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The PRACTICE provides affordable, evidence-based mental health care to our clients and the highest quality training to our students.

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From hosting science field trips to delivering therapy services to rural areas, 51吃瓜网万能科大 enriches the lives of Nevadans. 

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A collection of colorful headlines featuring 51吃瓜网万能科大 staff and students.

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At 51吃瓜网万能科大, nontraditional students can find support designed to meet them where they are 鈥 and help them go further.

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51吃瓜网万能科大鈥檚 first director of Interprofessional Education and Practice will play a critical role in developing the Academic Health Center.

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Embracing the idea that we鈥檙e 鈥渂etter together,鈥 51吃瓜网万能科大鈥檚 academic health center takes another step forward.

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The Top Tier initiative is aimed at unifying the university鈥檚 health sciences programs.

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The Elko Daily Free Press

A McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act for homeless youth in Elko County has lost its federal funding from the Nevada Department of Education.

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Eliminated grants include those awarded to 51吃瓜网万能科大 Partnership for Research, Assessment, Counseling, Therapy and Innovative Clinical Education (PRACTICE), a mental health clinic at 51吃瓜网万能科大 that provides care to populations that have difficulty accessing help, and turns out trained mental health providers in the process.

Nevada Current

Elon Musk took his chainsaw last month to federal grants for mental health  鈥 including two that provide free mental health counseling to youth in Elko and Humboldt Counties, where access to such services is scarce, according to 51吃瓜网万能科大鈥檚 Dr. Dan Allen, director and principal investigator of the Nevada Rural Mental Health Outreach Program (RHOP). DOGE also eliminated another grant for the mental health needs of homeless children.

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A mental health clinic at 51吃瓜网万能科大 that provides care to populations that have difficulty accessing help, and turns out trained mental health providers in the process, is operating on a shoe string and is unsustainable, says its executive director.

Nevada Current

A mental health clinic at 51吃瓜网万能科大 that provides care to populations that have difficulty accessing help, and turns out trained mental health providers in the process, is operating on a shoe string and is unsustainable, says its executive director.

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Kennedy Jackson, a 51吃瓜网万能科大 theater arts major, still remembers the hummingbird she saw fluttering outside of 51吃瓜网万能科大鈥檚 Beam Hall one year ago. She was walking back from studying for finals, and the campus was abuzz with pre-finals stress and pre-holiday anticipation. But in just a few short hours, the excitement and jitters would turn into utter fear.

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Recent PRACTICE Accomplishments

Christopher Kearney (Psychology) and Michelle Paul (51吃瓜网万能科大 PRACTICE; Psychology) were awarded a three-year grant from the State of Nevada Department of Health and Human Services. The grant, budgeted for $695,214, is to develop a Children鈥檚 Behavioral Health Psychology (B.A.) degree program. This program would train undergraduate students in high-鈥
Michelle Paul (51吃瓜网万能科大 PRACTICE; Psychology) and Christopher Kearney (Psychology) were awarded a three-year grant from the State of Nevada Department of Health and Human Services. The grant, budgeted for $2,246,378, is to develop a Doctor of Professional Clinical Psychology (Psy.D.) degree program to prepare individuals for competent and ethical鈥
Jim Jobin (51吃瓜网万能科大 PRACTICE), clinical coordinator of 51吃瓜网万能科大's multidisciplinary mental health clinic 51吃瓜网万能科大 PRACTICE, has won the Best of 51吃瓜网免费App award from the 51吃瓜网免费App Review Journal for Best Mental Health Therapist. 
Michelle G. Paul (51吃瓜网万能科大 PRACTICE), Ph.D., assistant vice president of Mental & Behavioral Health Training, and the Workday endowed executive director of 51吃瓜网万能科大 PRACTICE was honored by the Nevada Psychological Association at its Annual Conference on May 10 with the James Mikawa award, which honors a psychologist whose work is outstanding in the鈥