Science and Technology

MU disaster center to boost mental health training

KBIA | By Associated Press
Published February 18, 2013 at 9:05 AM CST
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The donation to MU from the Sidney Kimmel Foundation amounts to $5.5 million.
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The University of Missouri has started a research center on disaster and terrorism in hopes of boosting training for mental health workers.

Assistant communications professor J. Brian Houston recently received a $2.4 million federal grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. He wants to study the long-term emotional turmoil faced by disaster and terror victims.

The center will employ a university social worker to train school teachers and counselors in Joplin, Kansas City, St. Louis and New Orleans in crisis intervention.

The four-year grant continues through September 2016.
 

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