Subject: DCAP Social Justice Education (SJE) Newsletter

Division DEI tools, resources, updates, and more!
 
 

SJE Newsletter

brought to you by the DCAP Social Justice Education & Training Subcommittee

 
 

Newsletter Contributors:

Tiffany Beason | Jackie Atunrase | Janice Mace

Kelly Willis | Robbie Paine | Courtney Vaughan | Caitlyn McNulty

 

The Social Justice Education & Training Committee within the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is excited to release the first edition of our newsletter! The mission of our committee is to provide education, training, and resources to faculty, staff, and trainees and to develop programming within our division that address diversity, equity, and inclusion. However, we recognize the importance of taking time to acknowledge, reflect on, and appreciate where each of us currently stand in our understanding of issues surrounding DEI prior to engaging in division-wide training, education, and programming efforts. In that spirit, we have gathered resources for this initial newsletter that we hope will facilitate individual self-reflection, exploration, and development related to various DEI topics.

 

Department of Psychiatry Updates


All are invited to attend monthly Department of Psychiatry Diversity Committee meetings. Next meeting: Thurs, Mar 31st, 4:00 – 5:00 PM.


Visit the Department of Psychiatry Diversity Committee Hub to learn more about DEI efforts across the department and division subcommittees.


Contact Dr. Anique Forrester (aforrest@som.umaryland.edu), Chief of Diversity for the Department of Psychiatry, with questions about departmental DEI initiatives and meetings.


The Year in Review Meeting hosted by Dr. Forrester in July can be downloaded and viewed here.


Join Grand Rounds DEI on Thursdays, 12:00 – 1:30 PM.



Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Updates


Division DEI Champions:

  • Kim Gordon-Achebe, MD is the Program Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship

  • Ashley Woods, LSCW-C is a Senior Counselor with the University of Maryland School Mental Health Program

  • Taneisha Carter, BA is a senior Clinical Research Assistant with the National Center for School Mental Health 


Division DEI Champions serve the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Their role is to support the Division Director, Sarah Edwards, DO, and the Chief of Diversity, Anique Forrester, MD, to incentivize DEI efforts across the division.



Division DEI Meetings and Events


  • National Center for School Mental Health (NCSMH)

    • NCSMH Leadership DEI Meeting (bi-weekly)

    • NCSMH All-Staff DEI Meeting (monthly)

  • School Mental Health Program (SMHP)

    • DEIA meeting (weekly)


 

1..Engage in self-reflection about the multiple facets of your personal identity, because they inform your own worldviews, beliefs, and biases. We all have identities and related associations with various social and cultural groups. The various parts of our identities intersect and inform who we are. Use this Starburst Identity Chart from facinghistory.org to consider the multiple facets of your identity.

 

2. Reflect on your biases. People from all backgrounds have biases or preferences for and prejudices against different groups. Educator, practitioner and researcher biases impact how we carry out our work as well as our perceptions of and relationships with others (I.e., colleagues, patients, trainees, research participants, etc.). Reflecting on our personal biases can reveal areas where we actively embrace cultural differences and promote equity as well as areas where we can make improvements. These resources can support you in reflecting on your personal biases and how they can help or hinder you in fostering social justice in your professional role(s). The Harvard Implicit Association Task is designed to help people understand their hidden or implicit biases. 

 

3. Reflect on your privilege. Privilege refers to advantages and benefits individuals receive because of social groups they are (or are perceived to be) a part of. We can experience privilege within various domains of personal identity. Dr. Pamela Hayes developed an “ADDRESSING” model to help us recognize 10 common factors of cultural difference (e.g., age, developmental and acquired disabilities, religion/spiritual identity, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, Indigenous heritage, national origin, and gender identity) and how those factors relate to power and privilege. Review the ADDRESSING table and consider: In what different aspects of your identity do you hold privilege (or lack thereof)? How does your privilege (or lack thereof) within these 10 domains show up in your personal and professional spaces?

 

4. Reflect on what feelings come up for you as you consider and/or discuss topics related to culture, identity, privilege, etc. It is normal for people to experience various emotions when discussing these topics. It is helpful to have an awareness of what feelings come up for us as we foster cultural humility within ourselves to help us be more intentional about (and less avoidant of) growth in this area.


 
Share a resource with the SJE subcommittee

 

Dr. Tiffany Beason, SJE Co-Chair, is a licensed clinical and community psychologist and Assistant Professor at the School of Medicine and faculty at the National Center for School Mental Health (NCSMH).  Dr. Beason serves as Director of Cultural Responsiveness, Anti-Racism and Equity within the National Center for Safe Supportive Schools. Dr. Beason is also Co-Developer of a national curriculum for educators to promote culturally responsive and equitable mental health support in classrooms.


Dr. Jackie Atunrase, SJE Co-Chair, is a postdocoral fellow at the National Center for School Mental Health (NCSMH), where she serves as a clinician in the School Mental Health Program (SMHP) and provides support to the American Academy of Pediatrics Project as well as the Prince George's County School Mental Health Initiative (PGSMHI). Dr. Atunrase's clinical and research interests focus broadly on advocating for equitable access to high quality mental health services for underprivileged minority youth and the implementation of evidence-based services in school settings.


Janice Mace, SJE Co-Chair, is a senior counselor at the National Center for School Mental Health (NCSMH). Ms. Mace serves as Project Coordinator for Maryland’s State Opioid Response - Student Assistance Program, as well as Co-Developer and Coordinator of a district-wide substance use prevention and early intervention initiative in Baltimore County Public Schools.  Her prior roles include the provision of program development and implementation support, training and professional learning, collaborative staff consultation, and school-based mental health clinical services.


Kelly Willis serves as Associate Director and Lead Counselor

in the School Mental Health Program (SMHP) at the National Center for School Mental Health (NCSMH). Mrs. Willis’ programmatic efforts focus on enhancing the training model for best practices and service delivery for all SMHP staff including licensed social workers and professional counselors, doctoral interns, psychiatry fellows, and graduate level trainees.


Courtney Vaughan serves as School Transition Specialist with the University of Maryland's BFAST Program (Bringing Families & Schools Together). The purpose of this program is to support students, families, and school staff as a student returns to their school and community following a psychiatric hospitalization at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore.


Dr. Robbie Paine is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and a child psychiatrist for the Child Program of Assertive Community Treatment and supervises trainees in the ADHD, Mood, and Center for Infant Studies (CIS) clinics. Dr. Paine's reasearch interests include developmental trauma, attachment disorders, complex psychopharmacology, psychodynamic psychotherapy, positive psychiatry, mindfulness-based psychotherapy, primary care consultation, and telepsychiatry.


Dr. Nancy Lever is Co-Director of the National Center for School Mental Health (NCSMH) and Executive Director of the University of Maryland School Mental Health Program. For over 20 years Dr. Lever has led the advancement of interdisciplinary school behavioral health training for advanced graduate psychology, psychiatry, and social work students, as well as for the current education, health, and behavioral health workforce.

She has had leadership roles on numerous federal and state research projects related to school mental health quality and sustainability, and has represented the school mental health voice on national, state, and local committees.

 

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