School Updates
The Center for Research on Innovations, Services and Equity in Mental Health (RISE-MH) is making important strides to improve mental health services across the nation for some of the most underserved communities. Multiple new grant awards were received from the National Institutes of Health, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and other funders. These projects include a comprehensive review of the recovery literature in mental health, initiatives to improve the care of individuals with schizophrenia for whom medication is not helping, and to investigate the impact of caregiver engagement on the effectiveness of community-based maltreatment prevention programs for at-risk youths. Further, new ground is being broken by two RISE-MH students. Christian Porter is raising awareness about the emergence of dissociative identity disorder on Tik Tok, and Ana T. Flores received an F31 award through NIMH for her project “Social Cognition in Latinx’s with Schizophrenia,” which assesses the psychometric properties of field-standard measures of social cognition in schizophrenia in a Latinx sample. This year also saw the launch of the Lived Experience Research Academy to support diverse graduate students with severe mental illness in beginning mental health research careers in order to increase the number of scholars with lived experience who can lead advances in mental health services research for
the nation.