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PORTLAND, Maine

UNE School of Social Work receives grant to fund the Community Access to Child Health in Maine Project

The School of Social Work at UNE has been awarded a three-year, $996,260 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources Administration (HRSA). The Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training for Professionals and Paraprofessionals grant will fund the Community Access to Child Health in Maine (CATCH-ME) Project.

The purpose of this project is to increase the number of clinical social workers, and provide them with the attitudes, skills and knowledge necessary to excel in the field. Grant funds will provide Master’s of Social Work students with $10,000 stipends to train in the field of child, adolescent and family risk prevention, intervention and treatment.

Health professionals, parents and community members will collaborate to develop the project’s educational and curricular design. Shelley Cohen Konrad, Ph.D., LCSW, FNAP, will serve as primary investigator with Kerry Dunn, J.D., Ph.D., School of Social Work, and Leslie Ochs, Pharm.D., Ph.D., College of Pharmacy as co-directors. 

Contributing to the grant team are Danielle Wozniak, Ph.D., David Prichard, Ph.D., Ellen Rondina, M.S.W., Wanda Anderson, M.S.W., and Kelli Fox, M.S.W., from the School of Social Work, and Nicole O’Brien, M.A., from the School of Community and Population Health.

About the University of New England

The University of New England is Maine’s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of flexible, accredited online degrees. In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. The state’s top provider of health professionals, we are home to Maine’s only medical college, Maine’s only dental college, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care degree programs, as well as nationally recognized programs for marine science degrees, natural and social sciences degrees, arts and humanities degrees, and business degrees.