Psychiatric Services Achievement Awards 2025

Submission Deadline: July 19th, 2024

Only APA members may submit applications.

Please note that a complete submission must include:

This completed online form
Program description

Program eligibility criteria:

Programs based in a U.S. or Canadian school, clinic, hospital, or community
Programs that have made a significant contribution to the mental health field and provide an innovative model for others
- Can provide unique human resource development, prevention, or administrative models that improve clinical care

This is an online form and all information you enter in the application will be sent to us electronically. Please complete all fields. You can save this form and retrieve for editing if it has not been submitted. Be sure to read over your application, make any corrections and print a copy for your records before it is submitted.

For help with this form or questions, please email egershenson@psych.org.

1. Applying Program Name: *This question is required.

2. Applicant Name: *This question is required.

3. Applicant APA ID: *This question is required.

4. This program became fully operational on: *This question is required. This question requires a valid date format of MM/DD/YYYY.

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5. Mailing address of the program: *This question is required.

6. Country: *This question is required.

7. Program Director (name, credentials): *This question is required.

8. Description of Program (type of facility, size, patient population, health impact, etc): *This question is required.

9. Share how this program has significantly contributed to the field of mental health (100 words or less): *This question is required.

10. How has this program demonstrated innovation? (100 words or less): *This question is required.

11. Share how this program has overcome obstacles or extended resources (100 words or less): *This question is required.

12. How does this program demonstrate effectiveness and focus on quality improvement through use of quality assurance measures, quality improvement methods, UR, outcome measures, etc?: *This question is required.

13. Describe how this program exemplifies effective use of psychiatrist, peer specialist and other staff, as well as involvement of consumer and/or family: *This question is required.

14. Please attach or email egershenson@psych.org any additional background materials you would like the award selection committee to review (additional documentation is highly encouraged):

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