A Purdue Fort Wayne associate psychology professor received a grant of more than $300,000 to help with mental health awareness and an early intervention program.
The $369,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration to Jeannie DeClementi will help train faculty and staff, as well as provide screenings, assessments and intervention, according to a release from Purdue University Fort Wayne.
The program will be called Purdue Aware. It will serve the entire school, but focus on at-risk students, military veterans, active duty students, as well as members of gender and sexual minority groups, members of racial and ethnic minority groups, first-generation college students, and nontraditional students.
The school is collaborating with Park Center and the Bowen Center, as well as negotiating with the Veteran’s Administration to bring the Fort Wayne Vet Center into this program.
This is not the first federal grant for DeClementi. She has brought nearly a million dollars in funding for mental health programming to the Purdue Fort Wayne campus.
