Volunteer Opportunities

Volunteer Opportunities

Diversity/Advocacy Committee

Current projects needing assistance:

  • Educate providers in various medical settings (emergency rooms, medical providers, primary care providers, OBGYNs, front line providers, PET team, police, CPS) about harm-themed OCD symptoms to reduce inaccurate diagnoses and potentially harmful treatment outcomes
  • Provide training resources to clinicians with an aim of increasing cultural sensitivity

Related Tasks/Roles:

  • Social media volunteers/advocates to connect ACBS OCD SIG to mental health organizations/influencers
  • Researcher to identify statistics re: missed diagnosis of OCD
  • Create a cheat sheet resource that could be offered on the website, different tiers, how to reach out to and connect with non-OCD providers
  • Generate listing of OCD-informed psychiatrists accepting insurance
  • Gather/produce resources to advocate for our clients and when collaborating with other medical providers
  • Gather/produce resources for understanding different levels of care and what will meet clients' specific needs
  • Increase advocacy and awareness at the IOCDF conference with other ethnic-minority clinician organizations

Additional Opportunities:

  • Contribute to blog posts
  • Peer consultation group participation and development
  • Training participation and development
  • Outreach and advocacy efforts
  • Resource development for new clinicians interested in learning more about OCD, ACT, and serving marginalized communities
  • Resource development for providers in various medical settings and parents
  • Collaborate with other committees and SIGs (e.g., International, DEI, Training, Research etc.)
  • Access to ACBS resources (e.g., training, conference information etc.)

Time commitment:

6-12months; attend approx. 4 virtual meetings/year
Contact person -  Annabella Hagen, azhagen@gmail.com

 

Research and Dissemination Committee
Current projects needing assistance:

  • Conduct meta-analysis/research review on ACT for OCD and related disorders
  • Update website with relevant research

Related Tasks/Roles:

  • Conduct literature reviews
  • Evaluate articles on website to determine which representative articles are missing
  • Communicate within OCD Sig, ACBS, and other organizations to recruit new committee members and survey research interests
  • Assess current status of ACT research (using Chambliss et al. (1998)/Tolin et al. (2015)/Society of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology criteria

Additional Opportunities:

  • Mentorship by committee chairs
  • Communication to lay community/professionals on research findings
  • Collaboration on manuscripts and professional presentations
  • Development/collaboration on research projects (e.g. process-based therapy)
  • Collaboration with other committees and SIGs (e.g. Clinical, Advocacy/Diversity)

Time commitment:

Minimum 1 semester; variable monthly time commitment depending on project
Contact person - Michelle Miller, mlm41@iu.edu  

 

Clinical Training Committee

Current projects needing assistance:

  • Create ACT for OCD training workshops
  • Update website with training resources for professionals
  • Develop self-assessment tool to guide clinicians to appropriate training opportunities

Related Tasks/Roles:

  • Contribute to training resource bank
  • Collect and create vignettes, role plays, exercises to understand what it is like to have OCD, other experiential exercises
  • Search for and review materials to include on website for trainees/professionals
  • Identify existing consultation groups for providers and/or develop group opportunities
  • Identify pre-existing trainings that are ACT consistent

Additional Opportunities:

  • Organize/participate in a reading group for professionals
  • Draft communications to professionals
  • Create recommended readings list with annotated bibliography for different skill levels
  • Collaborate with other committees and SIGs (e.g. Research, Advocacy/Diversity)

Time commitment:

6-12 months; variable monthly time commitment depending on project
Contact person - Kristin Fitch - dr.kfitch@gmail.com

 

Communications Committee & General Involvement

Current projects needing assistance:

  • Website development
  • Social media
  • Outreach/community building
  • Develop and maintain listserv

Related Tasks/Roles

  • Identify and/or review general resources for website (e.g., books, apps, podcasts, videos, blogs, websites, workshops, webinars, etc. for the public and professionals)
  • Develop social media accounts/presence for general public and/or groups for professionals
  • Compile directory of members for dissemination within the SIG Outreach to other organizations, clinics, universities, etc. to recruit SIG members
  • Create listserv posts to prompt discussion and share resources

Additional Opportunities

  • SIG leadership positions

Time commitment

3-12 months; variable depending on project
Contact person - Kristin Fitch, dr.kfitch@gmail.com
 

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