{"id":56246,"date":"2020-09-11T11:08:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T16:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=56246"},"modified":"2020-09-11T11:08:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T16:08:45","slug":"%ef%bb%bfprestigious-grant-to-kelly-center-provides-additional-services-for-fhsu-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=56246","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffPrestigious grant to Kelly Center provides additional services for FHSU students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A prestigious national grant is allowing the Kelly Center at Fort Hays State University meet the mental health needs of more students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nPathway to Help, Hope and Success initiative, created by the grant committee, was awarded the Garrett\nLee Smith Campus Suicide Prevention Grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental\nHealth Services Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nuniversity is receiving $264,561 over a three-year period, and Fort Hays State\nis investing the same amount in matching funds. FHSU received its first\ninstallment of the grant in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nfunds helped the Kelly\nCenter hire a\ncase manager to provide personal counseling services, attend mental\nhealth-related trainings and create and implement programming that raises awareness\nof suicide on college campuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nKelly Center provided a record-breaking 4,084 personal counseling sessions last\nyear, in addition to services in the following areas: alcohol and drug\ncounseling services, student accessibility issues through learning disability\ntesting and accommodations, and academic counseling and peer tutoring. The\ngrant now will help the center reach students enrolled in FHSU online classes\nas well, via Zoom sessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadie\nSpurlock, grant\ncase manager,\nhosted a six-week online Zoom series during the spring called \u201cTogether, Hays\u201d\nthat focused on mental and physical health featuring healthcare workers from\nFHSU and the Hays community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spurlock\ncreated a training video for new faculty and staff in their asynchronous\nvirtual training modules. Center staff has also hosted suicide awareness\ntrainings for local companies, held presentations for Greek life and provided a\nvirtual suicide risk assessment and management training course for Kelly Center\ninterns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some\ngraduate students were trained this spring to help provide therapy for clients.\nPlans are to train other student leaders on campus, such as residence hall\nleaders, as well as faculty and staff to increase the campus community\u2019s\nability to recognize, manage and prevent suicidal tendencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gina\nSmith, director of the Kelly Center, said the grant came at a critical time,\nwith students facing issues never experienced before because of the Coronavirus\npandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some\nstudents are struggling financially. Some are anxious about the transition to\nmore online classes. And then there is the social isolation aspect of remote\nlearning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNow\nis a time when it\u2019s more important than ever to offer programs that support in\nas many ways as we can,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smith\nsaid the grant program allows the Kelly Center to address mental health needs\nin a lot of different ways. It will help develop a collaborative,\nevidence-based approach to enhance mental health services for all college\nstudents, especially for traditionally underserved populations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nproject strives to prevent mental health and substance use disorders; promote\nhelp-seeking behavior while reducing negative public attitudes; and improve the\nidentification and treatment of at-risk college students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis\nwill positively impact our students\u2019 mental health, and therefore increase our\nstudents\u2019 retention, persistence, and success during their university career\nand beyond,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joining\nSmith in co-authoring the grant were Dr. Leo Herrman, associate professor of\npsychology; Dr. Kenton Olliff, associate professor of advanced educational\nprograms; Robert Duffy, coordinator of the Drug and Alcohol Wellness Network;\nand Lynn Adams, director of Student Health. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More\ninformation about the Kelly Center can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fhsu.edu\/kellycenter\">www.fhsu.edu\/kellycenter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS A prestigious national grant is allowing the Kelly Center at Fort Hays State University meet the mental health needs of more students.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56247,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56246\/revisions\/56247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}