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USF College of Behavioral & Community Sciences January 2 - 8, 2017
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Conference Speakers Set
The speakers for the 30th Annual Research & Policy Conference on Child, Adolescent, and Young Adult Behavioral Health to be held in Tampa on March 5-8, 2017 have been announced including:
- Anthony Biglan, PhD, Senior Scientist at the Oregon Research Institute and the Co-Director of the Promise Neighborhood Research Consortium, Portland, OR
- Nancy Lublin, Founder and CEO of Crisis Text Line, New York, NY
- Ian Manion, PhD, C. Psych Youth Mental Health Research Unit of the Royal Institute of Mental Health Research, Ottawa, Ontario
- Gary M. Blau, PhD, Chief of the Child, Adolescent and Family Branch at the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
- Larke Huang, PhD, Director, Office of Behavioral Health Equity, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Rockville, MD
- Daniel E. Dawes, JD, Executive Director of Health Policy and External Afairs at Morehouse School of Medicine
More information, including registration and preliminary draft agenda is available here.
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Strategic Planning Town Hall Meeting
All CBCS Faculty & Staff are invited to attend an open forum to discuss the CBCS revised mission, vision, and SWOT Analysis;
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Deadline Extended for Undergraduate Research Assistantships: 2017 Mom's Project Assistantships
The deadline for applications for undergraduate research assistantships to be offered through a special program known as The Moms Project has been extended through January 31, 2017. An award of $500 each will be awarded to undergraduate students who will be conducting research during the Spring and/or Summer semesters, 2017. In order to be eligible for The Moms Project Assistantships, students must be:
- Completing an undergraduate major or minor in the College of Behavioral & Community Sciences;
- Conducting research in one of the three priority areas of The Moms Project:
- Substance abuse
- Nutrition and well being
- Positive aging
- Collaborating with a CBCS faculty member and/or doctoral student who will serve as a research mentor for the undergraduate student.
The application may be found here. The priority areas may be broadly interpreted and some examples are provided on the webpage to demonstrate the wide range of possibilities. Additional information about the Moms Project, including previous recipients, may be found here.
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CBCS In the News
Finish Graduate School Requirements Online After College
U.S News & World Report
In some cases, students might enroll in just one online course or the few they need to satisfy grad school requirements. That's an option in USF's online postbac program in speech-language pathology, says Kyna Betancourt, director of the language-speech-hearing undergraduate program.
Florida's sentencing system: It fails to account for prejudice
The Ledger
"It took us a lifetime to develop our biases," said Lorie Fridell, a University of South Florida criminology professor and expert on bias training. "It's not easy to make them go away."
Numbers show surge in Baker Act exams of kids in Tampa Bay area
Tampa Bay Times
The University of South Florida's de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute receives statewide Baker Act data. A report compiled for the Tampa Bay Times includes totals, by county, of initiated Baker Acts in Pinellas, Pasco, Hillsborough and Hernando.
Versace Accused Of Using 'Secret Code' When Black Customers Enter The Store, Former Employee Claims
The Inquisitr News
Ojmarrh Mitchell, a criminology professor at the University of South Florida and a member of the Department of Justice's science advisory board, says that aggressively profiling black customers is not the best way to prevent theft - or "shrinkage," as it's called in the retail industry.
The Long-Term Costs of Fining Juvenile Offenders
True Viral News
Piquero and Wesley Jennings, a professor of criminology at the University of South Florida, analyzed the cases of more than a thousand adolescent offenders in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
Cycle of crisis
Sun Sentinel
A 2016 University of South Florida study of seriously mentally ill adults with complex problems, such as drug addiction or homelessness, found no evidence of "personalized assertive follow-up" after a Baker Act to ensure patients weren't jailed or hospitalized again.
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