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51ԹϺ PRACTICE News

The PRACTICE provides affordable, evidence-based mental health care to our clients and the highest quality training to our students.

Current PRACTICE News

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Business and Community |

From hosting science field trips to delivering therapy services to rural areas, 51ԹϺ enriches the lives of Nevadans. 

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Campus News |

A collection of colorful headlines featuring 51ԹϺ staff and students.

Kinesiology student Zachary Coleman studies outside.
Campus News |

At 51ԹϺ, nontraditional students can find support designed to meet them where they are — and help them go further.

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People |

51ԹϺ’s first director of Interprofessional Education and Practice will play a critical role in developing the Academic Health Center.

A sign in front of a building reads "51ԹϺ Shadow Lane Campus"
Campus News |

Embracing the idea that we’re “better together,” 51ԹϺ’s academic health center takes another step forward.

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Campus News |

The Top Tier initiative is aimed at unifying the university’s health sciences programs.

PRACTICE In The News

Las Vegas Sun

One of our strongest pillars is our partnership with 51ԹϺ’s The PRACTICE. This community mental health training clinic brings licensed providers directly into rural schools through tele-behavioral health services. In places like Elko and Humboldt counties, where long distances and high costs can put care out of reach, we deliver free, confidential support right where students are — no stigma, transportation hurdles or out-of-pocket costs.

The Elko Daily Free Press

A McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act for homeless youth in Elko County has lost its federal funding from the Nevada Department of Education.

Yahoo!

Eliminated grants include those awarded to 51ԹϺ Partnership for Research, Assessment, Counseling, Therapy and Innovative Clinical Education (PRACTICE), a mental health clinic at 51ԹϺ that provides care to populations that have difficulty accessing help, and turns out trained mental health providers in the process.

Nevada Current

Elon Musk took his chainsaw last month to federal grants for mental health  – including two that provide free mental health counseling to youth in Elko and Humboldt Counties, where access to such services is scarce, according to 51ԹϺ’s Dr. Dan Allen, director and principal investigator of the Nevada Rural Mental Health Outreach Program (RHOP). DOGE also eliminated another grant for the mental health needs of homeless children.

Yahoo!

A mental health clinic at 51ԹϺ that provides care to populations that have difficulty accessing help, and turns out trained mental health providers in the process, is operating on a shoe string and is unsustainable, says its executive director.

Nevada Current

A mental health clinic at 51ԹϺ that provides care to populations that have difficulty accessing help, and turns out trained mental health providers in the process, is operating on a shoe string and is unsustainable, says its executive director.

PRACTICE Experts

A mental health professional with expertise in therapy and addictions.

Recent PRACTICE Accomplishments

  On May 10, 51ԹϺ PRACTICE Institute of Mental & Behavioral Health launched its Institute’s Continuing Education (CE) program with the inaugural session of Science in Practice: A Treatment Skills Series, underscoring our commitment to being a leading mental health resource and disseminator of best practices. The institute welcomed…
Christopher Kearney (Psychology) and Michelle Paul (51ԹϺ PRACTICE; Psychology) were awarded a three-year grant from the State of Nevada Department of Health and Human Services. The grant, budgeted for $695,214, is to develop a Children’s Behavioral Health Psychology (B.A.) degree program. This program would train undergraduate students in high-…
Michelle Paul (51ԹϺ PRACTICE; Psychology) and Christopher Kearney (Psychology) were awarded a three-year grant from the State of Nevada Department of Health and Human Services. The grant, budgeted for $2,246,378, is to develop a Doctor of Professional Clinical Psychology (Psy.D.) degree program to prepare individuals for competent and ethical…
Jim Jobin (51ԹϺ PRACTICE), clinical coordinator of 51ԹϺ's multidisciplinary mental health clinic 51ԹϺ PRACTICE, has won the Best of Las Vegas award from the Las Vegas Review Journal for Best Mental Health Therapist. 
Michelle G. Paul (51ԹϺ PRACTICE), Ph.D., assistant vice president of Mental & Behavioral Health Training, and the Workday endowed executive director of 51ԹϺ PRACTICE was honored by the Nevada Psychological Association at its Annual Conference on May 10 with the James Mikawa award, which honors a psychologist whose work is outstanding in the…