Editors' Note: Third Annual Report Regarding JAACAP's Antiracist Journey.

In 2020, we wrote to you of our dedication and vision for JAACAP "to be antiracist at every level."1 Over the last 3 years, we have pursued initiatives "to reshape the Journal to pursue this vision."2,3 In this article, we provide an update on these goals and initiatives (Figure 1). With the launching of our new open access journal, JAACAP Open,4 in late 2022, we now extend these initiatives to both scientific journals in the JAACAP family and aspire to be a leader among mental health journals in our intentional pursuit of antiracist policies and practices.

Study Registration: Encouraging the Practice of Hypothetical-Deductive Research in the Journal Revisited.

Five years ago, we wrote to you regarding our launching a new initiative for JAACAP: study registration.1 As we noted then, "study registration divides the peer review process into two stages. The first stage, preregistration, occurs at the time that the study is being planned, whereas the second occurs after the study is completed." To preregister their study, authors submit a manuscript consisting of the introduction and method sections for their study, along with a study synopsis, for peer review. If the study preregistration is approved after this initial peer review, the Journal will issue an in-principle acceptance to the authors, and the study synopsis will be published in JAACAP as a registered study protocol. When the study is completed, the authors will submit a complete manuscript, using the introduction and method sections that have already been reviewed and accepted (with an updated literature review) as well as their new results and discussion sections. This complete manuscript will undergo a second peer review focused on how consistent the manuscript is with the study's preregistration. If the paper is then accepted, it will be published as a Registered Report.1 We are pleased to report that with this issue of the Journal we have now published 2 such research articles, each demonstrating the strengths of this process.

Editors' Note: Second Annual Report Regarding JAACAP's Antiracist Journey.

In 2020, we wrote to you of our dedication and vision for this Journal "to be antiracist at every level," outlining the following 6 initiatives "to reshape the Journal to pursue this vision:" (1) Issuing a Call for Papers on racism and its impacts on child development and children's mental health; (2) updating our Guide for Authors to emphasize that we will evaluate articles submitted to the Journal on whether their study designs are inclusive and their discussions consider and address human diversity and structural determinants of health in the context of their research questions and hypotheses; (3) assembling a special collection of Journal articles on bias, bigotry, discrimination, racism, and mental health inequities; (4) accelerating our efforts to make our Editorial Board inclusive and representative of our community of scientists and practitioners as well as the communities we serve; (5) engaging in continuing education and dialogue as an Editorial Board that will include antiracism training and praxis; and (6) critically examining "our editorial and peer review process to ensure it is antiracist."1 In this Editors' Note, we write to update you on our progress, including a new initiative we started in the past year: (7) a new option for authors to add a statement to their manuscripts regarding the inclusion and diversity initiatives and practices they employed in pursuing their work. With the launch this year of JAACAP Open, the Academy's new open access publication and the newest member of the JAACAP family of journals, we have expanded opportunities to pursue these efforts, and look forward to sharing more about JAACAP Open in future updates.

JAACAP's Role in Advancing the Science of Pediatric Mental Health and Promoting the Care of Youth and Families During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

As we pen these words, the COVID-19 pandemic is having profound impacts on human society. Based on decades of research, we know that the accompanying illness,1 death,2 social isolation,3,4 and malnutrition5 will have deep and lasting impacts on our children and adolescents, their families, and the communities in which they develop. The pandemic is exposing, with terrible clarity, the disparities in human society-racism,6 poverty,7,8 domestic violence,9,10 and child maltreatment and neglect11-and tragically will likely amplify the negative impacts that each has on child development and mental health.

Study Registration: Encouraging the Practice of Hypothetical-Deductive Research in the Journal.

Earlier this year, we shared with you our commitment to supporting the dissemination of research that is well designed, carefully conducted, and properly interpreted, and our belief that authors, reviewers, editors, publishers, and readers should jointly strive to ensure the integrity of the science that we publish.1 Toward this end, we are pleased to announce a new submission type beginning in 2019: Registered Reports.