The Summer Treatment Program SIG Updates

The Summer Treatment Program SIG Updates

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

Happy Fall! We hope those of you who ran an STP had a successful season and are adjusting to the school-year routine. Before you know it, we will all be back to summer planning. If you are like us, you think about summer all year long.

Our goals for this fall are to continue increasing subscribers to our listserv and nurture connections between STP communities. We hope you take advantage of the rich exchange of information between our members about best ways to prepare for your STP. If you have a question or have opportunities to share, please feel welcome to post them. We also will organize quarterly outreach to members around common topics that come up in preparation for summer.  

We plan to gather again at the annual ADHD SIG meeting at ABCT, which will be held in New Orleans this year. The pre-conference meeting is scheduled for Thursday, November 20th, 9am-4:30pm. Additionally, several current and former STP directors will be participating in a Clinical Round Table at the conference on Friday, November 21st, from 10:15-11:45am 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 Families, 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 us, the primary goal of the STP SIG 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. For more information, visit our website.

As we have said before, 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!