HRSA Grant
The Master of Science in Addiction Studies program at ³Ô¹ÏÍ·Ìõ has been awarded an Opioid Workforce Expansion Program grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration.
The grant is designed to improve training in evidence-based prevention, assessment, and treatment for opioid use disorders and other substance use disorders for providers in Connecticut.
Specifically, this grant allows us to: 1) strengthen our relationships with community partners and build new interdisciplinary partnerships in support of substance use prevention and treatment; 2) increase the number of students that we support through stipends at training and internship sites each year; 3) facilitate partnerships with other departments at ³Ô¹ÏÍ·Ìõ with professional and undergraduate programs whose graduates will benefit from addiction internship placements and/or collaborative training events on substance use; 4) improve the behavioral workforce for our high risk and high need communities through facilitation of sponsored monthly interdisciplinary dialogs and annual trainings open to both the ³Ô¹ÏÍ·Ìõ community and other community partners; and 5) position ³Ô¹ÏÍ·Ìõ as an emerging leader in Connecticut in providing hands on classroom and training for individuals interested in substance use treatment. The grant provides each student who successfully applies a stipend of $10,000 over the 6 months of the internship.
The writer of this grant was Lindsay Oberleitner, Ph.D. The principal investigator of this grant is Shane Murphy, PhD (Addiction Studies/Psychology).
