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Members of Oregon’s congressional delegation are pledging to build — and sustain — a school mental health workforce.

Salinas is co-sponsoring s bill to create a scholarship program for students pursuing an undergraduate or graduate-level degree to work in a behavioral health field. It would pay for tuition, and other expenses, like textbooks, which can add up.

A groundbreaking group of University of Oregon undergraduates are set to begin a brand-new training program on a brand-new campus with the goal of practicing a brand-new profession.

How sleep interventions can improve child sleep problems, with the ultimate goal of improving children's overall health and well-being, is the subject of UO psychologist Ariel Williamson's research.

The fundraising effort will also go toward the construction of a new building in Portland that will house the Ballmer Institute and Prevention Science Institute.

The gap between the number of teenagers who report conditions like anxiety, depression, and hopelessness and the number of those who receive treatment is increasing. 

A $425 million gift is allowing the University of Oregon to prototype a new way of training people to help struggling kids.

The UO’s Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health and Department of Athletics will join forces to develop programs that equip children with skills to promote well-being and address the mental health needs of student-athletes from a young age.

Oregon’s mental health clinics can’t find anyone to fill a quarter of their jobs. Six Oregon counties didn’t have a single psychologist last year.

The demand for aid radically exceeds the supply of help. Providers are experimenting with how to address the emergency.
The Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health, along with Connie and Steve Ballmer, have received the 2023 Distinguished Friend to Behavior Therapy Award for their groundbreaking work to craft and implement a national model for a bachelor’s-level specialty training program in children's behavioral health.
The inaugural undergraduate cohort at the UO’s Portland-based Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health won’t graduate for three years, but new details on how the pioneering institute will operate — and its potentially significant impact on local schools — are emerging.
New undergraduate students won’t arrive to Northeast Portland until 2024, but the former Concordia University campus will see some new life soon.
New research from incoming Executive Director Dr. Katie McLaughlin suggests that generous social benefits for lower-income families boost their children’s brain development.
The Ballmer Institute has been awarded a $50,000 Health Care Workforce funding grant from the Cambia Health Foundation to support community engagement efforts.