'Michigan Model' national pilot program to help curb acts of mass violence

<p>$15 million state grant will support Center for Targeted Violence Prevention</p><p><br></p><p>Michigan State University’s Department of Psychiatry is launching a pilot program – with a $15 million grant from the state of Michigan – to help curb acts of violence and spare families from unthinkable trauma before it’s too late.<br> <br> The <a href="https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2022/center-for-targeted-violence-prevention">Center for Targeted Violence Prevention</a> is a collaborative program between the MSU Department of Psychiatry — a shared department in the Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine and Human Medicine at MSU — and the <a href="https://www.policinginstitute.org/">National Policing Institute, or NPI</a>. The five-year pilot program will establish a research-to-practice hub to provide guidance, training and consultation in the regions, and will also assign intensive support teams to provide case management and mentoring services to high-risk/high-need adolescents and their caregivers. </p><p><a href="https://psychiatry.msu.edu/alyse-folino-ley-do">Alyse Ley</a>, associate chair of education and research in the Department of Psychiatry, and <a href="https://www.policinginstitute.org/staff/frank-straub/">Frank Straub</a>, director of the Center for Targeted Violence Prevention at NPI are co-directors of the program. They discuss the mission of the program on this episode of MSU Today.</p><p><em>Listen to "MSU Today with Russ White" on the </em><a href="http://go.msu.edu/listen"><em>radio</em></a><em> and through </em><a href="http://go.msu.edu/Spotify"><em>Spotify</em></a><em>, </em><a href="http://go.msu.edu/ApplePodcasts"><em>Apple Podcasts</em></a><em>, and </em><a href="http://go.msu.edu/podcasts"><em>wherever</em></a><em> you get your shows.</em></p>