Webinar Conversation with Dr. Miriam Delphin-Rittmon
Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
FREE event
Thursday, March 21st, 2024 3:30-4:30 pm ET
Please share with Psychology students, Psychologists, and other mental health professionals. All are welcome, but the event is limited to 500 participants so register today!
Registrants will receive further information for participating via Zoom Webinar.
Program Description: Dr. Miriam Delphin-Rittmon, Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), will speak to issues and priorities in her professional capacity related to the future of behavioral health, workforce needs, and solutions for the 21st century in a 30 minute presentation, followed by a 20-30 minute fireside chat, and then open the remaining time for audience questions.
Dr. Delphon-Rittmon will be visiting Purdue University, West Lafayette March 21-22, 2024 to receive a Distinguished Alumni Award from Purdue University’s College of Health and Human Sciences. Dr. Delphin-Rittmon received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Purdue in 2001. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship in Clinical/Community Psychology at Yale University in 2002. She is the former Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Mental Health & Additiction Services (2015-2021). Her role as Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mentalh Health Services Administration (SAMSHA) includes grants supporting APA Minority Fellowship Program. Her bio is here: https://www.samhsa.gov/about-us/who-we-are/leadership/biographies/miriam-delphin-rittmon
Dr. Delphin-Rittmon
Facilitator Bio: Chalmer E. F. Thompson, PhD
Chalmer E. Thompson, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita of IUPUI and a psychology legal consultant in Indiana. For 30 years, Dr. Thompson has built her scholarship, teaching, and practice around theory development on racialized violence and its application to individual, group, and community-level practices. She also has studied how therapists' "racial talk" can be used to be optimally effective in therapy. She has worked for over 20 years with the psychology department faculty at Kyambogo University in Kampala, Uganda on research projects in peace psychology. She is the recipient of two Fulbright Specialist fellowships and the American Psychological Association (APA) Ignacio Martín-Baró Peace Practitioner Lifetime Award. Dr. Thompson is the author of multiple journal publications, book chapters, and 3 books, including Racial Identity Theory: Applications to Individual, Group, and Organizational Interventions (with Robert T. Carter), An International Casebook in Mental Health (with senior editor Senel Poyrazli) and A Psychology of Liberation and Peace: For the Greater Good. She is a Fellow of APA Divisions 17 (Society for Counseling Psychology), 45 (Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues), and 52 (International Psychology), and the current president of the Indiana Association of Black Psychologists. She is also a member of IPA.
Dr. Chalmer Thompson
