Awards, Conferences and Committee Nominations

Awards

CDIP Awards

• Mentorship of Students with Disabilities Award
  The purpose of this award is to give special recognition to psychologists who have provided outstanding formal or informal mentoring to psychology students with disabilities.

• 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.

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.
  Deadline: June 6, 2012

• 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.
  Deadline: June 6, 2012

Grants

• Commission on Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention and Training in Psychology (CEMRRAT) (PDF, 115KB)
  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.
  Deadline: Rolling Basis

Past Awards & Grants

• CLGBTC Outstanding Achievement Awards
  These awards recognize psychologists for significant contributions to the mission of CLGBTC.

• 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.

• 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.

• Promoting Psychological Research and Training on Health Disparities Issues at Ethnic Minority Serving Institutions (ProDIGs)
  This small grant program supports early career faculty for specific, limited and highly focused activities related to the preparation of a federal or foundation funding proposal.

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

• 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

• 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.  
  Fall 2011