Laura Shannonhouse, associate professor in the Department of Counseling and Psychological Services (CPS), and CPS students Hannah Cowart, Brittany Jones, Afroze Shaikh and Jordan Westcott co-authored a guest blog post for the Administration for Community Living (ACL) on training volunteers to support at-risk older adults.
Their blog post highlights their work with the Belonging and Empathy, With Intentional Targeted Helping (BE WITH) project, a federally-funded effort to reduce social isolation, loneliness and elevated suicide risk in racially diverse older adults, the demographic hardest hit by COVID-19.
“With ACL’s investment in this program, we are using our novel intervention to determine how to best support at-risk older adults,” they wrote. “With time, we will have the opportunity to enhance our program so that it can be replicated throughout ACL’s aging and disability network, equipping big-hearted volunteers to BE WITH older adults, both during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.”
To read the full blog post visit the ACL post BE WITH: Training Volunteers to Support At-Risk Older Adults »