Charles Griffin

Director of the Kansas Rural Family Helpline and Research assistant professor, School of Family Studies and Human Services

Departments & Academic Units:

• Family Studies and Human Services

Contact Info:

A202 Edwards Hall
(785) 532-2025

Areas of Specialization:

• Rural mental health and wellness
• Dispute resolution
• Mediation
• Community mental health

Short Biography

I grew up on a diversified family farm in Rice County near Lyons, Kansas. I have a background in rural mental health, chemical dependency counseling and biofeedback training, as well as stress management and crisis intervention. Before beginning my work with farm crisis assistance in 1985, I maintained a private practice as a marriage and family therapist and consulted with a rural hospital in developing a rural wellness program.

In addition to my role at the Kansas Rural Family Helpline I serve as the director of a training grant that provides dispute resolution and mediation skills across Kansas as well as providing consultation in integration of community health care services and many other areas of human service delivery. I continue to appreciate living in the country near Manhattan and dabbling with small-scale agriculture.