Year 4: 2020-2021 Goals

  • Expanding the behavioral health care workforce.
    • Internship stipends.
    • Group Interviews.
  • Providing inter-professional training and integration of care among behavioral health and primary care providers.
    • 4th Annual Kickoff Event: “The Science of Sleep with Implications for Wellness and Disease” (presented by Dr. Charles Atkins) – approximately 110 attendees
  • Student organized Diversity Institute: “Detoxifying Gender Roles: Liberation from the Traditional Binary” (Keynote Speaker: Justice Roe Williams; additional speakers included Dr. Christopher S. Reigeluth and Dr. Kate Evarts Rice) – approximately 170 attendees
  • Supported, facilitated, and attended multiple trainings on telehealth, ethics, and the counselor response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Support for students and faculty to attend local, regional, and national conferences (in person or via Zoom, according to COVID-19 protocols).
  • Increasing the supervisory workforce.
    • Professional trainings in telehealth counseling services, substance use and opioid use disorders, and integrated behavioral health.
  • Providing parent/caregiver supportive training.
  • Supporting interns working in prison settings to increase quality behavioral health services.
  • Implementing comprehensive social-emotional learning program in New Hampshire schools.
    • The Devereux Students Strengths Assessment (DESSA) was offered in 5 schools, aiding 1628 students, despite the barriers presented by the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Educating program interns on using an integrative system of care approach in their professions.