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- MTSU Center awarded $9.1 Million+ to help Tennesseans Struggling with Opioid Addiction
- News Channel 5+ Open Line – How Can we Fight the Ongoing Opioid Crisis?
June 2023
March 2023
- Heart of Gold – Center for Health and Human Services director turns project expertise into life-changing results
January 2023
December 2022
July 2022
June 2022
April 2022
January 2022
September 2021
August 2021
May 2021
March 2021
- MTSU on WGNS: Business ethics and finance, virtual farm project, celebrating women
- MTSU CHHS supports healthy sleep, cautions to be aware of “loud killer”
- MTSU creates STEMsational Ag: The Virtual Farm – Agriculture, STEM and health educational curriculum for educators, parents, and K-14 youth during the COVID-19 pandemic – an 11-state initiative
- MTSU CHHS Receives Funding to Alleviate Opioid Epidemic in Rural Wilson County
September 2020
- MTSU CHHS obtains federal funding to alleviate Wilson County opioid epidemic.
- Wilson County teams up with MTSU to fight opioid epidemic.
August 2020
February 2020
November 2019
- MTSU CHHS Blue Raiders Drink Up: Healthy Choices for Healthy Students featured on WGNS “Action Line” on Nov. 18 with host Bart Walker
- MTSU CHHS Cooking Classes Make Food Taste Good, as part of the Blue Raiders Drink Up: Healthy Choices for Healthy Students grant
July 2019
- MTSU CHHS receives funding to implement Blue Raiders Drink Up: Healthy Choices for Healthy Students focusing on obesity and diabetes prevention, for MTSU students. Learn more here.
June 2019
- MTSU CHHS Sleep Research Consortium featured on the June edition of “Out of the Blue” with Andrew Oppman. Take a look here!
May 2019
- CHHS- MTSU faculty and staff appeared on WGNS Radio recently to share information about a new campus mental health training project, new sleep quality and positive aging consortiums and a special upcoming alumni event. View the article and podcast here.
April 2019
- MTSU CHHS Sleep Research Consortium
- Performing research and bringing awareness of the importance of sleep to human existance, health and well-being.
- Read this April 15, 2019 MT News article about MTSU’s Center for Health & Human Services forms Partnership to Conduct Sleep Research.
- Find out more about the exciting new research being conducted by the MTSU CHHS Sleep Research Consortium.
October 2018
- CHHS receives funding to implement Mental Health First Aid on campus with funding from Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (SAMSHA)
- A federal grant will help MTSU personnel recognize possible mental health issues in students and provide information that could help them. MTSU’s Center for Health and Human Services will implement the new Mental Health First Aid program over the next three years with the Department of Social Work, Student Health Services, the Center for Counseling and Psychological Resources, the Charlie and Hazel Daniels Veterans and Military Family Center and other on- and off-campus partners. Funding for the project, a grant worth more than $365,000, is being provided by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
- Read the article.
August 2018
- SPARK 2 Read – Physical Activity, Health Education and Literacy in 16 Rural Tennessee Schools
- Underserved children in sixteen rural schools in an eight-county area will get the “spark” they need to ignite healthier lifestyles thanks to MTSU’s Center for Health and Human Services.
- Read the article
July 2018
- Center for Health and Human Services Center Director plans expansion with partnerships, grant funding
- MTSU health center director plans expansion with partnerships, grant funding – MTSU News.
- Read the article.
May 2018
- MTSU’s Center for Health & Human Services Receives Funding to Address Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) – “All Children Excelling through A Comprehensive Network of Trained Providers”
Spring 2018
- MTSU Center for Human Services Featured in Inaugural MTSU Research Magazine
- MTSU Center for Human Services is featured in the Inaugural MTSU Research Magazine where several of the CHHS projects, programs,and research initiatives are highlighted.
- Read the article.
December 2017
- MTSU Researchers Help Tennessee Children Get Moving through Pilot Program
- MTSU is launching a project that will enhance children’s activities beyond that offered in traditional physical education courses.
- Read the article.
May 2017
- MTSU Center Lands $30K March of Dimes Grant for Dental Training Program
- MTSU’s Center for Health and Human Services has received $30,000 from the March of Dimes Tennessee Chapter Community Grants Program to provide training to area dental providers on best practices for smoking cessation.
- Read the article.