The Academy of Minority Identity Development and Advocacy (AMIDA)
AMIDA was formed in 2015 to bring awareness to unvoiced issues and empower students to incite change-the two tenets of advocacy (APA, 2011). The vision of Regent University, "Christian Leadership to Change the World," exemplifies AMIDA members' passion as practitioners, who are Christian, who have been admonished to rebuild, restore, and renew all that is broken.
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AMIDA embodies an open and secure forum to teach, train, challenge, and give voice to the present and future experiences of minority psychologist in training. Using the theory of intersectionality as a foundation, initial research examined the influence of different identity constructs on personal and professional development in terms of mentoring, supervision, and mobility in the field of psychology. Research broadened to include the significant gaps that existed regarding minority and allyship identity development, racial battle fatigue, minority student retention, and satisfaction, LGBTQ juveniles' experience of the justice system, bicultural/double minority status, the impact of color blindness on race, and culturally competent training for law enforcement officers. These various facets are highlighted and explored through scholarly presentations at annual national and local conferences.
Foundational Scripture
The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is upon me, for the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to comfort the brokenhearted and to proclaim that captives will be released and prisoners will be freed. He has sent me to tell those who mourn that the time of the Lord's favor has come, and with it, the day of God's anger against their enemies. Isaiah 61:1-2, New Living Translation
Multicultural Clinic (MCC)
The Multicultural Clinic offers peer supervision to students in the second, third, and fourth years of the program desiring more focused training on working with intersectionality, diversity variables, biases, and prejudices through the lens of identity development and cultural humility. Peer supervisors are students who have either previously worked as TAs for the PsyD Multicultural Course, presented on culturally-relevant presentations under AMIDA, and/or have demonstrated inquisitive cultural aptitude through the APA competency benchmark of reflective self-practice.
ABPsi
The Association of Black Psychologist
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