/news-archive/tag/kristina-johnson/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Wed, 14 Dec 2022 13:55:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2022/12/14/love-of-writing/ Wed, 14 Dec 2022 13:55:43 +0000 /news/?p=84060 ... Graduating Student Finds New Career, Love of Writing at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock]]> 鈥淲hen I was a senior, I thought about what I was good at. I really liked English and creative writing. I鈥檝e enjoyed writing short stories in my free time for many years.鈥� After graduating high school, Johnson joined 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock in 2014 for the close location to home and focus on education. 鈥淚 took my ACT here and really liked the campus,鈥� she said. 鈥淚t was just a really pretty campus that fit my dreams of college. I wanted to live at home, and it was the perfect setting for me to focus on my education.鈥� She would graduate in 2018 with a bachelor鈥檚 degree in English with an emphasis in creative writing and then join the graduate program. Johnson is now looking forward to her December graduation with a Master of Arts in Professional and Technical Writing degree. She is thankful to professors Heidi Harris, Karen Kuralt, Londie Martin, and Joe Williams for helping her. 鈥淭he feeling of finishing my professional portfolio and my professors coming back and saying, 鈥楾his looks good,鈥� is the most relief I鈥檝e ever had,鈥� Johnson said. 鈥淚t took a lot of effort and hard work to get here. I鈥檓 very happy and proud of what I accomplished.鈥� She cites her greatest accomplishment at graduate school as writing a grant that provides $10,000 in funding for two pilot suicide prevention programs in Arkansas jails. 鈥淚 took the grant writing class with Dr. Barb L鈥橢plattenier,鈥� she said. 鈥淚t was one of the hardest classes I took in all my education, but it was worth it. I wrote my first grant, and it was funded. It was definitely my biggest accomplishment of graduate school, maybe ever, and it gave me a new appreciation for writing and how it can be used to help people.鈥� Unlike most new college graduates, Johnson won鈥檛 have to worry about finding a job as she started her career as a technical writer at MidSOUTH, 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 social work academy, last year. She is responsible for developing training materials and coordinating continuing education trainings. 鈥淚鈥檝e done it sort of backwards,鈥� Johnson said. 鈥淚鈥檝e already gotten a job so this degree will help push my career forward and give me bigger opportunities in the future.鈥漖]> /news-archive/2022/08/23/suicide-prevention-grant/ Tue, 23 Aug 2022 12:37:08 +0000 /news/?p=82011 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Student Writes Grant to Help Fund Suicide Prevention Programs in Arkansas Jails]]> Kristina Johnson, a graduate student in professional and technical writing, wrote the grant on behalf of the (AFSP-AR). The nonprofit received a $10,000 grant from the Roy and Christine Sturgis Trust to supplement funding for a pilot suicide prevention education program in two Arkansas county jails. Bank of America is the sole trustee of the Roy and Christine Sturgis Trust. The nonprofit鈥檚 Project 2025 Corrections Program will offer and evaluate suicide prevention education programs for Pulaski County Regional Detention Center and Garland County Detention Center. Over nine months, they will implement the 鈥淭alk Saves Lives: Corrections鈥� suicide prevention curriculum within the jails. Afterwards, they will gather feedback on what was successful about the program, which will help AFSP-AR gain insight on growing the program in the future. Altogether, they plan to reach 350-500 people in Pulaski and Garland counties through the program. The Project 2025 Corrections Program is also funded by a 糖心Vlog传媒MS Translational Research Institute Community Based Participatory Research Award. Johnson wrote the grant as part of her fall 2021 grant writing class with Dr. Barb L’Eplattenier, a professor of rhetoric and writing at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock. 鈥淭his is my favorite class that I have taken in the graduate program,鈥� Johnson said. 鈥淚t offered real-world experience that is absolutely paramount to grant writing. I learned a lot about myself as a professional, and I have built a great relationship with the nonprofit I worked with.鈥� Johnson, who also works as a technical writer at MidSOUTH, got involved with AFSP-AR after hearing Susie Reece, a volunteer with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, speak about suicide prevention as part of the Arkansas Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect. Johnson worked with Reece and Jacqueline Sharp, area director of the Arkansas chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, to write the grant. 鈥淚 had never written a grant before this class, so I was very proud of the work that all of us did to write and receive the grant,鈥� Johnson said. 鈥淚 was so proud to use my writing in a meaningful way to help a meaningful cause. The goal is to save lives, and there is nothing quite like knowing that I was able to help with that. This experience has reinforced how important it is for me to use my writing skills in a way that directly helps people.鈥漖]>