CIHR Funding
A community-university research partnership led by School of Social Work faculty member Dr. Kathy de Jong has been awarded $1.6 million to help improve the lives of young people dealing with mental health, substance use and housing challenges in Newfoundland and Labrador.
The research project will be done in partnership with , a non-profit organization that works with at-risk youth in our province.
The award is part of a larger investment of more than $30 million over four years aimed at strengthening and expanding research within the across Canada.
The initiative鈥檚 funders are the Government of Canada, through the and Indigenous Services Canada, and its partners, the Graham Boeckh Foundation and Bell-Graham Boeckh Foundation partnership.
A cross-disciplinary endeavour, the research team at 糖心视频 University also includes Drs. Josh Rash and Nick Harris, both associate professors in the Department of Psychology; Dr. Maisam Najafizada, associate professor of health policy, Faculty of Medicine; and Dr. Tsering Dolkar Watermeyer, assistant professor, School of Social Work.
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