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2006 Multicultural Diversity Awards
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Department of Clinical Psychology Diversity Award
Meghan Duff, PsyD, was awarded the 2006 Department of Clinical Psychology Diversity Award for her dissertation, “Clinician multicultural competencies and their interest in multicultural training and supervision: An evaluation of a community mental health center.” Meghan’s dissertation was an evaluation of an agency clinicians’ multicultural competence and their interest in multicultural training.
As a predoctoral intern, Meghan developed for this agency the Multicultural Training and Supervision Survey, which was used in the agency’s multicultural program evaluation. The data from this project became Meghan’s dissertation study. Drs. Roger Peterson and Gargi Roysircar nominated Meghan for the department’s Diversity Award.
In his letter of nomination, Dr. Peterson wrote, “When on predoctoral internship with a Portland, Oregon community mental health agency, Meghan became involved with Russian Oregon Social Services, and provided home-based ESL service for Russian-speaking immigrant and refugee families. She also has been a member of the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization’s (IRCO) Russian-speaking mental health provider group, which meets to continually assess the mental health needs of the local Russian-speaking community and to work to provide the best service.
Meghan has been a consistent part of the Cultural Action Team (CAT) at the community mental health center at which she was an intern and where she is currently doing her postdoctoral work. CAT advises organizational planning to promote diversity and culturally responsive services, provides agency training on diversity issues, and evaluates the agency’s culturally responsive services.
During her time at Antioch New England, Meghan won the Schweitzer Fellowship for community service work. Her project for the New Hampshire/Vermont Schweitzer Fellowship (2003-2004) was a media literacy program for local middle school youth at a Boys and Girls Club. The media literacy program used their favorite music as a means of addressing social issues such as racism and sexism.
As a Schweitzer fellow, Meghan was also asked to help improve the Boys and Girls Club’s relationship with the local business community. Under her leaderships, the children created a downtown scavenger hunt in which the local youth visited downtown businesses (over 70) to collect answers to questions about health, local history, and how businesses support the local community. Meghan’s interest in diversity goes back many years.”
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