The Public Interest Directorate offers several opportunities for psychologists to apply for committee membership, apply or nominate colleagues for awards, research funding, fellowships and participate in training programs and conferences.
Call for Nominations to the Committee on Disability Issues in Psychology
The committee, which provides leadership within APA to shape policy, research and best practices in the field of psychology and disability, seeks nominations for two new members to begin three-year terms on Jan. 1, 2014.
Committee on Aging
The committee is accepting nominations, including self-nominations, for two new members. CONA is the chief committee within the APA governance structure charged with addressing aging concerns. In its 11th year of existence, CONA seeks full members of APA with specialization in aging issues to serve a three-year term beginning January 2012 and ending December 2014.
Committee on Socioeconomic Status (PDF, 365KB)
The committee is pleased to invite nominations for membership on the committee. CSES anticipates two membership vacancies and are seeking qualified candidates to serve three-year terms commencing January 2012. Nominations can originate from individuals, APA committees, boards, and divisions, as well as self-nominations.
Committee on Children, Youth, and Families
The committee welcomes nominations from individuals with substantial expertise and demonstrated experience in applying psychological knowledge to the well being and optimal development of children, youth, and families, in issues advancing psychology as a science and profession in the area of promoting health and human welfare, and more.
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Concerns
Nominees with experience or expertise in areas such as people with disabilities, transgender people, indigenous people, LGBT youth, especially bullying, self-identification as an ally, public policy, and dissemination and implementation of reports and guidelines are sought to fill two positions beginning January 1, 2012.
Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs (PDF, 23KB)
This committee seeks nominations for two new members to begin three-year terms on Jan. 1, 2012 and welcomes the nomination of candidates who possess knowledge and expertise of other diverse populations such as disability, early career, national origin, sexual orientation, etc. To fulfill its mandate for ethnic representation and its commitment to gender equity, the two vacant slates are for African-American male psychologists and Latino/Hispanic male psychologists.
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.
Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy
This award honors a psychologist who has made a distinguished empirical and/or theoretical contribution to research in public policy, either through a single extraordinary achievement or a lifetime of work.
Suinn Minority Achievement Awards
This award rewards graduate programs in psychology that have demonstrated excellence in the recruitment, retention, and graduation of ethnic minority students.
Predoctoral Fellowship in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (MHSAS)
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)
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.
MFP Achievement Program Awards
The APA Minority Fellowship Program held an award ceremony honoring MFP Alumni at different points in their career.
Programs & Conferences
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.
Behavioral Social Science Volunteers (BSSV)
This program has established a national network of behavioral and social science volunteers made up of psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, public health experts, social workers, and others whom assist with HIV prevention efforts in their communities by offering free and ongoing technical assistance to community-based organizations (CBOs) that want cutting edge science prevention, and more.
HIV Office for Psychology Education (HOPE) Program
This program enhances psychologists' ability to competently and compassionately respond to people infected and affected by HIV by training and certifying more than 450 regional program volunteer trainers to deliver interactive workshops, based on APA-approved curricula, for more than 28,000 mental health providers in their geographic area since 1991.
Healthy, Gay, and Bisexual Students Project (HLGBSP)
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, and more.
Socioeconomic Status Related Cancer Disparities Program (SESRCD) Program
This program encourages mental health professionals to provide cancer-serving organizations with access to practice-based strategies that address socioeconomic cancer disparities, develops and sustains a network of behavioral and social science volunteers (BSSVs) to provide community cancer serving organizations, and more.
Conferences
Work, Stress, and Health Conference
This conference covers topics of interest to labor, management, practitioners, and researchers such as economic aspects of job stress, work and family issues, new forms of work organization, changing worker demographics, and best practices for preventing stress and improving the health of workers and their organizations. Attend poster and paper presentations, and symposia on these topics.
Psychology Summer Institute (PSI)
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.
Women and Disabilities Conference
A two-day national multidisciplinary conference to educate health professionals by highlighting special issues concerning women with disabilities, including health disparities, disease prevention, health promotion and maintenance, heath conditions, reproductive health, psychological health, abuse, access to care and services, and health equity.
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