The Initiative includes the Dickinson Fellowship Program, 研究项目, and community outreach and advocacy.
狄金森奖学金 provides training and funding for approximately eight undergraduate and graduate students each year. 这种多学科的, competitive fellowship supports students who will one day work with persons and their families impacted by severe and persistent mental health conditions, in mental health or other clinical settings such as primary care or acute care.
Seminars are held every other week throughout the academic year. Autumn Quarter is devoted to training about the individual experience of mental illness, while Winter Quarter addresses the family experience, and Spring Quarter focuses on community and government issues. Seminars include book analyses, video presentations and discussions, research planning and presentation, planning and discussion of community outreach, planning and discussion of activities with SPU's student-led chapter of 活跃的思想, 以及演讲嘉宾.
To encourage cross-disciplinary understanding, students from various health perspectives discuss theoretical models and treatment for severe and persistent mental illness from their specific disciplines.
Students also attend community meetings of 活跃的思想, participate in the annual NAMI walk, observe Mental 健康 Court in 西雅图, and have the opportunity to participate in ongoing research conducted by faculty scholars.
The 健康生活计划 also sponsors research in the area of severe mental illness, 耻辱, 社区卫生, 和信仰. 阅读以下几个例子 发表的研究 conducted by faculty scholars and previous fellows.
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If you would like to donate funds to support the 健康生活计划, please visit SPFC的捐款页面 and select “健康生活计划” as your designation.