Mission Statement

The Program's broad mission is to increase the number of rigorously educated psychiatric nurses from under-resourced groups to:

• Conduct research about psychiatric mental health and/or substance use issues with under-resourced populations across the life span;
• Assume leadership roles in the initiation of scientific investigations about phenomena that occur among under-resourced populations;
• Expand psychiatric mental health and substance use literature about under-resourced populations across the life span, and
• Function as members of interdisciplinary research and treatment teams with the intent of improving the mental health status of under-resourced populations.