Daniels Fund Awards to Advance Innovative Education Programs
Contact:
Gigi Reynolds, 303-541-1219
Sarah Ellis, 303-724-1527
Danielle Zieg, 303-556-2523
April 11, 2007 — The University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center
(UCDHSC) has received two Daniels Fund grants totaling $200,000 to create the Center
on Reinventing Public Education and to introduce a new Addiction Research and
Treatment Services program.
The Center on Reinventing Public Education-Denver, in the UCDHSC Graduate School
of Public Affairs, will collaborate with the Center on Reinventing Public Education at the
University of Washington’s Evans School of Public Affairs to constitute a world-class
think tank focused on expanding applied research to benefit K-12 students and their
schools. With the goal of becoming a national leader in policy analysis, issues of student
achievement, school choice, teacher quality, finance and school funding are among the
breadth of topics to be studied at the center.
“We have a firm commitment to pursue research that expands the understanding of issues
that impact the education of children,” says UCDHSC Chancellor M. Roy Wilson, MD,
MS.
The UCDHSC School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry, Addiction Research and
Treatment Services [ARTS], will launch a new program designed to help people with
challenges related to alcoholism and substance abuse achieve stability and sobriety.
The Educational/Vocational/Training Program will enable participants in residential
substance abuse treatment programs to pursue a graduation equivalency diploma (GED),
participate in job readiness workshops, obtain gainful employment and explore a career
in Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counseling, while under supervised care.
“By increasing employability and self-sufficiency, our clients will be much closer to
achieving stable, productive futures,” says Tom Brewster, ARTS executive director.
“ARTS has provided treatment to severely drug- and alcohol-dependent patients for more
than 30 years, focusing on the most severe disorders with the goal of reducing mortality
and morbidity.”
Additional funds awarded to programs on the Colorado Springs and Boulder campuses
bring the total grant awarded to CU by the Daniels Fund to nearly $800,000.
The Daniels Fund operates the Daniels Fund Scholarship Program and the Daniels Fund
Grants Program in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. The Fund was
established in 1997 by Bill Daniels, a pioneer in cable television known for his kindness
and generosity to people in need.
The University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center is one of three
universities in the University of Colorado System. Located in Denver, on the Auraria
Campus and the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colo., UCDHSC is Colorado’s
premier research university offering more than 100 degrees and programs in 12 schools
and colleges and serving more than 28,000 students in Metro Denver and online. For
more information, visit the Web site at www.uchsc.edu or the UCDHSC Newsroom at
www.uchsc.edu/news.
