{"id":10262,"date":"2022-03-07T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T07:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/?p=10262"},"modified":"2022-04-18T11:25:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T16:25:10","slug":"apa-grant-supports-suicide-awareness-and-prevention-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/2022\/03\/07\/apa-grant-supports-suicide-awareness-and-prevention-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"APA grant supports suicide awareness and prevention efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A small grant from the American Psychological Association will support suicide awareness and prevention efforts by a Missouri Western State University faculty member and her students. Dr. Nuchelle Chance, assistant professor of psychology, received the grant through the APA\u2019s Commission on Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention and Training in Psychology Task Force.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The grant covers both research and outreach efforts with a special emphasis on racial and ethnic minority disparities associated with mental health and suicide rates.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two students have been selected as research assistants, Latonya Mitchell and Marian Montiel. They will receive scholarships while working toward developing a presentation or written manuscript on mental health and suicide based on their own research question.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the outreach side, Dr. Chance and her students will work with Can You See Me, Inc., a non-profit that works to raise awareness about mental health issues co-founded by student Demetrius Chance. One of the outreach programs will be a podcast hosted by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MWSUCM\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Creative Minds<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a student-founded group. The five-part podcast will stream live with guests, activities and giveaways. The first podcast originated from the Blum Student Union at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 1, with subsequent episodes airing March 8, March 15, March 22 and April 5.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Follow along with the outreach and research efforts via the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TakeaChanceSSRL\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Take a Chance Social Science Research Lab on Facebook<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small grant from the American Psychological Association will support suicide awareness and prevention efforts by a Missouri Western State University faculty member and her students. Dr. Nuchelle Chance, assistant professor of psychology, received the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":10246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10263,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10262\/revisions\/10263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}