New Handbook Edited by Associate Professor Dr. Randy Otto Offers Comprehensive Discussion of Violence Risk Assessments and Measures
The handbook should prove helpful to mental health professionals, attorneys, judges, criminal justice professionals, and others who are faced with issues surrounding risk for violence and its assessment.
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CBCS Dean Accepts Prestigious HHS Appointment
HHS secretary appoints Dr. Junius Gonzales to Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s National Advisory Council.
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Faculty Vacancy: Florida Center for Inclusive Communities Seeks Co-Director
BCS is searching for a Co-Director of the Florida Center for Inclusive Communities (FCIC), a University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD).
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Three New Tenure-Earning Faculty Positions Available within MHLP
The Department of Mental Health Law and Policy is partnering with three campus departments to hire three faculty members.
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Updated Oct. 7, 2009: BCS Awards and Accomplishments
Highlighting BCS faculty and staff recent awards and accomplishments
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BCS Announces New Faculty Employment Opportunities
BCS Announces New Faculty Employment Opportunities
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MHLP Chair Awarded $1.46 Million NIDA Grant for Research Core Center
The Department of Mental Health Law & Policy at the University of South Florida has received a $1.46 million two-year grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to support the development of a Research Core Center, entitled the USF Center on Co-Occurring Disorders, Justice, and Multidisciplinary Research (CJM Center).
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Three BCS Standouts Receive USF Successful Latino/a Student Award
School of Aging Studies student Angelica Cuevas, Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders student Xigrid Soto, and BCS staff member and College of Public Health graduate student Claudia Aguado Loi were named as recipients of the USF Successful Latino/a Student Award.
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Kearns Awarded AHRQ Grant to Study Automatic Fall Prediction System
“Evaluation and Integration of an Automatic Fall Prediction System” from the DHHS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
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James A. Haley VA Hospital to Host National Center to Address Homelessness Among Veterans in Partnership with USF
Tampa’s James A. Haley VA Hospital was selected as one of the host sites to establish the National Center on Homelessness among Veterans.
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Updated 9-28-09: BCS In the News
Read the most recent articles mentioning faculty and staff from BCS.
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Preparing for School Success: 2,500 Florida Students Benefit from Early Intervention Program
Housed within the Department of Child and Family Studies at the USF College of Behavioral and Community Sciences, the Florida HIPPY Training and Technical Assistance Center is the second largest HIPPY state office in the United States.
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CFS Faculty & Staff Recent Publishing Accomplishments
CFS faculty and staff have contributed to books scheduled to be released soon through Brookes Publishing. For 30 years, Brookes has published highly respected resources in early childhood, early intervention, inclusive and special education, developmental disabilities, learning disabilities, communication and language, behavior, and mental health.
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Oct. 9, 2009, 8 pm: MHC Building Power Outage
The MHC building will be with out power on Saturday, October 10th.
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Chiriboga Receives Hispanic Pathways Award
Creating pathways to the betterment of the lives of Latinos
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BCS Inventor Joins USF Academy of Inventors
BCS faculty member joins 100 USF inventors in newly established Academy
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The Institute for Optimal Aging and Partners Fund Studies on Continuing Care Retirement Communities
The Institute for Optimal Aging, based in Brentwood, TN, and four partners Brookdale Senior Living, HealthMEDX, Life Care Services, and Erickson Retirement Communities, have funded the first year of a longitudinal study and two pilot studies
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Important News 8-21-09: Faculty click to visit Faculty Resources page for New Syllabus Language & Guidelines
PDF files are listed under Teaching Resources, Academic Continuity
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CFS Contributes to New SAMHSA Resource Addressing Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in Substance Abuse Treatment
A new SAMHSA resource for substance abuse professionals and administrators enlisted the expertise of CFS’s Steve Roggenbaum as a field reviewer.
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FMHI and Veterans Administration team up to improve services to homeless veterans, reduce their ranks
You don’t have to go far from home to see someone on a street corner who doesn’t have a home. Too often, that homeless person is a veteran, someone who served in the U.S. military.
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BCS Shines in U.S. News & World Report Rankings
Criminology, Social Work, Rehabilitation Counseling, Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology get high marks
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Congratulations to BCS Faculty Receiving Tenure and/or Promotion
Congratulations to BCS faculty who will begin this new academic year with a promotion in rank, newly granted
tenure, or both. These advancements are earned by achieving true excellence in teaching, research, and scholarship.
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Promoting Healthy Social and Emotional Development in Children and Youth: USF President Judy Genshaft Highlights Work of FMHI
Dr. Genshaft provides Guest Perspective for "Solutions for Our Future" and profiles FMHI's role in the national evaluation of the Children’s Mental Health Initiative of the U.S. Center for Mental Health Services, an important effort to improve access to high quality services nationally.
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Dr. Ray Miltenberger Named ABAI President and Receives Outstanding Mentorship Award
The Association for Behavior Analysis International has nearly 5,000 members from 42 countries and 13,000 affiliated members worldwide.
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Professor Donna Cohen Contributes to Article on Murder-Suicide Among Older Couples
She is a leading authority on homicide-suicide in older persons, and has testified before Congress and written many books, articles and essays.
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Two Innovative Teaching Grants Awarded to BCS Faculty
Awards from the USF Center for 21st Century Teaching Excellence are designed to encourage instructional innovation and efforts to enhance student learning through new approaches.
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BCS Dean Junius Gonzales Selects Special Assistants to Help with the Establishment of the New College
BCS enrolls nearly 2,200 students in six departments and two schools.
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Distinguished Guests Lecture: Positive Development Programs for Rural African American Families
Under Brody and Murry’s leadership at the University of Georgia, two large studies were implemented to identify and track the contextual factors that promote healthy development in rural African American families.
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Drs. Albert Duchnowski and Krista Kutash Awarded $1.2 Million Grant from the Institute of Education Sciences
They will develop and document the feasibility of an intervention aimed at increasing the engagement of families in the broad educational development of their children.
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Detecting Early Signs of Dementia:
Wireless Device Developed by FMHI Assistant Professor William Kearns Profiled in MIT Technology Review.
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