State researchers to get $2.7M mental health grant
Posted: September 3, 2010 at 10:55 a.m.
Updated: September 3, 2010 at 12:46 p.m.
LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas researchers will receive a five-year, $2.78 million grant to improve mental health care in community health centers throughout Arkansas.
Officials announced Friday that the National Institute of Mental Health grant was awarded to John Fortney and Geoffrey Curran of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Community Health Centers of Arkansas Inc. executive officer Sip Mouden.
The funding will be used to develop a partnership among researchers in the UAMS Department of Psychiatry and Community Health Centers of Arkansas, which delivers primary care and other health care services to more than 141,000 Arkansans living in medically underserved areas across the state.
Officials say the partnership will promote evidence-based mental health practices to screen and diagnose patients with bipolar disorders and alcohol abuse and link them to psychiatric care.
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