Patrick Carter, M.D., Receives MIP Scholars Award for Intervention on Violence and Alcohol Use Prevention

Congratulations to Patrick Carter, M.D., Assistant Professor within the U-M Department of Emergency Medicine who is the 2017 recipient of the Michigan Mental Health Integration Partnership (MIP) Scholars Award. The MIP Scholars Award supports U-M faculty implementing and evaluating mental health services that promote integrated care and seek to improve access to evidence-based practices for lower income and Medicaid eligible populations with behavioral health care needs in the state of Michigan. The $50,000 award provided by the University of Michigan Comprehensive Depression Center Eisenberg fund is now in the process of being matched 1:1 with Michigan Medicaid funds. Dr. Carter, along with co-investigators Maureen Walton, M.P.H., Ph.D., and Rebeca Cunningham, M.D. will implement their project, 'safERteens: Violence Prevention for Urban Youth Seeking Emergency Care" at Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Michigan starting in fall 2017. The project aims to implement and evaluate the evidence-based intervention SafERteens to prevent violence and alcohol use in at-risk youth. Learn more about the SafERteens intervention here, or on the website www.saferteens.org. About Dr. Patrick Carter [caption id="attachment_2529" align="alignright" width="156"]Click here for more information on the Michigan Mental Health Integration Partnership (MIP).