Div. 37 honors Sen. Dodd

Div. 37 (Child, Youth and Family Services) and its Section on Child Maltreatment awarded Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) with the division's Lifetime Advocacy Award for his legislative work benefiting children and families.

Dodd has worked on numerous issues related to child abuse and neglect prevention, access to safe and affordable child care, health care for uninsured children, after-school programs and expanding and improving Head Start.

The division gives its Lifetime Advocacy Award to people who have made a consistent and sizeable impact on children and families.

Div. 42 launches new marketing course

This fall, the Div. 42 (Independent Practice) Marketing and Public Education Committee will launch a new course, "Repositioning Your Practice for the Future."

The three-session course covers intermediate and advanced topics in marketing, including marketing through delivery of quality care, media and community-based marketing initiatives, marketing segmentation and advanced ethical topics in marketing of psychological services.

The course aims to help psychologists position their practice to compete in future health-care markets.

As a special introductory offer, the division will offer the course free in the fall to current division members and to any psychologists who signed up to become division members at APA's 2005 Annual Convention in Washington, D.C.

For more information, visit www.division42.org.

Apply for Div. 43 student poster award

Div. 43 (Family) is sponsoring a student poster competition for the best poster presentation related to family psychology. The winning student will receive $250 and have their presentation published in the division's journal, the Family Psychologist.

Students who have had posters accepted for presentation at APA's 2006 Annual Convention in New Orleans, Aug. 10–13, and whose posters are on topics directly involving family psychology, are eligible for the competition.

Members of the division's research committee will judge the posters and will notify the winner prior to APA's 2006 Annual Convention. The award will be presented at the division president's reception at the convention.

To apply, send a PowerPoint version of the poster to Kristina Gordon, PhD. The deadline to apply is Aug. 1, 2006.

--Z. STAMBOR