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ANA Past President Keynotes SAMHSA MFP National Conference

Beverly Malone, PhD, RN, FAAN, past president of the American Nurses Association (ANA), was honored on March 24 as keynote speaker at the national conference of the Minority Fellows Program (MFP) sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). 

An Alumna of the MFP and currently chief executive officer of the National League for Nursing, Malone told members of the nation’s core mental health professions that “there is no excellence without diversification,” and pointed to the MFP program as “a model” for diversifying the health care pipeline in the United States. 

The SAMHSA conference, “Weaving the Tapestry of Health: Improving Behavioral Health in Diverse Populations through Science and Cultural Sensitivity,” brought together MFP fellows and officials representing ANA, the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, American Psychiatric Association, American Psychological Association, and the Council on Social Work Education.  ANA Minority Fellowship Program administers pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships funded by SAMHSA.  Since its inception nearly three decades ago, the program has supported more than 266 ethnic minority nurse fellows in their pursuit of leadership positions in research, education, clinical practice, and public policy.

A panel on culturally competent treatment programs included Willa Doswell, PhD, RN, FAAN, chair of ANA’s MFP National Advisory Committee, on parish nurse interventions on underserved African American women.  Doswell is tenured associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing.


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Presentations (in PDF format)

Day 1

• Minority Fellowship Program Experiences and Guidelines for Careers in Weaving the Tapestry of Health
• Adding Diversity to an Academic Career
• The Importance of Mentorship in the Transition from Graduate Student to the Academia

Day 2

• LGBTQ Youth: Risk & Resiliency for Behavioral Health Problems
• Culturally Relevant Approaches To Treatment & Recovery In Dual-Diagnosed Patients
• The Story of the Child Who Became a Victim But Was Called a Criminal
• The Primary Care and Psychiatry Interface
• Culturally Competent Treatment Programs
• Cultural Competence: The Myth, The Science, The Reality
• Science and Cultural Sensitivity: Improving Behavioral Health in Diverse Populations
• Center for Substance Abuse Treatment
• Moving the Health Disparities Needle: Data Opportunities within SAMHSA’s Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality
• A Parish Nurse Intervention Model: A Pilot Community Health Initiative to Reduce a Behavioral Health Disparity
• What About Gender and Sexual Orientation?
• Training the Next Generation in Culture and Mental Health
• New Horizons in Prevention

Day 3

• Trauma and Recovery
• Mental Health Disparities: What have we learned?