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USF College of Behavioral & Community Sciences December 14, 2015 - January 3, 2016
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 To increase public awareness of critical children's issues and generate a public dialogue about them, The Children's Campaign is organizing and hosting a series of Step Up for Kids Town Hall Meetings throughout Florida. Norin Dollard, PhD, was one of the panelist at the December 9th meeting in Tallahassee. Read more...
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 Secretary of the Department of Elder Affairs Samuel Verghese appointed Kathryn Hyer, PhD, MPP, Professor in School of Aging Studies and Director of the Florida Policy Exchange Center on Aging to be the DOEA representative on the Gold Seal Panel of the Governor's Panel on Excellence in Long-Term Care. Her term is effective immediately and continues through December 2017. The Gold Seal panel determines which nursing homes are given the Gold Seal, the highest quality rating for nursing homes in Florida. The panel monitors and enforces the standards for excellence in nursing home care. Dr. Hyer conducts research on nursing home quality and teaches in the School of Aging Studies BS in Long-term care administration program.
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 Mark Englehardt, MS, MSW, ACSW, the Director of the Florida Criminal Justice, Mental Health & Substance Abuse Technical Assistance Center at the Florida Mental Health Institute at the University of South Florida, will be speaking on "Sequential Intercept Mapping - Cross-System Improvement," one of the latest cutting-edge trends in the criminal justice/behavioral healthcare system. Engelhardt will deliver the speech at the opening day luncheon during the Florida Smart Justice Alliance Summit to be held on December 14-16, 2015. SIMS is a recent federal initiative that is designed to show the numerous intersections between the two systems and how best a client can be treated anywhere along the entire continuum.
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| Date | Time | Location | | Wednesday, December 16, 2015 | 10:00am - 4:00pm | MHC 1123 |
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Four bodies in Elmhurst
New York Times Magazine
Donna Cohen is a psychologist and professor at the University of South Florida who studies murder-suicides, particularly among aging caregivers
Step Up for Kids Tallahassee Town Hall Meeting
Capital Soup
Norin Dollard, PhD, research assistant professor, University of South Florida Department of Family and Child Studies
Feelings of vengeance influence sexual behaviors among MSM with HIV
Healio
Vengeance is defined as the extent to which individuals may inflict punishment or retaliate for a perceived wrong," Monique Brown, PhD, MD, of the University of South Florida, told Infectious Disease News.
Study will help guide Community Foundation's Sun City Center grants
Tampa Bay Times
The University of South Florida's Urban Studies students, led by Robin Ersing, an associate professor in the School of Social Work, and USF's Florida Institute of Government will conduct the six-month study.
Minneapolis budgets $300,000 for police bias training
Minnesota Public Radio
Lorie Fridell, a professor of criminology at the University of South Florida, trained some of the officers in Minneapolis. She said implicit bias can affect behavior even in individuals who reject stereotypes.
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