Awards, conferences, and committee nominations

Upcoming nominations

• The Minority Fellowship Program Services for Transition Age Youth Training Advisory Committeeopens in new window
  The Minority Fellowship Program seeks nominations for one educator, clinical supervisor, or mental health provider position member beginning February. This individual will serve on the Services for Transition Age Youth section of the Training Advisory Committee.

• The Minority Fellowship Program Training Advisory Committeeopens in new window
  The Minority Fellowship Program seeks nominations for two doctoral member positions beginning February. These individuals will serve on the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services section of the Training Advisory Committee.

Awards

CSOGD award

• Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity Outstanding Achievement Award
  The Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity (CSOGD) annually presents one or two Outstanding Achievement Awards to recognize psychologists for significant contributions to the mission of CSOGD.

CDIP awards

• Distinguished Contributions to Advancement of Disability Issues in Psychology Award
  This award seeks to recognize an APA member who has had a significant and enduring impact on advancing the role of psychological principles to enhance the lives of and promote the inclusion of people with disabilities in society.

CONA awards

• Award for the Advancement of Psychology and Aging
  This award for outstanding achievement is presented annually to recognize psychologists and friends of psychology who have made significant contributions to the mission of CONA.

MFP awards

• Minority Fellowship Program Achievement Awards
  These awards recognize MFP alumni who have made exceptional contributions to racial and ethnic psychology in the areas of research, public service, teaching and training, or innovations in treatment.

PI awards

• Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest (Early Career and Senior Career)
  This award recognizes people who have advanced psychology as a science and/or profession by a single extraordinary achievement or a lifetime of outstanding contributions in the public interest.

Grants

• Commission on Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention and Training in Psychology (CEMRRAT)opens in new window  
  This grant promotes and improves multicultural training in psychology, increases ethnic minority faculty recruitment and retention in psychology, increases ethnic minority student recruitment, retention and graduation in psychology, and more.

• LEAP for Early Career Scholarsopens in new window This grant is established for individuals who have attained their doctorate degree in a behavioral science field (psychology, public health, medicine, anthropology) from underrepresented racial and ethnic populations who show promise in research related to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) mission but who have not yet received R01 funding and have not ascended to a leadership position in their respective disciplines or professional associations.

• Predoctoral Fellowship in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (MHSAS)
  opens in new window A federally funded program to support doctoral training in psychology that seeks to: Promote culturally competent behavioral health services and policy for ethnic minority populations. Increase the number of ethnic minority psychologists providing behavioral health services and developing policy for ethnic minority populations.

• Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (MHSAS)
  opens in new window The goal of the Postdoctoral MHSAS Fellowship Program is to encourage and facilitate the specialized training of postdoctoral psychologists who maintain a professional focus on behavioral health services or policy for ethnic minorities.

• Master’s Fellowship in Services for Transition Age Youth (STAY)
  opens in new window A federally funded program to support the training of master’s level practitioners in mental health services. This fellowship is designed for students in terminal master’s programs in psychology whose training prepares them to provide mental health services to transition age youth (ages 16 through 25) and their families.

All PI Scholarships, Grants, and Awards

Past awards and grants

• Suinn Minority Achievement Awards
  This award rewarded graduate programs in psychology that demonstrated excellence in the recruitment, retention, and graduation of ethnic minority students.

• Jeffrey S. Tanaka Memorial Dissertation Award in Psychology
  An award for the most outstanding dissertation in psychology which addresses concerns relevant to populations of color.

• Committee on Women in Psychology Leadership Awards
  These awards recognize the outstanding delivery of psychological services to women.

Programs

• Adults and Children Together (ACT) Against Violence
  A violence prevention project that is designed to prevent violence by providing young children with positive role models and environments that teach nonviolent problem-solving.

• Safe and Supportive Schools Project
  This project helps schools, families and communities promote the healthy growth and full development of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and questioning (LGBQ) youth by providing capacity-building assistance to schools and other organizations that serve gay and bisexual young men at risk for HIV infection, especially African-American and Latino youth.

• Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology (LIWP)  
  LIWP prepares, supports, and empowers women psychologists as leaders to promote positive changes in institutional and organizational life, increases the diversity, number and effectiveness of women psychologists as leaders, and ensures that leadership training opportunities are available for mid-career and senior women psychologists in all of their diversities and disabilities. 

• Recovery to Practice (RTP)
  A five-year initiative that develops an online resource on recovery principles and practices for mental health professionals and recovery-focused trainings for mental health professionals that enhance the current psychology training system by emphasizing recovery outcomes as the basis for clinical care, the recovery knowledge, skills and attitudes of students, supervisors and administrators in psychology.

Conferences

• Psychology Summer Institute (PSI)opens in new window
  PSI provides educational, professional development, and one-on-one mentoring experiences to advance psychology doctoral students and early career psychologists by guiding participants toward developing grant proposals, postdoctoral fellowships, dissertations, treatment programs, publications or program evaluation projects which focus on issues affecting ethnic minority communities.