Acute, Intensive, & Residential Services SIG Update

Acute, Intensive, & Residential Services SIG Update

By Elizabeth Frazier, PhD
AIRS Special Interest Group Chair

The AIRS SIG started summer off with a bang by attending the inaugural SCCAP Conference in Chicago. Thank you to everyone who attended the presentation, “AIRS In Review: Past, Present, and Future.” Presentation slides can be found here for your convenience. We also celebrated our 2025 AIRS award winners!

Congratulations to:

• Elizabeth K. Reynolds, PhD – 2025 AIRS Distinguished Professional Contributions Award
• Mackenzie S. Sommerhalder, PhD – 2025 AIRS Distinguished Early Career Psychologist Professional Contributions Award
• Ashley A. Brooks, PsyM – 2025 AIRS Distinguished Student Contributions Award

2025 AIRS Outstanding Student Poster Award – “Identifying Adolescents at Risk for Acute Psychiatric Rehospitalization: A Two-Year Survivor Analysis” – Logan R Cummings, PhD, Kyle R Noll, PhD, Alia R Warner, PhD, Daniel Dickstein, MD, and Ana M. Ugueto, PhD.

It was wonderful to spend time brainstorming innovative clinical strategies and research questions, network with colleagues new and old, and enjoy good company in a great city. Many thanks to the SCCAP Conference planning committee and all who worked together to make this event such a success!

Looking ahead to our next conference, APA in Denver, please join us on Thursday August 7th at 10am for an AIRS Social Hour in the SCCAP suite (EMBASSY SUITES, ASPEN ROOM B, THIRD FLOOR). We also hope to see you at AIRS-related presentations such as:

Thursday August 7th

“Addressing the Youth Mental Health Crisis: Developing a Coordinated Continuum of Clinical Services”

“Enhancing Treatment Outcomes on an Inpatient Psychiatric Unit Through Use of Measurement-Based Care.”

Friday August 8th

“Transporting Intervention from School to Inpatient Settings: Integrating PBIS in a Therapeutic Milieu”

When we’re not traveling and enjoying conferences, the AIRS SIG continues to provide support and resources for trainees, clinicians, researchers, and administrators in acute and residential care settings. We are actively working on our website to provide easy access to resources such as AIRS related training programs, referral options, supervision resources, relevant research, and more.  Keep an eye out for trainee-focused coffee hours this Fall in preparation for internship and postdoc as well as ongoing early-career consultation groups via zoom, which are all announced via the listserv.

Our members also maintain lively discussions about key clinical and research issues impacting acute care services. We welcome you to post questions and provide discussion on our listserv. Please note, you must maintain an active SCCAP membership to remain on the AIRS listserv. It was brought to our attention that some AIRS members did not renew their SCCAP membership on time and were removed from the AIRS listserv earlier this year. If you think this may have happened to you, please reach out to Jaclyn Aldrich, PhD at jaclyn.aldrich@nationwidechildrens.org. We wouldn’t want you to miss out!

If you are not yet a member of the AIRS SIG, what are you waiting for? We would love for you to join us. Simply log in to the SCCAP website and sign up on our webpage here.

Thank you to our executive board and all of our AIRS members for making the AIRS SIG an invaluable resource for collaboration, validation, creative problem solving, and dissemination of evidence-based practice in acute and residential care settings. We truly appreciate you!

If you have any questions about the AIRS SIG, please reach out to Elisabeth Frazier, PhD at elisabeth.frazier@osumc.edu  .

2025-2026 AIRS Board

• Chair: Elisabeth Frazier, PhD
• Chair Elect: Rachel Schein, PhD
• Secretary: Chinwendu Duru, PhD
• Treasurer: Jennifer Wolff, PhD
• Communications Member at Large: Katie Affleck, PhD
• Membership and Marketing Member at Large: Jaclyn Aldrich, PhD
• Education Committee Co-Chairs: Gail Corneau, PhD and Sheena Friesen, PhD
• Science Committee Chair: Elizabeth Reynolds, PhD
• Awards Committee Chair: Kimberly Schubert, PhD
• Practice Committee Chair: Jennifer Hellmuth, PhD
• Community Engagement Committee Chair: Leyla Erguder-Kaplan, PhD
• Early Career Members at Large: Meredith Reiman, PhD and Mackenzie Sommerhalder, PhD
• Trainee Members at Large: Ashley Brooks and Rachel Grace Thompson