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With Collective Traumas Becoming More Common, One Leader Studies Their Impacts on Black Mental Health Practitioners

In 2018, Chanté Meadows stood on a TEDx stage and addressed a problem that’s central to her career: why isn’t mental health treated as being equally important as physical health? In this instance, she was speaking specifically about how this pattern affects the Black community that she’s part of. Meadows outlined stigmas she often heard associated with mental healthcare. Friends and neighbors would say, “I’m going to just go to Jesus and pray about it.”

Lemuel Watson

Lemuel Watson, EdD, Graduate School of Leadership and Change Professor of Inclusive Leadership and Change, recently participated in California Institute Integral Studies’ “Creative Futures Author Series.” Watson focused on the…

Shana Hormann Co-Publishes Article

Shana Hormann ‘07 (GSLC, PhD) recently co-published the article entitled “Could an Organization Be Suffering from PTSD?” in the Organization Development Review. Hormann specializes in addressing organizational trauma, building organizational…

Fayth Parks Featured on Podcast

Fayth Parks, PhD, Graduate School of Leadership and Change (GSLC) Professor of Leadership and Psychology, was a recent guest on The Health Promotion Practice (HPP) Journal HPP Podcast entitled “Exploring…

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Opioids Kill 100,000 a Year. For This Methadone Advocate, “Each and Every One of Those Deaths Was Preventable.”

“For somebody with substance use disorder in the U.S., there is only one story,” says Kathy Eggert. “That we believe people are not capable of self-agency and decision-making in a healthy way.” Eggert doesn’t believe that story, though, and she’s spent her career working against this narrative to provide care to people who use opioids through methadone maintenance treatment in ways that respect their humanity.

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Antioch University Announces Transfer Agreement with Union Institute and University

Antioch University and the Union Institute and University (UIU) have mutually agreed on a plan to assist Union students in the completion of their degrees. Known as teach-out plans, which are approved by the Higher Learning Commission, the three specific UIU programs involved in the Antioch agreement are the MBA, the Clinical Mental Health & Counseling degree, and the PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies.