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Lee Health partners with FGCU to educate mental health counselors
Among the biggest gaps in the region’s healthcare network is accessibility to mental health providers, according to a recent consultant’s report. This came as no surprise to Florida Gulf Coast University’s Department of Counseling, which recently established the Community Counseling Center, an on-campus facility for the public.  The intent is to help ease that shortage…
Social worker helps people see dignity through changing circumstances
Most people seek to avoid conflict in their professional lives. Social worker Christine Douangsouri (’16, MSW) seeks it out.   Every step of her career has seen Douangsouri comfortably in the middle of conflict – between refugees and angry U.S. citizens, between cancer patients and financial obstacles, and now, at the senior living community, Vi at Bentley Village, between senior residents and…
Edison National Bank creates scholarship fund
While Florida Gulf Coast University’s students are certainly pleased with their new nearly 50,000-square-foot Recreation & Wellness Center, they likely aren’t any happier than Robbie Roepstorff, the former chair of the FGCU Board of Trustees and president of Edison National Bank. She’s also known as the head cheerleader for the fitness center, which she stressed…
Nationally ranked women cope with season of victories cut short
There may come a day when the members of the 2019-20 FGCU women’s basketball team are able to look back on their achievements without feeling a pit in their stomachs for what was lost. But they may never stop wondering “what if?” After rolling to the program’s 10th ASUN Conference regular-season title in a dozen…
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