At Brown Psychiatry and Human Behavior, we expect our learning environments to be safe, inclusive, and respectful spaces for all staff, faculty, and trainees. We also see this moment as an important tipping point at which we, as a department comprised of mental health professionals, must challenge ourselves and our systems to change.

Over the last two years, the department has shifted to an agenda of advocacy, activism, and anti-racism. We acknowledge that as individuals, health care providers, and members of this community, we must critically evaluate the institutional structures of our workplace and academic department, even when it makes us uncomfortable. We will hold faculty accountable for addressing not only diversity and inclusion but structural racism as they teach and supervise our trainees to provide care for the patients they serve. And we will implement measurable policies and practices that foster diversity, equity, and inclusion and promote anti-racism within the department's education, research, and clinical care settings and the community at large.