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Chyrell Bellamy, PhD, MSW, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, and Ayana Jordan, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, have been awarded a National Institutes of Health grant for their research "Culturally-responsive community-driven substance use recovery for Black and Latinx populations."

The Connecticut Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (CSPP) will sponsor the virtual program “Black Lives, in Mind: Partners in Liberation and Recovery: The Black Church and Mental Health Care” from 9:30 to 11:00 am October 16, 2021.

Yale Department of Psychiatry faculty and affiliates contributed to an article in Social Work in Mental Health about New Haven-based Musical Intervention and its collaboration with the Connecticut Mental Health Center, the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, and other Yale programs. Chyrell Bellamy, PhD, MSW, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, was senior author.

Dr. Andrea Mendiola, a psychiatrist at the Hispanic Clinic of Connecticut Mental Health Center, reflects on providing mental health care to Spanish-speaking clients during the pandemic.

Michael Rowe, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, was among the people who attended a news conference August 2 when New Haven's mayor announced the formation of a new Department of Community Resilience to strengthen the fight against violence in the city. Rowe is co-director of the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health.

The Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH) of the Connecticut Mental Health Center announces that as of July 1, the program will be jointly led by Larry Davidson, PhD, and Chyrell Bellamy, PhD, MSW.

Comedian Ronny Chieng interviews James Kimmel, Jr. about grievance and revenge addiction in America

Miraj Desai, PhD, Instructor in Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, was selected by the American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship Program to be its featured fellow in late May.

Chyrell Bellamy, PhD, MSW, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, is first author of a paper in Social Work in Mental Health that describes the Imani Breakthrough Recovery Program, a faith-based recovery initiative that takes place in churches and assists people recovering from opioid use/abuse and other drug or alcohol problems.