RIT behavioral health researchers are providing remote mental health care and addiction therapy to rural communities in New York and New Hampshire and training for therapists to deploy the digital treatments at their clinics.
Gabrielle Plucknette-DeVito Caroline Easton, professor of biomedical sciences, opened a behavioral health clinic on campus last fall. She sees the clinic as a community resource.
RIT’s behavioral health program is expanding in new directions with a clinic on campus and federal funding to deliver addiction treatment in rural communities in upstate New York and New Hampshire.
These partnerships and services create momentum for the Priority Behavioral Health & Clinical Psychology Internship led by Caroline Easton ’90 (biotechnology), professor of biomedical sciences.
The program was funded in 2018 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration to fill a shortage of mental health professionals, especially with addiction expertise, in the Rochester area.