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The California Department of Health Care Access and Information awarded a $5.25 cardinal assistance to the Master of Social Work programme astatine Fresno State to grow its capableness to nutrient qualified wellness attraction professionals.
“This award, 1 of the largest successful the state, is simply a important committedness to gathering behavioral wellness needs crossed the Central Valley,” said Dr. Marcus Crawford, the main researcher for the grant. “The Central Valley has an acute shortage of qualified wellness attraction professionals, including societal workers, and the MSW programme will present person the resources to bid an further 75 highly skilled societal workers.”
The programme produces societal workers for the university’s work region, characterized by precocious levels of concentrated poorness and importantly underserved, marginalized populations.The portion is majority-minority with much than 70 ethnicities and 105 languages spoken. The Master of Social Work programme maintains 50 tract sites passim 4 counties with a substance of urban- and rural-serving sites, providing work to divers populations with myriad analyzable needs.
“This concern not lone elevates our program’s competitiveness nationally,” said Dr. Dheeshana Jayasundara, co-principal investigator, a prof who specializes successful the country of gender-based and home violence. “This grant besides provides resources to reenforce our committedness to excellence and assemblage impact.”
Crawford specializes successful the areas of foster attraction and juvenile justness systems. Dr. Felipe Mercado, co-principal investigator, works with disenfranchised populations and communities to physique civically engaged schools rooted successful intersectional societal justice. Dr. Randy Nedegaard, co-principal investigator, specializes successful subject intelligence wellness and subject taste competence, spiritual trauma and AI successful acquisition and behavioral health.
“This backing volition guarantee that our graduates are well-equipped to supply culturally responsive care,” said Dr. Pa Nhia Xiong, co-principal investigator, who works successful the areas of Hmong intelligence health, home unit successful the Hmong assemblage and acquisition and leadership.
(Story by Gil Harootunian, Executive Director, University Initiatives, Office of the Provost astatine Fresno State)
