Department of Psychiatry

Develop an approach/metric for formally recognizing DEI service/activity in faculty evaluations

New action item: A question will be added to the annual review form and used to help our faculty build, as a living document, their DEI self-reflective statement that is now a requirement of their CV

Person/Dept Responsible: Meltzer-Brody; Girdler

Establish and maintain DEI Task Force Working Groups charged with developing, refining, and operationalizing DEI initiatives over time, meeting monthly

6 Working Groups have held 3 monthly meetings each, as of Jan 25, 2021; selected chairs/co-chairs;

1. Recruitment, Retention, & Support
2. Social Media, Website & Publicity
3. DEI Education & Training
4. DEI Ethics & Legislation
5. Patient Engagement & Community Outreach
6. Metrics & Evaluation

Person/Dept Responsible: Brownley/Workgroup chairs

Expand DEI Task Force Working Groups to include as-of-yet “missing” stakeholders, e.g. Nursing, Basic science faculty and staff, Support staff (front desk, custodial, etc), and Graduate students/postdocs/Psych interns

Added 7 new members representing:

1. Medical Assistants
2. Research Staff & Managers
3. Social Work Practitioners
4. Administrative Assistants
5. Faculty

Person/Dept Responsible: Brownley/Workgroup chairs

Establish DEI advisory panel consisting of DEI Working Group leaders (1/group), meeting with the DEI Director quarterly

Kick-off meeting scheduled

Person/Dept Responsible: Brownley

Design and implement strategies to increase the recruitment and selection of trainees, from underrepresented minority groups and their success.

Work groups chairs present draft strategies to Director by 02/30/21

Director submits report to Department chair by 03/15/21

Person/Dept Responsible: Workgroup chairs, Brownley, Meltzer-Brody

Improve cross-cultural interaction/ engagement within the department

Organize meet-up groups based on social interests (e.g., cooking, hiking, travel) and similar per input from Social Working Group, etc. Feature URM colleagues’ “get to know me/my family/my country of origin”

New action item: Develop and implement department-wide “Diversity Through Lived Experience” Digital Media Campaign to promote diversity within the department, share our attitudes toward fighting for equality, and highlight the personal diversity within our department (focus on individual life stories, what DEI means on a personal level, what each has done to contribute to DEI)

Person/Dept Responsible: Meltzer-Brody, Brownley, Working Groups, Chief residents

Improve cultural humility and cultural competency through sponsorship and coordination of DEI trainings and learning opportunities, both required and optional, such as: Bias 101, REI Groundwater, and Grand rounds that a) focus on DEI clinical and research topics and b) feature presenters from URM groups

REI Groundwater completed 08/12 and 08/19
Schedule 2^nd Groundwater session 2020
GR speakers (Goldenberg, race in medicine, 09/09/20; Lu, cultural competency, 09/30/20)
Add training opportunity schedule to Mental Health Matters newsletter

New action items:

• Diversity Leadership Retreat – Feb ‘21
• REI full 2-day training, March ‘21
• BIAS 101 scheduled, April ’21

Person/Dept Responsible: Meltzer-Brody, Brownley, WG, Chief residents