Multicultural Advances SIG

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Encourages collaboration, communication, education, research, mentoring, and networking focused on multicultural issues within anxiety, depression, and related disorders. This SIG aims to facilitate increased attention on topics and issues concerning diversity and multiculturalism within ADAA and in the field in general, and encourages discussion, collaboration, and research among researchers, clinicians, and stakeholders interested in meeting the mental health needs of diverse underserved communities.

ADAA has also launched a Spanish-language online peer-to-peer support community as part of our ongoing efforts to provide enhanced resources for our Hispanic community.  

To access ADAA's public resources related to Diversity & Inclusion please click here

To join this SIG, please login to your member account/ Please contact ADAA with questions. View the ADAA SIG Guidelines


SIG Co-Chairs:

  • Natalie Arbid, PhD, UCLA 
  • Amber Calloway, PhD, University of Pennsylvania

SIG Student Representatives:

  • Taylar Clark, BA
  • Aileen Kangavary, BA

Board Liaison:
Sheila Rauch, PhD, ABPP, Emory University School of Medicine 

2021-2022 Annual Report

Accomplishments

  • SIG Champion award established and awarded
    • 2021 None Awarded
    • 2020 Awarded to Lizabeth Roemer
    • 2019  Awarded to Heidi Montoya Perez
    • 2018 awarded to Jen Martinez
    • 2017 awarded to Sarah Hayes and Carmela Alcantara 
    • 2016 awarded to Liz Roemer
    • 2015 awarded to Alies Muskin

The SIG Champion is chosen by SIG co-chairs on an annual basis. Co-chairs identify a SIG member who has gone over and above to advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion within the ADAA organization.

We created a new outreach and scheduling process to increase the volume of multicultural content on the ADAA website.

We launched several identity-related webinars and identity-related blog posts including:

ADAA has also launched a Spanish-language online peer-to-peer support community as part of our ongoing efforts to provide enhanced resources for our Hispanic community. 

Plans for 2022

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic, co-chairs will be unable to attend the 2022 conference in person. We hope to survey our community members in order to better understand ways we can support each other remotely. We will send this survey to the members by the end of March 2022 and hope to implement some of the suggestions by June 2022.