Ethnicity, Race, and Cultural Affairs Portfolio

Through its publications, special projects, grantsmanship and other efforts, the Ethnicity, Race, and Cultural Affairs Portfolio (ERCA) seeks to increase the scientific understanding of how both culture pertains to psychology, and how ethnicity influences behavior. ERCA also: - Promotes recruitment, retention and training opportunities for ethnic minorities in psychology. - Works to increase and enhance the delivery of appropriate psychological services to ethnic minority communities and encourages all psychologists to develop some minimal level of multicultural competence. - Seeks to promote both greater inclusion of ethnic minorities in organized psychology, and development of public policies that support the concerns of ethnic minority psychologists and their communities.