Distinguished Career Award for Practice & Training Recipient: Jonathan Weinand, PhD

2024 Distinguished Career Award for Practice and Training Recipient: Jonathan Weinand, PhD

The SCCAP Distinguished Career Award for Practice and Training recognizes a clinical child and adolescent practitioner who has made a significant and enduring impact on promoting awareness, accessibility, and/or implementation of evidence-based mental health services for youth. This recognition highlights the outstanding work of currently practicing clinicians who take scientifically derived clinical knowledge and promote, provide, or share it on a broader scale, particularly with members of diverse, vulnerable, or underserved groups. An award review committee, chaired by Pascale Stemmle, Psy.D. reviewed the outstanding applications for this award. 

SCCAP is thrilled to announce that the 2025 winner of this award is Jonathan Weinand, PhD, Psychologist at the Community Health Centers of Southeastern Iowa.

Dr. Weinand has made a significant impact regarding increasing awareness, accessibility, and dissemination of a range of evidence-based practices for youth in his community. Dr. Weinand completed his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Illinois Institute of Technology. Over his 35 years of experience since obtaining his PhD, Dr. Weinand has worked in many roles (e.g., clinical psychologist, clinical director, supervisor, consultant, and teacher) and notably, in four different settings including a regional hospital, a community mental health center, his own independent practice, and a community health center.

In terms of promoting awareness and accessibility of evidence-based treatments (EBTs) for all youth and families, Dr. Weinand first established his commitment to treating historically underserved communities while in graduate school in Chicago. Upon moving to Iowa, he has been especially dedicated to caring for children and adolescents in rural and impoverished areas. He is well-versed in the specific challenges that rural communities face, as well as the changing landscape of rural communities over the last 30 years. His EBT clinical practice has included a wide variety of diverse youth with significant adverse childhood experiences, including severely impoverished families, homelessness, children of justice-involved parents, youth whose parents struggle with severe mental illness and substance abuse, and immigrant youth who have suffered severe trauma during life in their country of origin, or during their immigration journey to the United States. He has ensured that these children and adolescents have access to EBTs for a range of diagnoses, including complex trauma, substance use disorders, and serious mental illness.

Dr. Weinand has also been passionate about disseminating EBTs to other practicing clinicians in his community. He spearheaded the initiation of an integrated behavioral health model at his community mental health clinic, which included EBT-based community models for severe mental illness; structured the empirically-based assessment process for diagnostics in youth; and a grant-based EBT training model for clinical services.

Finally, Dr. Weinand has been heavily involved in professional education and leadership, serving on several task forces and committees that seek to integrate science into practice. These include serving on a Division 12 (SCP) Task Force on efficacious psychological treatments, as well as launching a collaboration between SCP and the Society for the Science of Clinical Psychology (SSCP) to address issues regarding the importance of adding the foundational element of science in professional education for APA. Dr. Weinand’s voice as a full-time “boots on the ground” clinician while serving on these task forces has been incredibly valuable to his fellow committee members, as he truly understands the real-world practice of EBTs with a variety of populations. As the associate editor of SCCAP’s clinical research journal, “Evidence-based Practice in Child & Adolescent Mental Health,” Dr. Weinand has also promoted the dissemination of evidence-based practices, and worked to increase knowledge about the expertise, scope, diversity and practice of clinical child and adolescent psychologists.

In sum, through his many hats, we thank Dr. Weinand for the substantial impact he has made on youth, families, behavioral health clinicians, and mental health organizations. SCCAP heartily congratulates Dr. Weinand on his achievement and receipt of this prestigious award!