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Objectives: This presentation will focus on recent events and social factors that call for urgent changes in health care that will impact child and adolescent psychiatry Changing racial and ethnic demographics in the United States, increased recognition of racism and discrimination highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic, and calls for action sparked by the very public murder of George Floyd and others, point to an urgent need for health care leaders to focus on diverse representation in medicine The goals of this presentation are to address barriers and facilitators for recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce in academic child and adolescent psychiatry programs and to describe effective methods for improving recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority trainees and faculty Methods: Recent relevant findings and insights from academic institutions and industries describing effective methods for addressing diversity and inclusion, and creating a diverse workplace that will attract the next generation of child and adolescent psychiatry leaders, will be discussed Examples of strategies for recognizing bias and addressing structural racism, barriers, and facilitators to recruitment and retention will be reviewed Results: Organizations and programs that develop focused strategies for increasing diversity have had some success A genuine commitment to recruit and develop diverse leaders, recognition of the benefits of workforce diversity, intentional and focused strategies for creating an inclusive environment, and recognition of structures that foster racism within institutions are required for developing successful strategies Conclusions: Approaches used to address racism and discrimination in child and adolescent psychiatry can be effective, only when combined with a strategy to achieve well-described and measurable objectives Implementation of successful strategies will require changes in current recruitment practices It will be imperative for child and adolescent psychiatry programs to respond to the shifting demographics of children and families in the United States by diversifying the leadership structures in their own programs, in order to recruit and retain the diverse workforce that will be needed to lead child and adolescent psychiatry into the future AC, ETHN, SP
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