News and Updates

MHLP News Items

These are previous Department of Mental Health Law and Policy news and spotlight items.


11/13/2009
The Ultimate "Toolbox" for Clinicians, Researchers, and Trainees

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

10/09/2009
Three New Tenure-Earning Faculty Positions Available within MHLP

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)

08/20/2009
MHLP faculty and staff secure an average of $10.7 million in annual external funding from 2005-2009

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

08/07/2009
MHLP Welcomes Dr. Beom Lee

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

04/11/2008
Dr. Marion Becker receives the 2008 Women’s Leadership Award.

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

03/03/2008
Preserving the Reliability of Children’s Testimony

01/29/2008
2008 Baker Act Training Now Available

11/16/2007
Florida Supreme Court Report: Transforming Florida's Mental Health System

07/17/2007
FMHI to House Florida’s First Criminal Justice, Mental Health and Substance Abuse Technical Assistance Center

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

03/22/2007
MHLP faculty awarded the USF Distinguished Service Award

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

09/14/2006
Forensic Registration is Now Open!

08/31/2006
Solutions for Homelessness

07/17/2006
George Thomas, Focus on Consumer Recovery

07/11/2006
2006 Baker Act Training Series