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APA invites applications for its 2021-22 Congressional and Executive Branch Science fellowships
November 17, 2020
Spend a year in Washington, DC, applying your expertise in psychology to public policy.
November 17, 2020
On the institute’s 10th anniversary, its leader describes accomplishments and new initiatives to enhance population health.
APA advocated successfully for appropriations language in support of research with animals
November 17, 2020
Senate Appropriations Committee calls on NIH to protect research with non-human animals.
Opposing changes to work visas for foreign psychologists
November 17, 2020
APA joined coalition colleagues in opposition to regulations that would make it more difficult to hire international scholars and workers.
Psychological science informs APA response to Department of Labor request for information
November 17, 2020
APA submitted a comprehensive review of diversity training in response to a Department of Labor open comment period on diversity training among federal contractors.
APA and PREVENTS Task Force team up to provide suicide prevention webinars
November 17, 2020
Craig J. Bryan, PsyD, ABPP, will present two webinars on suicide risk assessment and suicide intervention in conjunction with the President’s Roadmap to Empower Veterans and End the National Tragedy of Suicide (PREVENTS) Task Force and #REACH campaign.
Bolstering the education workforce impacted by COVID-19
November 13, 2020
APA supports legislation to ensure a robust education and school-based mental health provider workforce in response to the economic instability due to COVID-19.
November 2, 2020
APA collaborated with the National Association of Social Workers and other nonprofit organizations to successfully reinstate protections in the Texas Social Work Code of Conduct for patients who are LGBTQ or have a disability.
Calling for an end to unnecessary privatization of COVID-19 data reporting protocols
November 2, 2020
APA’s CEO expresses concern about potential politicization of COVID-19 data following recent privatization of data collection changes by the Trump administration. APA calls for a rescission of these changes and for improvements to the nation’s public health surveillance system.
APA-supported mental health and suicide prevention bills signed into law
November 2, 2020
The new laws designate ‘988’ as the national hotline number for suicide intervention and aim to improve staffing at the VA.
Prioritizing COVID-19 vaccine distribution
November 2, 2020
APA brings psychological science of risk communication to Capitol Hill.
Psychologists receive grants to conduct research on gun violence
November 2, 2020
The CDC and NIH announce awards for firearm injury and mortality prevention research.
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