You change the world by being yourself.
― Yoko Ono
The MFP is an initiative staffed by ANA with funding from SAMHSA, making fellowships available to ethnic and racial psychiatric nursing students who are enrolled full time in an accredited master’s/doctoral nursing program.
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
This week’s recommended Health and Wellness Activity
HEALTH DISPARITY RELATED ARTICLES
Summary Report: Listening Sessions on Racism in Nursing (June 2021) (opens new window)
Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) nurses face a history of underrepresentation in all aspects of the nursing profession. In a 2019 Federal Workforce Analysis of 50,273 registered nurses, data show White, non-Hispanic nurses continue to dominate the nursing workforce, at 73.3%, leaving 10.2% of nurses identifying as Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish; 7.8% identifying as Black, non-Hispanic; 5.2% identifying as Asian; 1.7% as multiple races; 1.0% as other; 0.6% as Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander; and 0.3% as American Indian or Alaska Native (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2019). Read more (opens new window)
HHS Announces Funding Opportunity for New Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Behavioral Health Center of Excellence (opens new window)
This Mental Health Awareness Month, which is also Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), is announcing a nearly $3.5 million five-year grant opportunity to develop a Center of Excellence, advancing behavioral health care for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities while reducing behavioral health-related disparities. Read more (opens new window)
Overwhelmed health departments are hard-pressed to spend Covid cash for underserved (opens new window)
A year later — with covid having killed 1 million people in the U.S. since the start of the pandemic and hospitalizing millions more — little of the money has been used, according to KHN requests for information from about a dozen state and county agencies' grants. While some states and localities have allocated large portions of the CDC money for projects, they still have spent only a small proportion. Read more (opens new window)
National Academies report cites ‘urgent’ need to recruit more diverse participants for clinical trials (opens new window)
The persistent lack of diversity among participants in clinical trials is a critical issue that is harming both populations that have long been left out of pivotal medical studies and the entire biomedical research enterprise, according to the authors of a report released Tuesday by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Read more (opens new window)
Latest COVID-19 Coverage (opens new window) - Becker's Hospital Review (opens new window) (Updated Weekly)
Becker's Healthcare has consolidated its most essential news and editorial content about COVID-19 here for readers for ease of reference. Read more (opens new window)
MFP/ANA ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPCOMING EVENTS
Congratulations to MFP alumna and current GloCal fellow Schola Matovu, PhD, RN, on being presented with the prestigious 2022 Jane Norbeck Distinguished Service Award from the University of California San Francisco School of Nursing. Read more (opens new window)
Congratulations to MFP alumna and assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine Dawn Bounds, PhD, PMHNP-BC, on being among the national program office for the Betty Irene Moore Fellowship for Nurse Leaders and Innovators at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis' third and largest cohort of fellows. Read more (opens new window)
• NAACP Black Women's Health Forum
MFP alumna and current National Advisory Committee member Lynette M. Gibson, PhD, RN, is among the scheduled speakers
June 4, 2022 at 9:00am/ET Register on site or text/call 864-747-5846
Check out season 2, episode 3 of “Mental Health Trailblazers, Psychiatric Nurses Speak Up!” at emfp.org/news/mental-health-trailblazers-podcast! Current master's Fellow Pak Chau and our host Indrias Kassaye. highlight the importance of culture, community, and alternative treatment options in the mental health field. Pak is enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and is slated to graduate in July of 2022. He is interested in using technology to bridge gaps in care, identifying public health inequities, and providing culturally and linguistically appropriate psychiatric care to minority populations.
The SAMHSA MFP/ANA 2022 Intensive Training Institute is scheduled for July 21-24, 2022 in Washington, DC. This year's theme is
Building a Minority Workforce: A Call to Action for Addressing Health Disparities and Creating Health Equity.
Learn more and register at emfp.org.
The upcoming events may be of interest to you:
About MFP
Funding for the MFP e-Newsletter was made possible (in part) by Grant Number 1H79SM080386-04 from SAMHSA. The views expressed in written training materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
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