Committee on Early Career Psychologist Applauds Divisions Support of Early Career Leadership!!!
The Committee on Early Career Psychologists (CECP) has been working on assisting divisions in increasing early career psychologist representation on their boards and we want to recognize those divisions that have appointed an early career representative to the Early Career Psychologist Network (ECPN). Those divisions are: 2, 5, 9, 13, 14, 17, 20, 21, 24, 36, 37, 39, 40, 42, 44, 50, 52 and 55. The CECP applauds these divisions on their support of early career psychologists in governance. As a reminder, the ECPN is a group of division and state early career leaders appointed by their respective executive committees to allow them a forum to discuss priorities and programming ideas, share strategies to increase recruitment, retention, and involvement of early career psychologists in professional associations, provide feedback on CECP initiatives and activities, foster collaboration between APA Divisions and State, Provincial and Territorial Psychological Associations (SPTAs)and disseminate information about opportunities and resources for early career psychologists.
The CECP recognizes that appointing a new member to your executive committee is sometimes a difficult task that may requires bylaws changes or voting on by membership. However, appointing a representative to the ECPN is not a difficult task. Although we would prefer that the representative is a voting member of your committee this can be built over time. There are a lot of divisions participating in addressing the specific needs of early career psychologists and the CECP would be happy to help you and your division with this. It has been determined that early career psychologists make up 30% of APA membership so this is a group that divisions need to pay attention to. Please contact us via Email for questions about increasing the leadership of early careers in your division or to join to ECPN.
Additionally, the early career section of APA’s website has become a great resource for the early career members in your division. We have now added several resources that are poignant to early career psychologists. On our site you can find information on licensure and advocating for licensure change, financial planning, life/career balance, and networking and soon to include much more. Most resources are available for download straight from the website. Please visit us at www.apa.org/earlycareer/ and forward this website to your division members.
As always the CECP welcomes your concerns, questions, suggestions and ideas. We are happy to work with any division on issues related to early career psychologists. Please keep this in mind when submitting proposals for APA convention and we look forward to hearing from you!
2007 Division Leadership Conference
The Committee on Division / APA Relations (CODAPAR), is proud to announce that the 2007 Division Leadership Conference will be held January 19-21, at the Capital Hilton Hotel in Washington D.C.
During this weekend, participants will (a) learn the nuts and bolts of leading their division, (b) be encouraged to engage in long-range and strategic planning for their presidential year, and (c) be provided with opportunities to foster interdivisional collaborative ventures.
The conference begins with a Welcome Reception at 6:00 P.M. on Friday, January 19. Following the reception, there will be a presentation on “Membership Trends and Divisions,” which is intended to spark interesting discussions during the Welcome Dinner and set the tone for this leadership training weekend.
The conference officially opens on Saturday, January 20 at 8:30 A.M. with the Welcome Address from APA President, Sharon Stephens Brehm, PhD. Throughout the day there will be presentations on APA Directorates and their functions, the nuts and bolts of APA, governance issues, as well as a special membership recruitment workshop and a ‘best practices’ plenary that will tie all this important information together.
Early Sunday morning, members of APA’s media and legal staff will be available for one-on-one consultations. Sunday morning’s plenary session will be an in-depth look at media and legal responsibilities. Later in the morning, APA Chief Executive Officer, Norman B. Anderson, PhD, will present an update on current APA activities, and the newly elected APA President-Elect will discuss his or her presidential initiatives for 2008. Following these presentations will be a Town Hall Meeting for participants to ask questions and interact with the C.E.O. and President-Elect. The DLC will conclude at approximately 11:30 A.M.
We strongly encourage divisions to send at least one representative to the 2007 DLC. It will be a weekend of information sharing and knowledge gathering and will provide opportunities tp build relationships with other division leaders.
For more information, please contact Troy Booker in Division Services.
Mark Your Calendars for the Divisional Annual Reports
Attention Division Presidents – the 2006 Division Annual Reports are will be due February 1, 2007. Mailed packages will include instructions, guidelines and the forms for you to fill out. If you have any questions, please contact Troy Booker in Division Services.
>Now is the Time to VOTE
Apportionment Ballot to determine the 2008 Council of Representatives were mailed to all voting members of the Association on November 1. The 45-day election period will close on December 18. Notify your division members via email, newsletters articles and listservs that by casting their 10 apportionment votes, they can significantly impact the APA governance structure.
For questions or more information, contact the Election Office.
2006 CODAPAR Members
Chana K. Akins, PhD (01/06-12/08)
University of Kentucky
Department of Psychology
219 Kastle Hall
Lexington, KY 40506-0001
Phone: (+1/859) 257-1103
Fax: (+1/859) 323-1979
Divisions: 6, 7, 28, 38, 45, 48, 50 and 53
Wayne J. Camara, PhD (01/05-12/07)
The College Board
45 Columbus Avenue
New York, NY 10023
Phone: (+1/212) 713-8069
Fax: (+1/212) 649-8427
Divisions: 5, 12, 14, 18, 19, 20, 24, 32 and 41
Kate F. Hays, PhD (01/05-12/07)
The Performing Edge
730 Yonge Street
Suite 226
Toronto, ON M4Y 2B7
CANADA
Phone: (+1/416) 961-0487
Fax: (+1/416) 599-8287
Division: 10, 17, 29, 30, 31, 39, 42, 47 and 51
Richard S. Velayo, PhD (06/05-12/06)
Pace University
Psychology Department
41 Park Row
Room 1324
New York, NY 10038
Phone: (+1/212) 346-1506
Fax: (+1/212) 346-1618
Divisions: 3, 23, 26, 27, 37, 40, 43, 52, and 54
Frank C. Worrell, PhD, Chair, (1/04-12/06)
Graduate School of Education
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1670
Phone: (+1/510) 643-4891
Fax: (+1/510) 642-3555
Divisions: 1, 13, 15, 16, 21, 25, 33, 34 and 36
Janice D. Yoder, PhD (01/06-12/08)
University of Akron
Department of Psychology
Akron, OH 44325-4301
Phone: (+1/330) 972-8371
Fax: (+1/330) 972-5174
Divisions: 2, 8, 9, 22, 35, 44, 46, 49 and 55
Division Services Staff
Troy Booker, Division Services Officer
Keith Cooke, Division Services Manager
Sarah Jordan, Director, Divisions Services
Micheline Meyers, Division Services Coordinator
Julian Slaughter, Division Services Associate
2007 Deadlines for Articles for the APA/Division Dialogue
Please submit copy on diskette or via email to Troy Booker.
January/February: December 18, 2006
March/April: February 26, 2007
May/June: April 23, 2007
July/August: June 25, 2007
September/October: August 27, 2007
November/December: October 22, 2007
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