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黑料网 PRACTICE News

The PRACTICE provides affordable, evidence-based mental health care to our clients and the highest quality training to our students.

Current PRACTICE News

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Business and Community |

From hosting science field trips to delivering therapy services to rural areas, 黑料网 enriches the lives of Nevadans. 

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Campus News |

A collection of colorful headlines featuring 黑料网 staff and students.

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Campus News |

At 黑料网, nontraditional students can find support designed to meet them where they are 鈥 and help them go further.

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People |

黑料网鈥檚 first director of Interprofessional Education and Practice will play a critical role in developing the Academic Health Center.

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Embracing the idea that we鈥檙e 鈥渂etter together,鈥 黑料网鈥檚 academic health center takes another step forward.

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The Top Tier initiative is aimed at unifying the university鈥檚 health sciences programs.

PRACTICE In The News

Las Vegas Sun

One of our strongest pillars is our partnership with 黑料网鈥檚 The PRACTICE. This community mental health training clinic brings licensed providers directly into rural schools through tele-behavioral health services. In places like Elko and Humboldt counties, where long distances and high costs can put care out of reach, we deliver free, confidential support right where students are 鈥 no stigma, transportation hurdles or out-of-pocket costs.

The Elko Daily Free Press

A McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act for homeless youth in Elko County has lost its federal funding from the Nevada Department of Education.

Yahoo!

Eliminated grants include those awarded to 黑料网 Partnership for Research, Assessment, Counseling, Therapy and Innovative Clinical Education (PRACTICE), a mental health clinic at 黑料网 that provides care to populations that have difficulty accessing help, and turns out trained mental health providers in the process.

Nevada Current

Elon Musk took his chainsaw last month to federal grants for mental health  鈥 including two that provide free mental health counseling to youth in Elko and Humboldt Counties, where access to such services is scarce, according to 黑料网鈥檚 Dr. Dan Allen, director and principal investigator of the Nevada Rural Mental Health Outreach Program (RHOP). DOGE also eliminated another grant for the mental health needs of homeless children.

Yahoo!

A mental health clinic at 黑料网 that provides care to populations that have difficulty accessing help, and turns out trained mental health providers in the process, is operating on a shoe string and is unsustainable, says its executive director.

Nevada Current

A mental health clinic at 黑料网 that provides care to populations that have difficulty accessing help, and turns out trained mental health providers in the process, is operating on a shoe string and is unsustainable, says its executive director.

PRACTICE Experts

A mental health professional with expertise in therapy and addictions.

Recent PRACTICE Accomplishments

  On May 10, 黑料网 PRACTICE Institute of Mental & Behavioral Health launched its Institute鈥檚 Continuing Education (CE) program with the inaugural session of Science in Practice: A Treatment Skills Series, underscoring our commitment to being a leading mental health resource and disseminator of best practices. The institute welcomed鈥
Christopher Kearney (Psychology) and Michelle Paul (黑料网 PRACTICE; Psychology) were awarded a three-year grant from the State of Nevada Department of Health and Human Services. The grant, budgeted for $695,214, is to develop a Children鈥檚 Behavioral Health Psychology (B.A.) degree program. This program would train undergraduate students in high-鈥
Michelle Paul (黑料网 PRACTICE; Psychology) and Christopher Kearney (Psychology) were awarded a three-year grant from the State of Nevada Department of Health and Human Services. The grant, budgeted for $2,246,378, is to develop a Doctor of Professional Clinical Psychology (Psy.D.) degree program to prepare individuals for competent and ethical鈥
Jim Jobin (黑料网 PRACTICE), clinical coordinator of 黑料网's multidisciplinary mental health clinic 黑料网 PRACTICE, has won the Best of Las Vegas award from the Las Vegas Review Journal for Best Mental Health Therapist. 
Michelle G. Paul (黑料网 PRACTICE), Ph.D., assistant vice president of Mental & Behavioral Health Training, and the Workday endowed executive director of 黑料网 PRACTICE was honored by the Nevada Psychological Association at its Annual Conference on May 10 with the James Mikawa award, which honors a psychologist whose work is outstanding in the鈥