Siena Tugendrajch, PhD (she/her)

It’s me, I’m the friendly face 🤗

📢 UC San Diego's IN STEP Children's Mental Health Research Center 2025 Pilot Funding is open now! Applications are due Aug 1st, 2025. Don’t miss the opportunity to address cross-cutting gaps and critical targets in community systems caring for children with mental health concerns!

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation.

Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants:

1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process.
2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers.
3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

Mental Health, Substance Use, Trauma Exposure, and Experiences of Discrimination Among Caregivers of Youth With Juvenile Legal System Involvement Family-focused interventions for youth with juvenile legal system involvement place emphasis on improving caregiver wellbeing. However, there is limited work to date characterizing the prevalence and...

🚨hot off the presses🚨

In this study, we examined behavioral health concerns, and experiences of trauma and discrimination among caregivers of youth with juvenile legal system involvement

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Prioritizing Partnerships in School-Based Implementation Research and Practice: Applying the ACCESS Model Schools are the primary context for mental health services for youth in the United States and a critical setting for increasing access to mental health care, especially for youth from low income an...

Amidst all the chaos in academia rn, I'm still very proud to see this truly collaborative effort in print @torreycreed.bsky.social #schoolMH

Prioritizing Partnerships in School-Based Implementation Research and Practice: Applying the ACCESS Model
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🔎Are you the leader of an #impsci team or lab? We are looking to spotlight a DIS SIG member's lab in our Spring Newsletter.

DM us or contact @sarahhelsethphd.bsky.social to learn more!

☕️ March Coffee Hour: We want to focus on alternative or non-federal funding sources. We are looking for volunteers willing to serve as panelists. Please email @kdickson@sdsu.edu if you are interested in being a panelist!

📣 No DIS SIG Matchmaking for ABCT 2025 due to broader ABCT changes (e.g., reduction in the number of symposia accepted). DIS SIG members can use this interest form to try to collaborate, but DIS SIG leadership will not be monitoring: tinyurl.com/ABCT2025collab #ABCT

🚨 Urgent: Stop the Cuts to Research Funding! 🚨

The proposed NIH funding cuts will devastate university research programs, threatening critical discoveries and innovations that improve lives.

📢 Take action now: www.votervoice.net/Shares/BAAAA...

APA/APASI Response Center: Policy Changes & Advocacy Updates Stay informed about APA/APASI's response to recent federal policy changes affecting psychology. Find resources, share your story, and learn how to advocate for scientific integrity.

As the executive branch initiates rapid orders/changes, and agencies scramble to keep up, implement, or pause implementation of each order, clear, fast communication is needed within the psychological community.

This new site will have all of the latest updates you need: updates.apaservices.org

ATTENTION

If you are someone who had an F31-Diversity (or similar) application submitted this cycle, please DM me here, contact me on signal (jeremymberg.78), or email me at jeremymberg@gmail.com.

I will keep all information confidential.

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Siena Tugendrajch on LinkedIn: I’m happy to share that I’m (officially) starting a new position as a… I’m happy to share that I’m (officially) starting a new position as a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Consultant! My consulting areas of expertise include…

No better time like the (highly tumultuous) present to update my LinkedIn profile and share that I have been moving into the consultancy space 👀 Let's work together maybe? www.linkedin.com/posts/siena-...

Lots of big changes coming to the @abctnow.bsky.social conference this year 👀

Exciting question! I took Victoria Shaffer‘s medical decision making course, it’s not necessarily youth MH, but her syllabus could be helpful for background/context: psychology.missouri.edu/sites/defaul...

🚨JOB ALERT🚨We are looking for a Research Support Professional to help us with #learninghealthsystems research with a focus on youth #mentalhealth Looking for folx interested in applying #impsci methods and translating evidence to practice in CO @cuanschutz.bsky.social cu.taleo.net/careersectio...

I’d love to be added! Thank you!

Sarah don’t make me tear up in front of my 5 🩵⛅️ followers!

And always, I am grateful to have the @dissig.bsky.social as my research home and I’ll actually miss being the Membership Officer (if you can believe it) #ABCT2024 #uknowuwantdis

I also wanted to highlight Dr. Chris King at Montclair State University for not only leading an exciting DBT training clinic for people involved in the criminal legal system, but also for posting ALL of his clinic’s materials online for super easy access: www.chriskinglab.com/dbt-clinic-r...

Very excited about the SEEDS assessment measure (www.seedsassessment.com) and its super practical, treatment element-focused implications for clinical practice 😍🌱

Airport monitor with ABCT logo and the Philadelphia LOVE statue

Feeling hopeful about the future of #impsci after #ABCT2024 (especially after spotting this sign at the airport on my way back to Colorado yesterday!)

So excited and proud to be co-chairing one of the @dissig.bsky.social sponsored symposia this weekend at #ABCT2024! Come see us bright and early tomorrow morning to hear about some of the great community-partnered work in Philly! 🌇

It's time to renew your DIS SIG membership! SIG members engage via our active listserv, conference matchmaking and poster sessions, events like our virtual coffee hours and pre/post conference programming, and more!
It's $10 for students and $20 for full members.
Renew at dissig.tidyhq.com

Excited to attend my first SIRC conference this week in Denver! Starting bright and early with an IDW tomorrow AM and then the Advancing Health Equity preconference workshop! #SIRC24 ☀️🏔️🤓

Providing EBP Training in Graduate School to Strengthen the School Mental Health Workforce: A Pilot Offering mental health (MH) care in schools may help youth overcome barriers to accessing services. However, the diverse school MH workforce receives disparate training in evidence-based practice (...

Really proud of this one with
@natalierq.bsky.social
@drtylerchein.bsky.social
Providing EBP Training in Graduate School to Strengthen the School Mental Health Workforce: A Pilot

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Feeling so inspired and hopeful after the NIMH CHIPS Research Training Institute last week in Baltimore! What an amazing opportunity to receive tailored mentorship and build a fantastic network of potential future collaborators! I really encourage child MH folks to apply 🤩

Finally posting here hoping to connect with folks attending the National Center for School Mental Health conference #ASMH2023 this week in New Orleans! Super excited to share our TRAILS graduate training pilot project with a #SchoolMentalHealth audience ✨ @natalierq.bsky.social