is to increase the number of clinical social workers, and provide them with the attitudes, skills and knowledge necessary to excel in the field. Grant funds will provide Master鈥檚 of Social Work students with $10,000 stipends to train in the field of child, adolescent and family risk prevention, intervention and treatment.
Health professionals, parents and community members will collaborate to develop the project鈥檚 educational and curricular design. Shelley Cohen Konrad, Ph.D., LCSW, FNAP, will serve as primary investigator with Kerry Dunn, J.D., Ph.D., School of Social Work, and Leslie Ochs, Pharm.D., Ph.D., College of Pharmacy as co-directors.
Contributing to the grant team are Danielle Wozniak, Ph.D., David Prichard, Ph.D., Ellen Rondina, M.S.W., Wanda Anderson, M.S.W., and Kelli Fox, M.S.W., from the School of Social Work, and Nicole O鈥橞rien, M.A., from the School of Community and Population Health.