Panel Discussions
System Stakeholder Issues
Rachel R. Ouellette, Ph.D.
Psychology Fellow
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut
Xin Zhao, M.S.
Psychology Resident
University of Washington School of Medicine
Seattle, Washington
Evan Auguste, Ph.D.
Incoming Assistant Professor
University of Massachusetts Boston
Great Neck, New York
Margaret T. Anton, Ph.D.
Senior Clinical Research Scientist
AbleTo, Inc.
CHARLESTON, South Carolina
Brad Nakamura, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Honolulu, Hawaii
Margaret H. Sibley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
University of Washington School of Medicine
Seattle, Washington
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought our collective attention to longstanding and worsening mental health care disparities and gaps. Novel opportunities to address systemic inequities and improve access to quality care have emerged, including private sector and community-engaged work. Panelists, representing diverse identities and career stages, have worked in different settings to disseminate and implement cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and bring evidence-based care into new areas. Despite valuable opportunities to learn and practice dissemination and implementation outside of traditional settings, interdisciplinary conversations, community partnership, and collaborations are essential to increasing access to high quality care to all. This panel will highlight ongoing work to support patients and their families by enlisting new settings and sectors, including nonprofit-organizations, schools, virtual behavioral health care providers, mental health agencies, and a university and statewide public health partnership. Opportunities and challenges to promote and support evidence-based practice and decrease inequities across settings (e.g., schools, primary care, community mental health) and sectors (i.e., public vs private and profit vs. nonprofit) will be discussed. Panelists will share their community-partnered research journeys to encourage discussion around (1) the merging of scholarly and local knowledge (including presenting examples of such data) to identify research priorities; (2) opportunities for community partners and digital platforms to support marginalized and minoritized communities; and (3) the future of engaging with schools, agencies, and industry partners after the pandemic.