The CPNP Foundation envisions a world in which individuals with psychiatric and neurologic disorders receive optimal treatment, live free of stigma, and achieve their full potential. As supporters of the CPNP Foundation, we know you live this same mantra day after day as you work to ensure patients receive the most effective, safe and compassionate care possible.
As we enter our 2016 year-end campaign, the CPNP Foundation is asking you to extend your impact as a psychiatric pharmacist and make a generous donation to support the work we do to ensure individuals with psychiatric and neurologic disorders receive optimal treatment, live free of stigma, and achieve their full potential.
Here is just a sampling of the impactful work your donation supports:
- Through its Defining the Future Grant Program, the Foundation has once again supported grants to four individuals researching ways to understand and dispel stigma associated with mental disorders and help patients receive optimal treatment through medication therapy management. Their findings will be presented at the Annual Meeting in April 2017.
- To further the understanding of stigma and social distancing among community pharmacists as a beginning point to make inroads to decrease stigma among all healthcare providers, the Foundation has collaborated with Dr. Vincent Giannetti and colleagues at the Duquesne University Mylan School of Pharmacy to explore community pharmacists’ knowledge of and attitudes toward mental illness and the services they provide. Through this project, barriers to counseling patients and pharmacists’ beliefs about patients with mental illness have been evaluated via a comprehensive survey instrument completed by a sample of community pharmacists nationally. The survey has been analyzed and up to two manuscripts are moving forward for publication submission. It is anticipated these results will guide further work by the Foundation in efforts to educate and support our colleagues in the retail sector as our mission focuses not only on the needs of individuals living with psychiatric and neurologic disorders and their families, but also health professionals in general practice settings.
- The Foundation will once again award twenty student grants to attend CPNP 2017 in Phoenix. We have seen a large upsurge in student chapters on college campuses to over 25 chapters as well as student participation at our Annual Meeting. I am pleased that we are able to “pay it forward” for up and coming clinical pharmacy specialists.
- You will also notice in this newsletter that we have highlighted Legacy Partner Larry Ereshefsky. As you may recall, the Foundation established a bequest program where individuals have the opportunity to leave a legacy that support the Foundation after your lifetime. We encourage this as an additional conduit to make a bigger, more lasting impact.
As you can see, the Foundation has been busy working on its strategic goals, and board members participated in a strategic planning meeting this month. I look forward to working with the Board and our newly elected President-Elect Cindy Kirkwood on furthering our mission and vision. Can you imagine a world in which individuals with psychiatric and neurologic disorders receive optimal treatment, live free of stigma, and achieve their full potential? Your generous gift will get us closer to making this vision a reality. I am sincerely grateful for your continued support.
