Policies & Procedures
Tolan Receives APA Presidential Award of Distinction, Vision to Action Award
Patrick Tolan,
Ph.D., received a Presidential Award of Distinction from the American Psychological Association at the annual meetings of the APA in Boston this month. This award was presented to Dr. Tolan at one of several invited addresses he gave at the meetings. He was honored for merging concepts of psychology, sociology, and criminology to create an influential, multi-level developmental model of the causes of violence. His model describes the integrated and interacting roles of individual, family, peer and neighborhood and community variables in increasing risk for violence. Dr. Tolan has played a pivotal role in groundbreaking multi-site studies of violence prevention in inner city youth based on the view that interventions must focus on each and all levels to be successful.
In separate news, Dr. Tolan received the “Vision to Action” award from the Illinois Center for Violence Prevention at their 6th annual Art of Peace dinner on September 18. Dr. Tolan was honored for his “extraordinary contribution to the field of violence prevention, including innovation, national leadership and advancing scientific understanding of causes and prevention of violence in Illinois and across the globe.”
Associate Press: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gA2HzDM7PEI-vAuX4s28pNxMn4PQD92UQD4G0
LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-suicide3-2008sep03,0,6842391.story
ABC-7 News Interviews Cook on Supports for College Students with Mental Health Issues
Judith Cook, Ph.D., was featured on an ABC Channel 7 News segment on the mental health of college students and supports that lead them to seek help when they are experiencing symptoms
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/disability_issues&id=6312512
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West Receives Grant to Study Native Americans in Urban Settings Amy West
Ph.D., last week secured a grant in collaboration with the American Indian Center of Chicago. The groundbreaking study will focus on urban-residing Native Americans and will use recently refined methods of action research and collaboration with the community to be studied. Previous work at IJR and elsewhere forged some of that refinement (e.g. CHAMP, the Healthy Youth Development Group). Dr. West’s new study is a next step/generation of that approach.
Medical Center Presents Class Act Award to Rayfield
Ellen Rayfield
LCPC, MT-BC, recently received the Medical Center's Class Act Award. The award recognizes employees who are role models who continuously demonstrate exceptional competence and compassion in performing job responsibilities, and demonstrate an outstanding example of the medical center’s five values: Integrity, Innovation, Service Excellence, Safety, and Accountability. Ms. Rayfield originally worked at Illinois State Psychiatric Institute and then joined the department’s Research Unit. She now works on 8 East with adults, providing service to CATU, the Rehabilitation Unit, CRP, Oncology, and Pediatrics. Scott Buchanan from Nursing nominated her for the award because of her professionalism, kind and therapeutic approach to patients, excellent communication with the interdisciplinary treatment teams, exemplary clinical standards, and ongoing supervision/mentoring of Music Therapy students.
The first Midwest Schizophrenia Conference
will be held Friday Oct. 24 at the new UIC Forum on East Campus. Peter Weiden, M.D., and John Davis, M.D., will present. Doctors John Csernansky,
Sheldon Preskorn and Ron Diamond, nationally renowned experts in the field, will also present. The event will be from 10 a.m., to 4 p.m., at the UIC Forum,
725 W. Roosevelt Rd, on the southeast corner of Roosevelt Road and Halsted Street, Chicago, IL 60608. For more information and to register, Click Here 
Policies & Procedures
Over the next few months we will be providing and implementing Department Electronic, Network, Computing Policies and Procedures. All Department Policies and Procedures will be reviewed and endorsed by the Information Technology Steering Committee (ITSC) prior to presenting to the Department.
Because of our relationship to UIC and College of Medicine there are some Policies we automatically inherit. Two such policies:
- Information Security Policy - The University of Illinois
- University Guidelines on the Sale, Donation, or Transfer of Computer Hard Drives and Other Magnetic Media
These policies can be found on our web site using the following link: https://intranet.psych.uic.edu/is/ you will be required to "log-in" to access these policies.
We will make both of these policies (along with others forth coming) a part of new employee orientation, but to those of us already in the system we are asking that each of you please take the time to read these policies.
If you have any questions concerning any policy or procedure please contact Lloyd Keith, thank you.
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