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Under the leadership of Aaron Krasner, M.D., ASAP's President 2023-2024, ASAP created a transformational opportunity within the field of Adolescent and Young Adult Psychiatry. Our goal through this educational initiative is to create a vibrant hub for expertise capable of incisively responding to the youth mental health epidemic. Our Goal is to develop a specialized set of training opportunities for psychiatrists, with a separate set of opportunities for primary care providers working with teens and young adults.
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This initiative consists of two components completed sequentially:​
1. Establishment of the American Institute for Adolescent Psychiatry (AIAP), a non-profit organization separate from ASAP whose sole purpose is to develop research and training in Adolescent & Young Adult Psychiatry. AIAP will solicit grant and philanthropic funding to support this goal and was established in July, 2024.
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2. Curriculum Development. ASAP has assembled an assortment of Subject Matter Experts (SME's) to work with AIAP and other partners to develop an on-demand set of online programs to provide needed training to psychiatrists and separate ones more specific for primary care providers. ASAP expects to launch these curricula in 2025.
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