News & Updates

05/10/2013
Bay Area Wellness Gospel Explosion will benefit Wellness at Any Age Initiative

05/10/2013
MHLP Research Associate Professor Receives Faculty International Program Development Grant

05/10/2013
MHLP Faculty Receive Community Scholars Fellowship Program Grants

05/02/2013
MHLP Celebrates First Behavioral Healthcare Graduates

04/16/2013
Project Latino S.T.Y.L.E Honored at USF Diversity Summit

04/03/2013
Alcohol Awareness Month

03/07/2013
Registration for Summer and Fall Classes Begins March 25th

02/07/2013
Randy Otto Recipient of the 2012 Leadership in the Education of Forensic Psychologists Award and Appointed to the Criminal Justice Mental Health Standards Task Force of the American Bar Association

02/07/2013
Jay Singh Recipient of the 2012 Clinical Trainer of the Year Award

01/31/2013
Laurie Cunnignham and Child Welfare Training Consortium Awarded the DCF training contract for Florida’s Central Region

01/18/2013
Jay Singh, PhD Was Cited in The Washington Post

12/07/2012
Dr. Amy Cohn Received a Study Grant to Identify Patterns of Smoking that Lead to Cessation in Heavy Drinking Smokers

11/16/2012
Dr. Roger Boothroyd received the Mental Health Section Award

09/21/2012
Celia Lescano, Ph.D. publication was selected for the AACAP Norbert and Charlotte Rieger Award for Scientific Achievement

09/07/2012
Marina Bornovalova, PhD, Awarded $3.1 Million Dollar Five Year Grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse

08/31/2012
MHLP Research Assistant Professor Receives Additional Funding for National Center on Homelessness among Veterans Projects

08/31/2012
Dr. Kathy Moore received a three year $96,000 award to evaluate the Pinellas County Adult Drug Court

07/30/2012
Child Welfare Training Consortium Awarded $1.3 Million Contract

07/11/2012
HIV Center Received Grant for the AETC Telehealth Training Centers

04/26/2012
Family Dependency Treatment Court Success Saves Money and Families

04/10/2012
Tim Boaz, PhD, Nominated for Outstanding Faculty Award

02/20/2012
MHLP Post-doctoral Fellow Receives AP-LS Funding

02/20/2012
MHLP Assistant Professor Edits Book on Child Custody Evaluations

10/07/2011
MHLP Faculty Receive Continued Funding For Homeless Projects

09/27/2011
HIV Education and Research Center Received $206,300 Grant

09/21/2011
No Proof That Smartphone Apps Help Drinkers Reduce Alcohol Use

09/19/2011
MHLP Faculty Receive Awards

07/14/2011
Dr. Randy Otto Quoted in the New York Times

06/23/2011
Dr. Robert Constantine is One of the Top 25 Grant Awardees

05/02/2011
DUI Breath Alcohol Testing Mobile (Batmobile)

01/21/2011
Dr. Norman Poythress selected to receive exclusive honor from the American Psychology-Law Society

11/23/2010
John Petrila co-authors Information Sharing in Criminal Justice-Mental Health Collaborations: Working with HIPAA and Other Privacy Laws

11/09/2010
Elida Porro Receives 2010 TRAIN Award from USF

05/04/2010
Investigators in Center for HIV Education and Research receive Major HRSA Grant to Evaluate Treatment of Hepatitis C

07/29/2010
Dr. Michael Knox and Team Receive $16 Million Grant Award

07/28/2010
Drs. Batsche, Boothroyd, and Stiles Awarded USF Global Academic Partners Grant

06/23/2010
Article by John Petrila and Dr. Norman Poythress Reviewed in "Science"

05/05/2010
MHLP Faculty Member Authors MacArthur Foundation Training Monograph for Judges and Attorneys

04/26/2010
Dr. Eva Kimonis Awarded the USF Neuroscience Collaborative Young Investigator Grant Award

03/31/2010
Dr. Bob Constantine Appointed by Governor Crist to the Florida Correctional Medical Authority

03/15/2010
Dr. Eva Kimonis Awarded USF Internal Grant to Study Subtypes of Callous-Unemotional Traits in Maltreated Youth

01/29/2010
Dr. Richard Van Dorn and Dr. John Robst Receive Internal Grant Awards from the BCS College

01/28/2010
Susan Henke Selected for the Quiet Quality Award

11/13/2009
Dr. Randy Otto Co-Authors New Book entitled: "Handbook of Violence Risk Assessment

10/29/2009
MHLP Welcomes 2 new Post-Doctoral Fellows - Dr. Amanda Fanniff and Dr. Jason Hall

10/01/2009
NIDA Research Core Center funded at $1.46 million - the USF Center on Co-Occurring Disorders, Justice, and Multidisciplinary Research (CJM Center)

09/30/2009
MHLP/USF partners with the Department of Veterans Affairs to Implement the National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans

08/24/2009
Dr. Randy Borum awarded a Faculty Fellowship to the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE)

08/18/2009
SPARC Co-occurring Disorders Treatment Manual and Workbook has received 25,000 hits

04/27/2009
Airia Papadopoulos Selected to Attend 2009 NSF Summer Research Institute

11/10/2008
SAMHSA Awards More Than $17.4 Million to Help Expand Adult Drug Courts

11/03/2008
New Book Published by Dr. Kathryn Kuehnle

10/28/2008
College of Behavioral and Community Sciences

10/27/2008
Dr. Randy Otto is the 2008 recipient of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology's Award

09/02/2008
Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY)

08/18/2008
FMHI Receives $2.8 Million to Continue Support of Florida/Caribbean AIDS Education and Training Center

06/20/2008
Faculty Research Cited by Supreme Court in Recent Decision Involving Criminal Defendants

06/19/2008
Dr. Annette Christy Selected to Participate in the 2008 NIH Summer Institute on Health Services Research

04/11/2008
Dr. Paul Stiles was presented with the USF School of Aging Studies Sue Saxon Award for Outstanding Teaching

04/07/2008
Drug Treatment for Offenders as an Alternative to Incarceration

07/16/2007
Dr. Knox, Faculty Liaison to the Board of Trustees Health Sciences and Research Workgroup

07/12/2007
Roger Peters, Ph.D. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration’s (SAMHSA) Webcast

04/02/2007
2007 NIH Summer Institute scholarship awarded to Dr. Scott Young

03/27/2007
Testimony on Second Chance Act of 2007

01/08/2007
Mentally Ill Inmates: FMHI Provides Expertise

11/06/2006
Evaluation of a Healthy Marriage Demonstration Program

10/03/2006
MHLP Selected to Evaluate Federally Funded Dependency Drug Court Grant

09/26/2006
MHLP Selected to Evaluate Federally Funded Treatment for Homeless Grant

09/20/2006
Drug May Delay Nursing Home Placement for those with Dementia

08/31/2006
Solutions for Homelessness