b'WILLIAM JAMES COLLEGE 29Department of Education, Higher EducationThe two-year, $410,000 grant will offer eight Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) to provideacademic scholarships and research awards each year emergency financial assistance to graduate to graduate students who are underrepresented in the students (July 2022-2023). field of behavioral health. The grant will also provide The Center for Behavioral Health, Equity, andfunds to help launch an Institute for Professional Leadership in Schools (BHELS) received a new two- Development and conduct a state-wide Research year contract from the Massachusetts DepartmentProject on best practices for retention-focused of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE)behavioral health workforce development programs. providing $130,000 per year in FY23 and FY24 toThanks to a renewable grant from the continue the Special Education AdministrativeMassachusetts Department of Mental Healths Leadership Institute for Experienced Directors of(DMH) Jail/Arrest Diversion Program, 蜜桃tv is the Special Education.first school to offer training and a certificate program The Massachusetts Department of Veteranin Crisis Response and Behavioral Health (CRBH).Services (DVS) will provide up to $275,000 in FY23In FY22, the grant allocated up to $135,202 in funding funding for the Train Vets to Treat Vets (TVTV)for infrastructure and startup costs, and in FY23, program, the service, outreach, and researchwill provide over $400,000 for education, research, component of the Military and Veterans Psychologytraining, and technical assistance activities.(MVP) concentration at 蜜桃tv.The College was allocated $500,000 in Massachusetts 2021 American Rescue Plan Act New Grant-Funded(ARPA) bill (Chapter 102 of the Acts of 2021), from Collaborations federal COVID-19 dollars and state surplus funds to With grant funding from a new philanthropicdevelop a behavioral health workforce development venture, Accelerate The Future, CWD will engage incenter focused on retaining and developing a three workforce-retention-related activities as part culturally diverse, experienced, behavioral health of a consortium of higher education institutions. workforce that cares for underserved communities. for Victim Assistance (NOVA) and the Americanher husbands Red Cross, where she served as president of thedeath into the Capital Area Crisis Response Team (CACRT).narrative of While in D.C., after a long marriage, she washer life. Not widowed in 2016. Death was no stranger to me. only were the I had much professional experience in the geriatrictraining and and disaster response work helping individuals andexperience helpful, communities cope with death, loss, natural disasters,but the communities and terrorism. But whenas of course it willdeathof friends formed during comes home, its a different matter.those years provided the foundation for the necessary, Jackie shared that her training at William Jamesintegrative life work. She is enormously grateful.College, together with her post-graduate trainingJackie writes, More recently, I am fortunate and experience as an IFS (Internal Family Systems)to have reconnected and fallen in love with Fred therapist, was enormously valuable in integratingYoung, an old friend from high school (my high'