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University Grant Program Reports

2017

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Improving Educators’ Understanding Of Rural Children’S Mental Health, Lindsey Nichols Sep 2017

Improving Educators’ Understanding Of Rural Children’S Mental Health, Lindsey Nichols

University Grant Program Reports

The purpose of this grant was to develop a new mental health literacy curriculum, “ENGAGE (Educators Navigating and Generating Approaches for Genuine Engagement): Understanding the Complexity of Mental Health in Schools,” that can be specifically tailored for rural school communities, including a sustainable train-the-trainers model. The interprofessional development group used their knowledge from implementing and researching a similar, yet lacking program on mental health facilitation for K-12 educators. With development rights to the training, the PI and a colleague (Goforth) are pursuing federal funding with submission in August 2017 to the Institute of Education Sciences: Social and Behavioral Context for …