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Richard Briscoe Receives National Honor for Community Building and Transforming Neighborhoods NeighborWorks® America, the nation’s leading trainer of community development and affordable housing professionals, awards the Dorothy Richardson Award for Resident Leadership each year to eight community leaders from around the country.
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CFS Chair Mario Hernandez Elected as President of the Board of the National Alliance of Multi-Ethnic Behavioral Health Association A leader in the field of children’s mental health research, Dr. Hernandez has focused much effort toward improving access to services for culturally and linguistically diverse children and families who are underserved or inappropriately served in the mental health system.
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KnowHow2GO Tampa Bay program profiled by American Council on Education’s website The Institute’s Associate Dean Catherine Batsche serves as Tampa’s Project Director.
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Dr. William Kearns Profiled in Local and National Media He has developed a tracking system that may detect dementia in early stages.
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NIH Selects 3 Institute Faculty Members to Attend 2008 Summer Institute on Health Services Research Drs. Annette Christy, Norin Dollard and Amber Gum will participate in the National Institutes of Health program aimed at improving services for individuals involved in multiple health service systems.
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Dr. Lisa Brown Appointed to Disaster Mental Health Subcommittee of Presidential Commission This subcommittee will make recommendations to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) relating to catastrophic health events.
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FMHI Welcomes 2008 Summer NSF REU Students The Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) increases the research competence of students through individual research projects conducted under the guidance of a distinguished faculty mentor.
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Just Released: The National 2008 KIDS COUNT Data Book profiles youth who are involved in state juvenile justice systems USF and FMHI experts in Juvenile Justice Reform contribute to Florida's reform efforts.
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*NEW* Children's Mental Health Online E-learning Portal: A New CEU Program with a Difference The in-service training modules, which can be accessed on-line in a self-paced format, have been developed to benefit an array of behavioral health professionals, including those who work with children having social, emotional and behavioral needs, as well as those who are in leadership, supervisory, evaluation and policy-level positions.
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FMHI Hosts Florida Department of Health's Advisory Committee on Reducing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities The committee, which met to develop an action plan for the current year, advises the Florida Department of Health's Office of Minority Affairs on matters related to health disparities.
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Faculty Profile: Lawrence Schonfeld's BRITE Project Recently Profiled in News The BRief Intervention and Treatment for Elders (BRITE) program is offered by 16 provider agencies throughout Florida to identify and serve elders with problems related to alcohol, prescription medications, over-the-counter medications, or illicit drug use.
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Editorial by FMHI Faculty Roger Peters in St. Petersburg Times The editorial, "Locking up Florida's Addicts too Expensive, Ineffective," ran April 3, 2008.
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Editorial by FMHI Faculty Rick Weinberg in Tampa Tribune As a marriage and family psychologist, Dr. Weinberg shares thoughts on therapeutic speech and barriers to solutions.
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FMHI Awarded Two Grants from the National Institute of Mental Health Two grants have been recently awarded to the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute from the National Institute of Mental Health, the largest scientific organization in the world dedicated to research focused on the understanding, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders and the promotion of mental health.
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Dr. Karen Berkman Selected by Governor Crist to be on New Task Force on Autism Spectrum Disorders Dr. Berkman is Director of the Center for Autism and Related Disabilities-USF, housed at FMHI.
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