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USF College of Behavioral & Community Sciences August 10th - August 17th, 2018
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Hi Everyone,
I am pleased to introduce Dr. Tracy Payne who is one of our newest faculty members in Florida Center for Inclusive Communities. Tracy Payne, Ph.D. has been working in education for more than 20 years. She worked to bring a free K-12 NASA-STEM program to Tennessee State University, and was named its Family Café Coordinator. In this role, she helped grow this program from the ground to having served more than 10,000 students, teachers, parents and guardians in just over a few years. She won awards for her work with parents in helping them become the best advocates for their own children's rights to a free and equitable education. She went on to graduate from Vanderbilt University in 2011 with training in Education Research and a focus on Early Childhood Education. As a Fellow of the Institute of Education Sciences, she worked at the Peabody Research Institute and, in 2009, she received a grant from the Department of Health and Human Services to conduct a two-year experimental study in Head Start Classrooms. Tracy has taught pre-service teachers in teacher education programs, conducted professional development for in-service teachers, and continues to work with parents and families in educating their children.
Join me in welcoming her to FCIC.
Lise
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Dr. Cary Hopkins Eyles "Authentic Self-Care for Addiction Professionals" Webinar
Dr. Cary Hopkins Eyles (MA, CAP, RYT), Assistant Director of the UTC Coordinating Center for North Americans Universities, conducted a Webinar on Authentic Self-Care for Addiction Professionals this past wednesday. The webinar identifies and addresses the importance of self-care as an addiction professional through awareness and techniques. Professionals can earn Continue Education Hours (CEs) for this webinar for a small fee, but this webinar is free to all professionals not requiring CEs. For more information about this webinar and how to view it, please go to
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Dr. Rigg recently published a paper with Maia Szalavitz, one of the premier American authors writing on addiction. She has received countless awards in the addiction field, written numerous best-selling books, and is considered a preeminent thought leader on drug use. Ms. Szalavitz has interviewed Dr. Rigg several times for his comments on opioid-related issues that have appeared in Time Magazine, New York Times, Washington Post, and VICE. However, they recently decided to write a commentary together on opioids and crime that was published in Substance Use & Misuse. This commentary has been wildly popular, sparking lively dialogue in the national media. The article has also been downloaded 326 times in the short time its been published and already been cited 3 times in the academic literature. Dr. Rigg was invited to present his paper at the American Society of Criminology Conference in Atlanta this November and on Crimeversation, a podcast discussing criminal justice issues. The article can be viewed here.
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Dr. Riaan VanZyl Panelist at Mentoring Program Summit
Dr. Riaan VanZyl was a panelist at the Bigs in Blue Summit organized by Big Brothers Big Sisters on July 19th. Bigs in Blue is a new mentoring program where law enforcement personnel spend one-to-one time mentoring a child at a neighborhood school. The goal is to break down barriers and build trust between communities and law enforcement and help students achieve academic success.
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Mitchell Roberts Wins Research Award 
Mitchell Roberts, a student in the PhD in Aging Studies program, was recently awarded the Florida High Tech Corridor Excellence in Graduate Student Research Award. The winning research project is based at The Villages, a large retirement community with over 100,000 residents. It is titled "Using Technology to Improve Service Delivery and Health Outcomes for Older Adults" and It includes three sub-projects-a study using the Brain Network Activation program to create a big data brain mapping repository using EEG signals, a project using HomeSense, a wireless sensor system, to collect data on activities of daily living, sleep/wake patterns and lifestyle of The Villages residents, and finally the Hospitalist Evaluation sub-project, where data are collected on discharged patients to track post-discharge health outcomes.
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2018 Fall Forensic Series
Randy Otto, Ph.D., ABPP Chris Slobogin, J.D., LL.M. University of South Florida Tampa, Florida
The Department of Mental Health Law and Policy at the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida announces its 2018 Continuing Education Forensic Training Series Learn more here
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Dr. Taylor Turosz featured in Tampa Bay Times
Taylor Turosz, 27, a Behavioral Healthcare major in the Department of Mental Health Law & Policy at USF, was featured in an article in the Tampa Bay Times on July 20, 2018, entitled "When Suicide Threats Come Calling: 'I Try to Make a Connection'," for working the evening shift at the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay. She started as a volunteer who works the hotline taking calls from sexual assault victims, people who are dealing with substance abuse issues, to people on the brink of suicide. Turosz has been working at the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay for a year and can answer up to 30 calls per night. She connects people with the much-needed resources to help them overcome their most difficult times. Read more here.
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Bay News 9
"...Researchers with the University of South Florida plan to begin a study at the Pasco County Jail in August that researchers believe is among the first of its kind..." [More]
Tampa Bay Times
"...A year and a half ago, two professors from the University of South Florida - Bryanna Fox, an assistant professor of criminology, and Edelyn Verona, a professor of clinical psychology - were spitballing research ideas when they landed on one that seemed to check all their boxes..." [More]
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