BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — Hundreds gathered at the South Western Kentucky University Campus for the opening of the new College of Health and Human Services Community Health Sciences Complex.

What You Need To Know

  • Western Kentucky University President Timothy Caboni says the new complex will help advance research within the healthcare field

  • According to President Caboni, the complex will also offer interventions for people such as social workers

  • The complex is located on Nashville Road

  • The complex is now open to the public and the expansion will include 16 full-time new jobs

WKU president Timothy Caboni said the new complex will help advance research within the health care field.

Caboni said, “As we position WKU into an R2 institution, this complex will prove essential in supporting Ph.D. students and increasing research productivity.”

The new complex will have a child welfare education and research center, as well as an applied science in health and aging program, institute for rural health, CPR training, and more.

Austin Griffiths, an associate professor for WKU, said, “We’ve also got the family trauma treatment clinic, and that provides free services for family and children that need it.”

According to Caboni, the complex will also offer interventions for people such as social workers.

Caboni said, “This is a place where, as we are searching interventions for those service providers, we can actually bring them here and work directly with them. It benefits them, it benefits their clients, and also helps with research we’re doing with the university.”

According to Griffiths, with this research, they are hoping other communities can use the model if they can gather sufficient data at the complex.

Griffiths said, “We’re looking to create a model than can be adopted in other places that’s accessible, efficient, and cost effective, really.”

The complex is now open to the public and the expansion will include 16 full-time new jobs.

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