The Center for Youth Advocacy and Well-Being (CYAW) at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center is celebrating its 10-year anniversary of working in collaboration with community partners to provide services to young people with mental health and trauma-related needs who are at risk of entering the justice or child welfare systems. In recognition of… Read More
The Center for Youth Advocacy and Well-Being (CYAW) at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center “should be a national model of how we actually promote health,” a renowned mental health expert visiting the university said Friday. Sarah Vinson, MD, professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Morehouse School of Medicine… Read More
The Frayser Community Urban Garden recently won the City of Memphis’ first Community Beautification Pitch Competition, a competition for individuals to pitch to the Memphis City Council on projects focusing on improving neighborhoods. The Frayser Community Urban Garden was established in a collaboration between UT Health Science Center’s College of Medicine and its Board of… Read More
A University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) research team is poised to make a real-world impact on vulnerable cancer patients, thanks to new support from the State of Tennessee. Led by David Schwartz, MD, chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology in the College of Medicine, and founding director of the UTHSC Center for Health… Read More
The Center for Youth Advocacy and Well-Being at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center will host a Trauma Summit, Tuesday, May 9, from 9 a.m.-noon at Christ Missionary Baptist Church, 494 South Parkway East. The summit is free and open to the public. This first post-pandemic public gathering for the center is part of… Read More
The Memphis and Shelby County Juvenile Justice Board held its first in-person meeting in more than two years on Tuesday, June 7, at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Schreier Auditorium in the Student-Alumni Center on the Memphis campus. Altha Stewart, MD, senior associate dean for Community Health Engagement in the UTHSC College of Medicine and… Read More
The Center for Health in Justice Involved Youth at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center has changed its name to the Center for Youth Advocacy and Well-Being. Launched in 2015 in the UTHSC College of Medicine, the center aims to raise awareness for better behavioral health services in the community for young people and their families,… Read More
Ernest J. Trice, a volunteer urban gardener, stood at the edge of several plowed rows in a field in Frayser Wednesday afternoon explaining the finer points of sowing seeds to those who gathered for the fall planting kick-off of the Frayser Community Garden, a new outreach effort of the College of Medicine at the University… Read More
