🗣WE DID IT! My talk is now on TEDx YouTube, so PLEASE HELP ME GET TRACTION! ✨CLICK ✨SHARE ✨RT ➡️ youtu.be/AKEt0IWU4d0 🔑: American Psychological Association + APHA declared #racism to be a health crisis. I show prevention + intervention efforts to address the “virus” harming Black youth.

New Pub Alert!!🥳 In this paper, we examine the dimensions of racial socialization competency among parents of Black adolescents, through qualitative methods. So grateful to have been a part of such an amazing team! (ri)ch auntie Dr. B Lydia HaRim Ahn, PhD Dr. Misha Inniss-Thompson Nkemka Anyiwo

Late to the postdoc recruitment party, but we'd love to hire a Clinical/School Psych Postdoc on our implementation/intervention trials focused on advancing youth mental health equity. Applicants from groups underrepresented in psych science are strongly encouraged! Pls RT/share.

Featured Psychologist: Shawn C.T. Jones, PhD Shawn C.T. Jones SCCAP Shaping the future of clinical child and adolescent psychology science, practice, and policy for Black youth and families! #BHM #BlackHistoryMakers ayaresearch.org/ourteam/shawnc…

Come join the UCLA team!

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It's About Time Black Lives Matter: The Urgency of Research on Black Youth Development "I write this article as a developmental scientist, a subject matter expert, and a Black mother to a Black adolescent son." A thread

Our lab is hiring a research assistant to contribute to the conduct of school-based intervention/ implementation trials focused on advancing youth mental health equity. Apply at hr.mycareer.ucla.edu/applicants/Cen… Please RT and share with soon to be grads ready to launch this summer!

Thank you Neil Lewis, Jr., PhD for answering my q during your great Tufts Psychology talk. I valued your emphasis that individual choices (e.g., sending your kid to a specific school) do not discount collective action (e.g., supporting policies that address inequity, not being a NIMBY)

Y'all my first sole author paper has gone live. So happy to have published my first paper in the midst of a pandemic, having a new baby, and dissertating. Details the lived experiences of Latinx immigrant-origin adolescents from the suburban midwest. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

Spring 2022 issue of "Focus: The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry" features youth MH: families, trauma from maltreatment, suicide, the Black youth suicide crisis, & pediatric psychopharm for depression & anxiety. Amy and I are Guest Editors! bit.ly/3w9R3t3

#MentalHealthAwarenessMonth Jocelyn Meza, PhD👩🏻‍💻🇲🇽 Amalia Londoño Tobón, MD, IMH-E®🇨🇴🇺🇸 She/Ella Howard Liu, MD MBA American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry American Psychiatric Association Amanda Joy Calhoun, MD, MPH Daniel E. Gih MD Kelli Dominick MD PhD Barbara Robles Ramamurthy, MD

Hot off the press! New paper looking at the intergenerational effects of racism! Jocelyn Meza, PhD👩🏻‍💻🇲🇽 @DreamLabUSC sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Congrats to Youth Suicide Research Consortium member Arielle Sheftall of Nationwide Children's Hospital for being featured among “Women Leading Mental Health Research” by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Link here: nimh.nih.gov/research/women…

In this month's Focus by Jocelyn Meza, PhD👩🏻‍💻🇲🇽 et al: Black youth suicide crisis with ⬆️suicide deaths disproportionately in Black youths; young (age 5-12) Black children dying at nearly 2x the rate of White children. Trauma from racism and barriers to care must be urgently addressed.

The day my R01 got funded. Not familiar with an NIH R01? Being awarded one is equivalent to a movie star winning an Oscar. Being a black male formerly incarcerated med school professor being awarded an R01 ... is like Halle Berry winning the Oscar for leading female role, n of 1.

Alright, I'm back from #apschi22 and wanted to elaborate on what I meant in this slide, for folks who were following along on twitter! THREAD 🧵(1/n)

Our Youth Suicide Research Consortium conference concurrent sessions will include the following talks covering qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-methods in youth suicide research. Conference is this Friday, and registration ends today: youthsuicideresearch.org/registration

NEW ARTICLE ALERT and an important one for us -- We developed a conceptual model that integrates critical race theory, harm reduction, and self-determination theory. (Motivational interviewing aligns naturally with the model.) Then we asked participants about it.