AAPA AAPA APF Okura Fellowship
AAPA APF Okura Fellowship
AAPA APF Okura Mental Health Leadership Foundation Fellowship

The AAPA-APF Okura Mental Health Leadership Foundation Fellowship provides grants to support psychology’s efforts to benefit the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community through research, training, and service/practice.  The grant is to enable better understanding, better treatment, better services and better training, all essential aspects to a healthy, robust, and high achieving AAPI population.

The $20,000 grant will rotate each year among these three areas.
  • 2009: Fellowship to support research that will benefit the AAPI Community.
  • 2010: Fellowship to support training initiatives that will benefit the AAPI Community.
  • 2011: Fellowship to support service and practice initiatives that will benefit the AAPI Community.
To be eligible for the fellowship, applicants must be members of AAPA. Additional eligibility criteria are described in the RFP specific for each year's Fellowship.

Support for this program has been provided by the Okura Mental Health Leadership Foundation and is administered by the American Psychological Foundation.


For Submission Information and additional requirements: http://www.apa.org/apf/funding/okura-fellow.asp


Questions about this program should be directed to Kim Rowsome, Program Officer, at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .