Graduate Psychology Education Programs - Disciplines: Psychology doctoral interns. Requested funding amount: $1,349,941 (3Y-Total) Brief overview: The purpose of the proposed training program, Building the Pipeline of?Multicultural Substance Use (including Opioids) Trauma-informed Health Service Psychologists (M-STOP), is to prepare a new generation of doctoral-level health service psychologists with substance use, trauma-informed, and culturally attuned, expertise to build psychology careers in interdisciplinary community-based primary care settings in high need and high demands. Concurrently, we intend to fill the gaps in psychological services in four partnering community health centers (CHCs) with trainees whose identities and backgrounds reflect the diversity of the CHCs. Our target population consists of more than 39,000 individuals served by the four?CHCs. Trainees will include five psychology doctoral-level interns, each year. Over three years, we will provide placements to 15?trainees who will provide 8,320 hours of on-site clinical work per year in the CHCs. Summary of goals. The goals of the M-STOP Program, will be: 1) To develop five?new year-long training?positions on interdisciplinary primary care teams in four?CHCs; 2) To develop a multi-level, evidence-based 12-month curriculum in trauma-informed care and in substance use prevention and intervention; 3) To match with, place, and train 15?diverse doctoral psychology interns, over the course of three years; and 4) to devise and implement systems for ongoing program management, data collection, quarterly and annual evaluation, quality improvement and regional and national dissemination of M-STOP. How the project will be accomplished. The project will be led by the Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology (CMTP) at Boston Medical Center (BMC). The oldest multicultural psychology doctoral internship in the nation (52 years), CTMP has been accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA) since 1986. To date, 87% of CMTP trainees have identified as being racially and ethnically minoritized- BIPOC individuals.?Shamaila Khan, PhD, Director of the CTMP, will serve as .2 FTE Project Director. Faculty will be drawn both from the CTMP and the BMC Department of Psychiatry. M-STOP will collaborate with the CHCs to assess their needs, design experiential placements, and ensure that the multi-level M-STOP curriculum addresses the needs of the target population. All trainees will be mentored and supervised by BMC/CMTP faculty and also have on-site supervision. A .2 FTE project coordinator and a .2FTE project evaluator will assemble a REDCap database, ensure that all data collection and reporting requirements are met, and evaluate M-STOP processes and outcomes. BMC’s Zoom platform will be used for on-line training, mentoring /supervision, and the delivery of telehealth services. Specific measurable objectives: 1.1 No later than 3/31/2025, complete assessment of CHC psychology workflows and unmet clinical needs; 1.2 No later than 6/30/2025, complete design of experiential placements; 2.1 No later than 5/31/2025, develop curriculum outlines; 2.2 No later than 8/31/2025, finalize multi-level curriculum; 3.1 No later than 9/1/2025, place first cohort of five trainees in CHCs; 3.2 No later than 8/31/2028, complete three iterations of M-STOP Program; 4.1 No later than 9/1/25, implement systems for data collection, program management and quality improvement.4.2 No later than 9/1/25, implement quarterly and annual evaluations of M-STOP Program; 4.3 No later than 8/31/28, disseminate M-STOP Program through professional associations, national conferences and scholarly publications. The aim will be to sustain the project post-award by making efforts to secure additional/alternative funding for sustainability. Funding priority: Yes.
