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WSU Extension part of grant to boost mental health resources in rural, underserved areas

January 30, 2023

WSU Extension is part of a new program created to increase access to mental health treatment and recovery for students in rural and underserved school districts.

Teacher sits on a floor reading a book to four small students, also sitting on a floor.

Researcher’s 5-year dedication helps children, community recover from traumatic mudslide

March 5, 2019

Natalie Turner helped children, teachers and families of a mudslide-ravaged community understand and recover from trauma.

Turner, arms crossed, standing outside glass-walled building

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Today, it's an encounter with WSU forestry students learning to fight wildfire. Tomorrow, it might be a photo session with cheesemakers at the WSU Creamery or a field-day trip through experimental meadows at the university’s new Perennial Grass Breeding and Ecology Farm. For communicator and WSU alumnus Seth Truscott, the many facets of CAHNRS ensure that no two days are alike. A newspaper journalist and editor in a prior incarnation, he has brought the community and identity of the college to light through reports, blog posts, press releases, images, and other media since 2015.