Debra Murray, director of the Master of Science in Mental Health Counseling program, discussed Viterbo’s recent $741,201 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration Opioid Workforce Expansion Program with Gregg Wavrunek, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin’s Western Wisconsin Regional Representative, Sept. 19.

The grant is being used to support Viterbo’s Vital Opioid Instruction through Community-based Experiential (VOICE) initiative, which is designed to increase the number and preparedness of graduate level mental health professionals providing opioid and other substance abuse prevention, treatment, and recovery services to people of all ages.