Melissa Newsome, a research associate with the College of Medicine’s Center for Behavioral Health Integration, was a member of the winning interdisciplinary team at Tuesday’s Collaborative Collision at Florida State University competition.
Six teams of faculty and staff proposed rural service projects aimed at improving the lives of the underserved in North Florida’s 23 designated rural counties.
The Access to Resources for People with Disabilities team was awarded $100,000 by the FSU Office of Research Development for their winning proposal, geared to assisting those with autism, Down Syndrome, intellectual disabilities and other cognitive, or neurodiverse, challenges.
The winning team produced a video describing their objectives in support of its project summary.