The REACH Program (Recognizing and Eliminating Disparities in Addiction through Culturally Informed Healthcare) was an initiative designed to supplement the education of medical students, residents, fellows, and allied health professional trainees in order to facilitate improvements in health outcomes for substance use disorder patients in underrepresented populations.
The Yale Department of Psychiatry provides numerous educational programs in areas like computational psychiatry, legislative advocacy, health disparaties, and training in research methods.
REACH Yale Global Mental Health Program Yale Psychiatry’s Global Mental Health Program aims to increase awareness of global mental health issues and social disparities while developing tools to address associated challenges both at home and abroad.
GROW Initiative Beginning with psychiatry and behavioral health, GROW’s mission is to foster and sustain educational and clinical excellence regarding culture and diversity.
The HAPPINESS Project The Health Action for Psychiatric Problems In Nigeria including Epilepsy and SubstanceS HAPPINESS Project is focused on increasing access to evidence-based treatments for mental, neurological and substance use disorders in Nigeria by adapting the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) Intervention Guide in primary care settings.
Clinician Scientist Training Program The Clinician Scientist Training Program (CSTP) has been providing intensive training in research methods in clinical and preclinical investigations on drug abuse.
Legislative Advocacy Program (LEAD) LEAD is designed to equip Yale School of Medicine resident and fellow trainees with the advocacy skills and knowledge necessary to impact state-level legislative change. Advocacy skills and knowledge acquired at LEAD can readily be applied in other local, state, and federal legislative systems.
MAPs: Methods And Primers for Computational Psychiatry and Neuroeconomics This seminar series aims to lower such barriers by providing information about WHY and HOW to use computational psychiatry approaches.
SJHE Courses The SJHE Courses exist within the Yale Department of Psychiatry Residency Program to teach the next generation of psychiatrists how to discern and dismantle mental health inequities within current healthcare systems and personal practice.