Maguire Meservey College of Health and Human Services Fund

Under the leadership of Dean Sami Ansari, MMCHHS is developing a student success center to provide relatable and reliable mentorship and advice. It will focus on meeting students where they are, providing proactive advising and coaching; expanded clinical training and internship placements; coordinated faculty and staff professional development; and co-curricular programming to foster students’ sense of belonging.

The student success center offers intentional support to a particularly diverse student body, helping to build students’ emerging identities as college students. It will purposefully and systematically address the development of “the whole student,” taking into account each student’s unique academic journey, especially the 40 percent Latinx students and 35 percent first-generation college students within MMCHHS.

The MEET THE MOMENT^® campaign includes support for paid internships and clinicals that will enable more students to take advantage of vital opportunities that align with their ambitions—without jeopardizing their financial stability.

While many of our students are exposed to opportunities in behavioral health, our recent partnership with the Mass General Brigham Workforce Development Fund will build greater awareness around experiential learning placements in behavioral health and provide greater access for students who struggle to participate in unpaid clinical training, fieldwork or internships, addressing existing gaps in services and resulting in career opportunities in the field after graduation.

The Maguire Meservey College of Health and Human Services (MMCHHS) is committed to providing interprofessional education (IPE) and collaborative practice opportunities to positively influence patient care, patient outcomes and healthcare professionals’ work experiences. By preparing students to work collaboratively across disciplines, we achieve more successful outcomes by reducing error in healthcare.

Through the MEET THE MOMENT^® campaign and the establishment of the Center for Interprofessional Collaborative Education, students from different backgrounds and with different areas of expertise will collaborate and allow them to:

• Adopt interprofessional values and ethics as the foundation of practice,
• Understand a variety of healthcare team members’ roles and responsibilities,
• Demonstrate effective interprofessional communication skills, and
• Develop abilities to work effectively as members of the healthcare team.

Providing support for such interprofessional education will position us to maintain a rigorous, collaborative learning environment where high-performing students develop their skills, raise the university’s academic profile and ensure our students achieve their full potential.