ACNP URM Near-Peer Mentorship Program
Applications for the 2025 URM Near-Peer Mentorship Program are now closed.
Deadline: June 14, 2024 at 5:00pm Central
Mentee Eligibility Requirements
- Applicant must be trainee/early career scientist
- Cannot have previously received an ACNP Travel Award
- Applicant must identify from historically excluded groups as defined by ACNP.
ACNP defines historically excluded groups as Blacks or African Americans, Hispanics or Latinos, American Indians or Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders, individuals who identify as LGBTQIA2S+, individuals with a disability, and individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds as defined by the NIH.
ACNP will make every effort to keep this information private; however, cannot guarantee this information would not be unintentionally released within the College through the course of inclusion efforts.
Mentor Eligibility Requirements
- ACNP Associate Members, Members, and Fellows are eligible.
The ACNP URM Near-Peer Mentorship Program is the College’s newest initiative to promote and sustain diversity in the ACNP pipeline. This program is designed to provide mentorship from ACNP member mentors to scientists who identify from historically excluded groups who plan to enter or are early career scientists in research fields in and adjacent to neuropsychopharmacology. The program provides education on topics such as career skills, goal setting, negotiating, time management, career life balance, and culturally responsive mentorship relationships. This is an intensive multi-year program that includes monthly one-on-one virtual mentoring, monthly training workshops, onsite orientation at the 2024 Annual Meeting, and an in-person half-day mentoring program just prior to the January 2026 ACNP Annual Meeting.
The program will be managed by the ACNP URM Mentoring Task Force and the College, utilizing materials from the Center for the Improvement for Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER). The primary goal of the program is to optimize mentoring relationships by providing mentors and mentees with an intellectual framework for effective mentoring relationships, an opportunity to experiment with various methods, incorporating culturally aware mentoring, and a forum in which to solve mentor/mentee dilemmas with the help of their peers to improve the mentorship skills of ACNP Members and future awardees and members of the College.
If you are interested in learning more about the program or in applying, either as a mentee or a mentor, please contact the ACNP Executive Office (acnp@acnp.org) or visit the URM Near-Peer Mentorship Program poster during the poster sessions at the ACNP Annual Meeting.
Congratulations to the 2025 URM Near-Peer Mentorship Cohort!
URM Near-Peer Program Statistics – Supported by the URM Mentoring Task Force
