MURFREESBORO — A
healthy community needs food for thought, and Dollar General is helping MTSU
provide it.
The Dollar General Literacy Foundation presented an $8,000
grant to Drs. Catherine Crooks and Stuart Bernstein May 7 at the Nashville
Public Library. The money will enable Crooks and Bernstein to bolster their
ongoing efforts toward improving health literacy among Murfreesboro children.
“We are very grateful to Dollar General for their support of
Drs. Crooks and Bernstein’s health literacy efforts and what this will mean to
our partnership with Murfreesboro City Schools,” said Dr. Harold Whiteside,
dean of the MTSU College of Behavioral and Health Sciences.
The funding will help fund the creation of the Collaborative
Learning and Leadership Institute at Mitchell-Neilson Elementary School. There,
Crooks and Bernstein, in collaboration with other faculty, students and
community partners, will address educational and environmental issues that
affect student and family success.
Crooks and Bernstein, both psychology faculty, strive to
improve reading proficiency of children and adults struggling with basic
literacy and education. In addition, their work aims to help keep down
community health care costs associated with lack of knowledge or understanding
of medical information and instructions.
For more information, contact the MTSU College of Behavioral
and Health Sciences at 615-898-2900 or Dollar General at 877-944-3477 or pr@dg.com.
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