The 2026 AACAP Marilyn B. Benoit, MD, Child Maltreatment Mentorship Award supports psychiatrists’ mentored projects to raise awareness of child welfare, foster care, and maltreatment prevention or intervention.
AACAP Mentorship Grants for Medical Students support medical students’ Annual Meeting attendance for mentorship, networking, and career exploration in child and adolescent psychiatry.
AACAP Pilot Research Award for Early Career Faculty and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows supports fellows and early faculty with pilot studies to launch careers in child and adolescent psychiatry research.
AACAP Pilot Research Award for Attention Disorders supports residents, fellows, and early career faculty with pilot studies of attentional dysfunction to build careers in child and adolescent psychiatry research.
AACAP Pilot Research Award for General Psychiatry Residents, supported by Industry Supporters funds residents’ pilot research in child and adolescent mental health to help launch research careers.
AACAP Summer Medical Student Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry supports medical students in mentored clinical or research training to explore careers in the specialty.