PhD Alum Flores Awarded Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation Grant

PhD Alum Flores Awarded Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation Grant

PhD alum Dennis Flores was recently awarded a Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation's Hillman Emergent Innovation Program grant for his proposal entitled "Parents ASSIST, a program to help gay, bisexual, and queer (GBQ) teenage boys avoid HIV and other sexually transmitted infections by equipping their parents with communications skills to have affirming and supportive discussions with them." Parents ASSIST will offer skill-building techniques for parents and help them overcome perceived impediments to communication with their sons, and may be the first project to present GBQ topics and communication modeling skills for parents through a dedicated website. 

The Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation recently announced $1.6 million in new grants to nursing-driven innovation for vulnerable populations. To accelerate the development and scale of forward thinking nursing-driven models of care, the Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation has added two new programs to its portfolio of Innovation grants and will award more than $1.6 million in funding to seven projects to improve the health of vulnerable populations. The new programs—the Hillman Emergent Innovation Program and the Hillman Innovation Dissemination Program—will bookend the Foundation’s flagship Hillman Innovations in Care Program to create a pipeline for innovation from pilots and prototypes to broad-based implementation. The 2017 awards will serve diverse populations and focus on opioid addiction, maternal mental health, advance care planning, traumatic injury rehabilitation, intimate partner violence, adolescent sexual health, and aging in place. To learn more, please visit www.rahf.org/blog/view/Hillman-Foundation-Announces-2017-Innovation-Grants or bit.ly/RAHFgrants2017.

 

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