Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling Professions
Mutual Mentoring Grant for the SHP Free Clinic Network The Fall 2025 Clinic Advisory Group Meeting, held on December 4, 2025 and guided by Frank Giannelli and Dr. Andrew Lynch, marked the third and final session sponsored by the Mutual Mentoring Grant.Across one year, the grant supported three interdisciplinary meetings that brought together faculty from [...]
$2.8 Million Grant Will Help Train Professionals Supporting Young Adults with Disabilities Tameika Minor Tameika Minor and Aubrey Daniels, assistant professors in the Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling Professions, have received a $2.84 million, five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Rehabilitation Services Administration to launch the FuturePath: Transition [...]
SHP Secures $875,000 Grant to Strengthen the Behavioral Health Workforce Nora Barrett, vice chair and associate professor in the Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling Professions, has been awarded a five-year, $875,000 undergraduate education in rehabilitation services grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The funding will support tuition scholarships for students pursuing [...]
SHP Honors Scholarship Recipients at Celebration Rutgers School of Health Professions (SHP) honored 41 exceptional students at its annual scholarship celebration, held Nov. 6 at the Rutgers Club in Piscataway. The event brought together students, faculty, and program leaders to recognize academic excellence and achievement across SHP’s diverse programs. The awards included SHP [...]
Sabrina Lugo Finds Her Calling in Counseling — and Song Sabrina Lugo thinks she has always been a bit of a therapist.As an undergraduate student at Pace University, Lugo started her own business doing nails and noticed that clients she had never met before were opening up to her in very personal ways during [...]
Mental Health Clinic Opens, Serving Students and the Community The Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation & Counseling Professions launched a new clinic in January, providing free counseling services to all Rutgers students and New Jersey residents while giving graduate students in the department opportunities to train in their field.Clinic director Dr. Aubrey Daniels, assistant professor, [...]