Announcing the Eight 2019-2020 NJPA Foundation Community Service Project Grants

by the NJPA Foundation Board of Trustees

President, Matt Hagovsky, PhD; Secretary, Toby Kaufman, PhD; Treasurer, Abby Rosen; Board Trustee, Regina Budesa, PsyD; Board Trustee, Richard Klein, EdD; Board Trustee, Ann Stainton, PhD; Board Trustee, Alyssa Austern, PsyD; Board Trustee, Belvin Williams, PhD; Board Trustee, Eileen Kohutis, PhD; NJPA President-Elect, Lucy Sant’Anna Takagi, PsyD; Executive Director, Keira Boertzel-Smith, JD

Each year, The NJPA Foundation identifies exemplary programs that provide psychological services to those who cannot afford it and trains doctoral students to work with these underserved populations. We invite applications from programs across the state of New Jersey, with the goal of identifying and supporting model programs from each county. Visit <www. psychologynj.org/njpa-foundation> to read more and make a donation to help us continue this important philanthropic work! We strongly encourage use of the 2020 dues bill for donations to the NJPA Foundation.

Trinitas Regional Medical Center

Trinitas Child Outpatient and Adolescent DBT Externship

Site Director - Atara Hiller, PsyD

NJPAF Funded StudentMadison Perry

Medical Center offers a full array of psychiatric and behavioral health services for children and adolescents and their family members. The students are exposed to a range of clinical experiences at the COPU, including conducting intake evaluations; providing individual cognitive-behavioral and family therapy to children, adolescents, and families with anxiety, mood, and disruptive behavior disorders; and engaging in case management with schools, psychiatric providers, and outside case managers. Students are trained in providing Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to adolescents and their families, who exhibit symptoms of borderline personality disorder and comorbid conditions.

Regional Diagnostic & Treatment Center- General Track Externship @ Newark Beth Israel Medical Center

Site Director - Karyn C. Smarz, PhD plication will be providing treatment and assessment services for an at-risk, underserved trauma population, as part of the general externship track at the Metropolitan Regional Diagnostic and Treatment Center at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center. The Metro RDTC is one of New Jersey’s four state-designated multidisciplinary centers for the evaluation and treatment of abused and neglected children. The Center primarily serves the culturally and socioeconomically diverse children and families who reside in Essex County.

Youth Anxiety and Depression Clinic, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University

Site Director - Brian Chu, PhD

NJPAF Funded Students - Hillary (Gemma) Stern and Melissa Pedroza

The Child and Adolescent Outpatient Unit (COPU) at Trinitas Regional

NJPAF Funded StudentsShaneze Gayle, Megan Ingraham, Jessica Elliott, Jessica Bonumwezi

The doctoral students in this ap-

The Youth Anxiety and Depression Clinic (YAD-C) is an open specialty clinic that provides diagnostic assessment and behavioral therapies for youth with anxiety and mood problems. Youth and parents are referred from a diverse set of community sources. The served families represent a diverse range of SES and ethnic/cultural backgrounds. The clinic actively participates in community outreach activities, including conducting parent and teacher workshops at schools, attending town/school-based community fairs, and engaging in community partnerships for specific underserved populations. The clinic conducts formal diagnostic assessments, collects surveys, and assesses family interaction patterns to help us know which kinds of therapy help most.

Rutgers University, Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology, Foster Care Counseling Project

Site Director - Djenaba Figueroa

NJPAF Funded Students - Mir (Kamran) Meyer, Laura Betheil, Madeline Bono, Alejandra Feliz

All FCCP student clinicians provide individual, family, and dyadic therapy to youth, ranging in age from 3 to 18 years old, with significant histories of trauma. Biological parents, adoptive parents, and resource parents are involved in each child’s therapy, whenever possible, to maximize the success of treatment. FCCP attempts to overcome treatment barriers by providing inhome parent management training and family sessions when treatment barriers prevent the client’s family from attending sessions at the clinic. Additionally, FCCP provides mentors to clients to increase the opportunity for positive peer interactions. FCCP will be offering a group for adolescents involved in resource care and children with sexual abuse histories. While providing treatment, student clinicians offer training and consultation to caregivers, Division of Child Protection & Permanency (DCP&P) caseworkers, community organizations, school personnel, and other professions. They also complete thorough intakes and post-treatment assessments at the beginning and end of treatment, respectively, and make recommendations based on findings to optimize each child’s functioning.

Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Metropolitan Regional Diagnostic and Treatment Center (Metro RDTC) - GBCBT RDTC externship at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center

Site Director - Barbara A. Prempeh, PsyD

NJPAF Funded Students - Yael Osman, Molly Kammen, DeVante Cunningham, Matt Stahl

The doctoral students in this application will be providing treatment and assessment services for an at-risk, underserved trauma population. The Metro RDTC is one of four RDTCs in New Jersey committed to providing medical and psychological evaluations and care for survivors of child abuse and neglect. It is housed in a Child Advocacy Center that bears the distinction of being the first and only fully co-located Child Advocacy Center in New Jersey with all partners onsite. Providing services in this multidisciplinary setting allows for an integrated and coordinated response to abuse and neglect for a community in-need of significant services. Families served at the RDTC are predominantly from economically disadvantaged, urban communities.

Rutgers University, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Tourette Syndrome Clinic

Site Director - Graham Hartke, PsyD NJPAF Funded Students - Hyein Lee,

The Tourette Syndrome Clinic was developed in partnership between Rutgers’ Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology (GSAPP) and the NJ Center for Tourette Syndrome (NJCTS). The Rutgers-NJCTS Therapeutic program is offered through the Psychological Services Clinic at GSAPP that provides a variety of psychological services to the public. The RutgersNJCTS Tourette Syndrome Program offers individual and family therapy for individuals affected by TS, emphasizing evidence-based treatments for TS and related conditions. All therapists are trained in Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics (CBIT that includes Habit Reversal Training (HRT), as well as cognitive behavioral approaches for common comorbid conditions such as ADHD, OCD, ASD, and anxiety and mood disorders. Individual and family therapy may also include supportive, psychoeducational, and skill-building interventions. In addition to individual and family therapy, the clinic offers socioemotional skills groups for school-aged children and teens. Finally, the RutgersNJCTS Tourette Syndrome Program also offers a variety of additional supportive services including diagnostic evaluation, consultation on TS and associated disorders for practitioners, physicians, educators and students, assistance with referrals for physicians, and access to additional resources and services for the TS community.

Rutgers University, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology Rutgers GSAPP- Anxiety Disorders Clinic

Site Director - Andrea Quinn, PsyD NJPAF Funded Students - Joel Seltzer, Idil Franko

The Anxiety Disorders Clinic (ADC) offers low cost, evidence-based, cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety and related disorders to both Rutgers University students and the surround community. The ADC serves a broad age range of clients, including school-aged children and adolescents, to older adults. The ADC offers Exposure with Response Prevention (Ex/ RP), an empirically supported treatment for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder that is challenging to find in the community, particularly at a cost that is feasible for families. As a result, the ADC often has a lengthy waitlist of clients with OCD and anxiety disorders that also benefit from treatment utilizing exposure therapy.

Cognitive therapy and acceptance-based models are also utilized. In addition, the ADC offers no cost, evidence-based group and individual treatment to Veterans, providing not only a much needed service to the community, but also a highly desirable training opportunity for graduate students who hope to work with active duty and veteran populations during their internship year and/or their future careers. The ADC offers treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder using Cognitive Processing Therapy and in addition, treatments are available for additional presenting challenges to both Veterans and their family members. ❖

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Join Us for the 2019 NJPA Trenton Day

December 5, 2019 10:00am – 3:00pm

On Thursday, December 5, 2019, NJPA will hold a 2019 Trenton Day. NJP-PAC will be funding the day with the purpose of providing NJPA and affiliate members an opportunity to delve in to the NJ legislative process, understand how a bill becomes a law, and learn the importance of grassroots advocacy. We will hear from legislators and staff about the process in which legislation is introduced and passed. We’ll share ideas on ways that psychologists and psychologists-in-training can influence the formation of public policies, will plan to sit in for a few minutes at a public hearing, and learn some of the history of state government and its buildings. Lunch will be provided. Meeting location, directions, and parking instructions to follow. All are encouraged to join us!

If you are available to attend, please RSVP here by November 15, 2019.

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NJP-PAC is a non-profit political action committee which makes contributions, from funds received from NJP-PAC contributors, to candidates for office and political committees in New Jersey who have demonstrated their interest in and support of psychology, without regard to party affiliation. These funds are distributed in such a manner as to advance the stature of the profession of psychology in New Jersey.