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mmunity Psychiatrist
Volume 39, Number 1
President's Column
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Altha J. Stewart, MD President, American Association for Community Psychiatry
As I write this column, I’m looking back at the past six months with an enormous sense of pride for the AACP’s accomplishments during that time. In the last six months we have navigated the re-formatted 2022 MHSC (aka IPS) meeting, gathered the membership for AACP updates and social networking, and started 2023 with a series of successful activities by our 3 active working groups, formerly called “planks”. And I could not be prouder to celebrate with all of you the publication of the Textbook of Community Psychiatry (links to purchase: Springer or Amazon) which I expect will become the new standard for training programs, clinical practice, and policy development for the field of community psychiatry heading into the future.
The AACP Policy & Advocacy forums which started as my opportunity to hear what members saw as important topics for us to tackle have become a well-attended, action oriented component of our member engagement efforts and will continue moving forward. The enthusiastic members of the communications and collaborations team expanded their work to include a podcast - The Community Psychiatry Podcast (available on Spotify and ApplePodcasts). We have also started a new Instagram account which you can find at https://www.instagram.com/aacp_communitypsych/. Please follow, review, and share!
Big shout outs to Hannah Lynch, Jean Wu, Angela Liu, Robert Gadomski, Jessica Isom and Zoe Wyse for the work you’ve done to introduce AACP to a broader community as part of your work with the communications and collaborations group. Please reach out to Angela Liu if you have ideas for topics or speakers for the podcast at angelaliu515@gmail.com You can also find us on Twitter (@AACP123). Thank you also to Mira Bodic as she continues to do a terrific job as newsletter editor and webmaster, as well as working now on updating our website. Check it regularly for news about community psychiatry updates and AACP activities and volunteer opportunities.
Spring 2023
