Psychiatr News April 21, 2006
Volume 41, Number 8, page 24
© 2006 American Psychiatric Association
Medical Schools Win Grants For Community Projects
Tara Burkholder
Tara Burkholder is the marketing communications manager of the American
Psychiatric Foundation.
The American Psychiatric Foundation awards its first annual Helping
Hands Grants to fund community mental health service projects.
The American Psychiatric Foundation (APF) has selected three universities
to receive the first annual Helping Hands Grants. Each school will receive a
$5,000 grant for a community mental health service project initiated and
managed by medical students under the supervision of medical faculty. The
awards are made possible through an unrestricted educational grant from Otsuka
America Pharmaceutical Inc.
The foundation, which is dedicated to advancing public understanding that
mental illnesses are real and can be effectively treated, approved the
following grants:
- Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of
Medicine, is receiving a grant for Bustin' Loose About Sharing Thoughts: A
Student Mental Health Education Initiative (BLAST!). The initiative will
establish an innovative intervention for fifth graders in East Cleveland to
improve their awareness and understanding of mental health issues and help
them learn coping strategies. Medical students Beverly Jong, Christine Baran,
Leonid Cherkassky, Julia Head, Carl Koch, and Sherwin Yen are participating in
the initiative.
- University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey is receiving a grant to
develop, design, and produce culturally competent informational materials for
the community that focus on mental health literacy and education with the
incorporation of routine screening for mental disorders at the New Jersey
Medical School Family Health Care Center. The center is a free student-run
community health center for uninsured and underinsured people of Newark.
Medical student Christian Reusche is leading the initiative.
- University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine is receiving a grant
for the Maternal Obstetric Outreach and Depression Screening program (MOODS),
which will improve identification and treatment of women with postpartum mood
disorders in underserved populations. Medical students Nicole James, Andree
Leroy, and Jennifer Rhee are participating in the initiative.
"We are pleased to provide funding to these schools for the valuable
community mental health activities being undertaken by students," said
APF President Altha Stewart, M.D. "These students are the future of our
profession, and I am proud that they are taking the initiative to work with
underserved populations."
The Helping Hands Grant Program raises awareness of mental illness and the
importance of early recognition and builds an interest among medical students
in psychiatry and service in underserved communities.
More information is posted online at
<www.psychfoundation.org>.
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