Through a 5-year, $625,000 grant from the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the Mental Health and Recovery Board of Portage County will partner with Kent State University’s Center for Public Policy and Health in the College of Public Health to improve and support mental health in Portage County. The primary goals of the project are to provide mental health awareness trainings to teachers, administrators and staff in Portage County schools, create resource guides and referral me...

Through a 5-year, $625,000 grant from the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the Mental Health and Recovery Board of Portage County will partner with Kent State University’s Center for Public Policy and Health in the College of Public Health to improve and support mental health in Portage County. The primary goals of the project are to provide mental health awareness trainings to teachers, administrators and staff in Portage County schools, create resource guides and referral me...

The Kent State University Museum and the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State announce the launch of the “Digital Green Book” created in support of the exhibition “TEXTURES: the history and art of Black hair.” This is the first collaboration between the Kent State University Museum and the Wick Poetry Center, extending the poetry center’s series of innovative interactions known as the Listening Wall and Emerge poems that inspire creative connections between individuals and content. The subjects of the “Digital Green Book” are barbers and stylists living and working in Northeast Ohio&n...

Congratulations to James C. Hannon, Ph.D., Dean of the College of Education, Health and Human Services, who was elected to serve a 2-year term as Chair of the State University Education Deans (SUED) which began on July 1st. SUED is an association of education deans from Ohio’s thirteen public Colleges of Education. Working in collaboration with the Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE), the Ohio Department of Education (ODE), and other educational entities, SUED’s mission is to ensure that the highest quality candidates are prepared to meet the diverse needs of schools, agencies, ...