The Summer Treatment Program SIG Updates

The Summer Treatment Program SIG Updates

By Katie Hart, PhD & Sarah Tannenbaum, PsyD, ABPP
Co-Chairs, STP SIG

Summer is here! STPs across the country are busy getting this year’s programming started. If you are interested in learning more and connecting with those who are enjoying the summer magic, please join us!

Here are our updates: The STP Special Issue in Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health is fully available online. There are so many incredible contributions from STPs across the country and world. We are learning so much about the ways in which we can maximize STP outcomes, increase access to programming, improve training experiences, strengthen and diversify the STP workforce, extend the model to new populations and settings, and so much more. The work selected beautifully highlights the lasting impact of Dr. William Pelham, Jr., STP Founder and Visionary. Here is a link to the opening commentary by Dr. Steve Evans. Please check it out!  

We plan to gather again at the annual ADHD SIG meeting at ABCT, which will be held in New Orleans later this year. Additionally, several current and former STP directors will be participating in a Clinical Round Table during the conference titled, “Navigating Accessibility, Cultural Adaptations, and Fidelity in the Summer Treatment Program (STP): Perspectives from Current Program Directors,” organized by Emi Carpenter, doctoral student at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Drs. Alexa Matlack (University of Washington, Camp APEX), Gregory Fabiano (FlU Center for Children and Families, Western New York), Katie Hart (FIU Center for Children and Famlies, Miami), Kelli Lupas (Cincinnati Children’s), Leah Guterman-Sugarman (Child Mind Institute), Sarah Tannenbaum (Judge Baker Center, Camp Baker), and Vasco Lopes (Child Mind Institute) will be the panelists. We hope you can join us there! 

For those of you interested in joining the STP SIG, our primary goal of is to provide a professional forum that supports clinicians, researchers, students/trainees, and administrators in the successful implementation of STPs. We invite you to join our listserv and share emerging or promising practices and interventions that can enhance the STP by increasing access, promoting equity, increasing diversity, improving training practices for the next generation of child mental health practitioners, and incorporating more family/stakeholder feedback and voice into intervention strategies.

As we always say, an STP takes a village, and we are here for you! Please join us in connecting around the world through this program that has changed our lives and so many others. We welcome all your feedback, questions, comments, and insights about STPs! Let’s keep STPs and Dr. Pelham’s legacy going.