The latest Federal Update highlights amajor federal grant to Indiana University Bloomington to provide more low-income Indiana students with access to college prep and other support programs and an IU public health researcher who is helping lead IU’s and Indiana’s efforts to prevent deaths from opioid overdoses.
IU Bloomington receives $500,000 national grant for precollege support programs
Reducing barriers for Indiana University Bloomington students starts before they come to campus. Through a $500,000 grant from the American Talent Initiative, more high school 21st Century Scholars and Pell Grant recipients across the state will receive college prep and enrollment support as well as dedicated support once on campus. As one of just 16 universities to receive the grant nationwide, IU will use the funding to create a new enrollment program, IUBound, that will strategically align the existing student recruitment and student success efforts to support low-income Indiana students in a cohort model from eighth grade through their senior year of college with partner Indiana high schools.
“This initiative is vital for increasing access and opportunity for low-income students, particularly Pell Grant recipients,” IU President Pamela Whitten said. “By supporting students from eighth grade through graduation, we aim to foster success and equity in higher education. Together with our partners, we are committed to ensuring that all students, regardless of financial background, can achieve their college dreams.”
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IU researcher recognized at White House event on saving lives from opioid overdose
Cris Henderson is a research associate for Prevention Insights and a doctoral student at the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington in the Department of Applied Health Science. They are also project director of the Citizen Opioid Responders (COR) Program, an IU online naloxone training program that seeks to reduce deaths from opioid overdoses by recruiting, training and linking citizen responders to these events so they can administer medications used to reverse opioid overdoses, such as naloxone, also known as Narcan.
At the White House Challenge to Save Lives from Overdose event, Henderson joined leaders from across business, education, entertainment, government, hospitality and other industries who were recognized for their commitment to increase training on—and access to—life-saving opioid overdose reversal medications.
Henderson’s visit to the White House was the latest in a recent series of events that have brought national attention to IU’s leadership in addressing the opioid crisis.
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