The Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) is an innovative Department of Defense psychology training consortium established in the FY 2006 Defense Appropriations Bill. The CDP is a tri-service center training psychologists, psychology interns/residents, and other behavioral health professional from the Army, Navy, and Air Force as well as civilian professionals to provide high quality deployment-related behavioral health services to military personnel and their families. Since its inception in January 2007, the CDP has trained over 100 military personnel and civilians at its core two-week training course held at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, MD and over 500 military personnel and civilians at the ten participating Military Medical Centers across the country. Continued funding for the CDP would allow for the continuation of education and training efforts already underway as well as for the initiation of additional activities that are planned for the CDP, such as increasing outreach to communities impacted by deployments by developing workshops that will be delivered in community settings, developing resources to sustain a peer support and consultation system, increasing delivery of materials and information via internet and other communication technologies, and developing a knowledge base of best practices in the care of deployment-related problems among military personnel and their families. Please visit the CDP website, www.deploymentpsych.org, for further details on the program and for a schedule of upcoming two-week training seminars and workshops.

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