Two programs under one faculty investment. Both draw on the same body of work — DMU's integration of psychology, philosophy, and theology into a coherent account of the human person — and both reach audiences the university does not currently serve.
A continuing education curriculum for licensed mental health professionals who already hold advanced degrees. These clinicians have their clinical training but have never been taught to integrate the Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person into their practice.
The market is large and unserved: thousands of Catholic clinicians practicing without a coherent framework for relating their faith to their clinical work.
DMU's understanding of the person — the integration of psychology, philosophy, and theology — gives it a distinctive vantage on what leadership actually is and what forms it.
This is not another MBA with a chapel. It is formation grounded in a complete anthropology.
Why they are one request and not two. The largest single line below is faculty engagement, and it is shared. The same subject-matter experts who can teach a clinician to work from the CCMMP are the ones who can ground a leadership curriculum in it. Funding the programs separately would buy that faculty time twice.
| Component | Share of request | Cost | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Faculty engagement and subject matter experts | $300,000 | 21% | |
| Curriculum design and development (CCMMP CE program) | $280,000 | 19% | |
| Curriculum design and development (Leadership program) | $250,000 | 17% | |
| Video production uses the studio | $150,000 | 10% | |
| LMS integration and platform build-out | $120,000 | 8% | |
| Pilot testing with partner institutions | $100,000 | 7% | |
| Marketing and launch | $100,000 | 7% | |
| Accreditation and CE credit approval processes | $80,000 | 6% | |
| Contingency | $70,000 | 5% | |
| Total | $1,450,000 | 100% |
Ordered by size rather than by sequence. Bar length is proportional to dollars; the largest line item fills the track. Contingency is shown in gray because it is a reserve against the other lines rather than a spend category of its own.
The video production line is costed on the assumption that filming happens in the curriculum development studio — the separate $650,000 request. Two programs' worth of filmed instruction at $150,000 is an internal-facility number, not an agency number.
If the studio is not funded, that line either buys substantially less finished content at outside production rates, or it needs to grow. This is the strongest argument for funding the studio first, or for funding both together: the studio is the cheaper of the two requests and it lowers the delivered cost of the more expensive one.
Read Year 1 as F+1 to F+365. Consistent with the launch milestone schedule, program years here count from the funding event rather than from a calendar year. Two items inside this budget have external clocks that do not move with funding: accreditation and CE credit approval run on the approving bodies' review cycles, and pilot testing with partner institutions runs on academic terms. Both should be started as early in the funded period as the curriculum drafts allow.
Divine Mercy University · Presence+ · funding request 2 of 2 · companion to the launch milestone schedule · prepared August 2026