Success StoryGrant and Contract Funding received for FCS Extension
Grant and Contract Funding received for FCS Extension
Author: Kerri Ashurst
Planning Unit: Family and Consumer Sciences
Major Program: Family Development General
Outcome: Long-Term Outcome
During the reporting period, Dr. Ashurst directly received 3 grants/contracts totaling $376,683. One grant for $140,000 (year 4 amount; 5 year grant) was for a Children, Youth and Families at Risk (CYFAR) grant to provide life skills programming for at-risk youth. Grant sites are in Fayette and Hardin Counties. A second grant for $185,651 was received for the Military Teen Adventure Camp program to hold camps for service members and their teenage children to attend together to reconnect and focus on the parent-child relationship. A federal contract through USDA for $51,032 is for Ashurst to serve as a federal coach for CYFAR Professional Development and Technical Assistance to provide oversight and assistance to CYFAR grants in other states and territories.
Also during this reporting period, Ashurst was involved as personnel on 2 other active grants totaling over $7,493,000. One was in collaboration with the University of TN, and one was in collaboration with the UK College of Social Work. This totaled 14% of her time.
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