Dissemination, Implementation, and Community Engagement Committee

Committee Year 2024-2025 (Nominations are accepted annually)

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Committee Members:

• Chair: Davielle “Davi” Lakind, Ph.D., Mercer University
• Kimberly Becker, Ph.D., University of South Carolina
• Debbie Innes-Gomberg, Ph.D., LA County Department of Mental Health
• Erum Nadeem, Ph.D., Rutgers University
• Brad Nakamura, Ph.D., University of Hawaii at Manoa
• Emily Treichler, Ph.D., VA San Diego MIRECC/University of California, San Diego
• Jerome Yoman, Ph.D., ABPP, Life Skills Resource, LLC

Committee Purpose

Th DICEC is responsible for identifying goals and considering how best to coordinate activities, people, and resources to promote dissemination, implementation, and engagement. We take these actions to advance ABCT’s mission as a “multidisciplinary” organization promoting the “global application” of evidence-based behavioral health interventions.

Responsibilities of the committee are broadly defined as promoting ABCT activities that (1) foster an inclusive environment for engagement with diverse communities, industries, and professional backgrounds to collaborate in the service of ABCT’s mission, and (2) foster members’ collective expertise in dissemination and implementation, scaling, technology, global health, public health, and other topics relevant to the social impact of cognitive behavioral science.

These activities include coordinating and executing ABCT’s Champions Program to recognize community partners who further ABCT’s mission. In addition to developing standalone initiatives or activities, this committee will necessarily interact in an advisory capacity with the Board of Directors, Special Interest Groups, and many of the committees responsible for ABCT functions, including awards and recognition, convention (e.g., program, local arrangements), continuing education, and membership.

Benchmark 2024-2025

• Recruit and onboard new committee members.
• Refine committee policies and procedures, including policies about membership cycles, transition plans, roles, attendance, and decision-making processes.
• Develop advisory committee comprised of past DICEC members and Champions (i.e., recipients of the Champions Award).
• Increase communication and collaboration with ABCT staff, board of directors, SIGs, and other committees.
• Disseminate findings of analyses of 2024 convention submissions related to endorsement of community engagement.
• Pilot scoring procedures for assessing community engagement within convention submissions.
• Promote formalized inclusion of community engagement scoring into convention submissions.
• Update and administer the Champions Award program.