UW–Madison education researchers have been awarded a 4-year, $10.4 million federal contract to launch and operate a national center to expand and improve the country’s school-based mental health workforce of school psychologists, social workers, and other practitioners.The winning proposal from faculty members Stephen Kilgus, Katie Eklund, and Andy Garbacz, co-directors of the School Mental Health Collaborative (SMHC) in the university’s nationally ranked Department of Educational Psychology, establishes a Mental Health Evaluation, Training, Research, and Innovation Center for Schools (METRICS). The proposal was issued in response to a U.S. Department of Education (DoE) call for applications in May to create a “Mental Health Personnel Technical Assistance Center” (MHP TA Center)...
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