Division 42 2005 Mid-Winter Board Meeting Agenda

Draft (12/11/04)

Plans for the Mid-Winter Executive Committee and Board Meetings:

        EC meeting Friday, January 28^th, 6-9pm in Room 1929. Dinner served.

        Board meeting Saturday, January 29^th, 9am-5pm. Breakfast (8am) and lunch served.

                                Sunday, January 30^th, 8:30am-11:00am. Breakfast available 7:45am.

                                Social Hour, Saturday, January 29^th, 5:30pm-7:00pm. To invite the

                                Boards of other divisions there and APA Board members. Dinner on

                                your own.

        NMCS: Thursday, January 27^th and Friday, January 28^th. As of today 12 Board

        Members are attending as well as several other Division 42 members. Additional

        rsvp’s are expected.

        Membership recruitment activities are planned for the NMCS. Specific Board

        members will serve as liaisons to other divisions present. Each Board member is

        requested to carry around and distribute membership applications throughout the

        NMCS.

  

Review of Plans/Agenda for Board Meeting:

President Barnett:

        Call to order, welcome, thanks, introductions, accept minutes, consent agenda.

        Consent agenda to include all appointments and e-mail election results. They must

        be validated by an in-person vote of the Board.

        Anything else to be on the consent agenda?

        President’s goals/themes for the year:

1)  Psychology as a business. Helping independent practitioners to be successful. Giving them the tools they need for success in practice.

2)  Diversity; in all its forms as relevant to membership in the Division,

leadership in the Division, training independent practitioners for

outreach and providing effective services to those of diverse backgrounds.

Outreach to Divisions 44 and 45 along with interdivisional collaboration to

achieve the above.

3)  Students/Early Career Psychologists; meeting the needs of students and early career psychologists in independent practice to include training, membership services that help them to advance in their careers, creating a professional identity that includes active membership in Division 42.

4)  Advancing the independent practice of psychology. Activities by Division 42 as well as collaboration with, and coordination of activities, with other divisions and other organizations committed to advancing independent practice.

         Review the Updated Priorities Report (see other document attached). The original

         document was developed by the priorities task force (Jean Carter, Mike Murphy,

         Bonnie Markham, and Jeff Barnett) in conjunction with the Division’s five-year

         review three years ago. Jean Carter and Jeff Barnett have now updated it to include

         all of the Division’s ongoing activities. Review of this document provides an

         update on the health and functioning of the Division and lays the groundwork for

         planning the next five-year review in 2006.

         In Touch With 42

         (http://www.division42.org/MembersArea/inTouch/CurrentInTouch.htm ), OPA

         article (see In Touch With 42 #4), plans for review in 2006, report on Education

         Leadership Conference (Cynthia Sturm). Consider for discussion Division 42’s role

         in advancing practice and how this fits in with APA and other practice divisions,

         the Practice Directorate and APAPO, CAPP, AAP, APP, etc. Need for a task force

         to study this and report back to the Board? What is Division 42’s role, what are

         these other groups’ roles, how can we not work at cross-purposes with them and not

         be redundant.

Past President Fox:

         Nominations and Elections process. N&E/Awards Committees: Ron Fox, Jean

         Carter, Melba Vasquez. No Rosalee Weiss Award this year. Distinguished

         Psychologist of the Year, Distinguished Public Service Award, other

         awards/recognitions. Call for nominations is in the mail.

         APA Task Force on External Funding Issues. Need for Division 42 position

         statement, actions, education of members? Appoint a task force to review and

         comment on (President Barnett to appoint if needed).

                  

         Update on the work of the Task Force on the Protection and Enhancement of

         Practitioner Income.

President-Elect Comas-Diaz: Appointments: Beverly Greene, Anabel Bejarano, others?

         Committee and Task Force appointments. Plans for the coming year. APA

         Governance Issues to be handled by Lillian as President-Elect; coordinate all

         nominations/elections efforts for Division 42 members to APA Boards and

         Committees. See nominees for Division 42 Committees.

Reports and presentations from each Committee, Task Force, and Liaison:

                  Finance/Treasurer Proposed budget/discussion, agree on time certain for

                  Approval, review of investments and updated plans/strategies for higher

                  yields, Treasurer review

                  Reimbursement policies).

                  Membership Had several conference calls. No response yet to the free

                  membership/free PICK guide in the apportionment mailing. Committee

                  sending a mailing to dues exempt members asking for a contribution.

                  Convention/Program (including Hospitality Suite)

                  Students/Early Career Psychologists Hospitality Suite and mentoring

                  program at the convention. New niche guide going to all new/current

                  S/ECP members of the Division free. To update their section of the

                  website.

                  Diversity Preconvention workshop, convention programming, NMCS,

                  reviewing all NICHE guides for diversity sensitivity and inclusion, planning

                  online CE course on the implementation of the Multicultural Guidelines.

                  Publications and Communications (approve new appointment

                  Process/statement).

                  PICK 42 New Niche Guide completed; to go to all S/ECP members and to be

                  used for membership recruitment/retention. Updating all niche guides for

                  content. Creating additional CE modules for niche guides. Exploring

                  expanding some niche guides into books for the book series.

                  Continuing Education Need to expand online CE offerings. Need to work

                  on State Liaison project; not moving forward well.

                  Fellows Two mailings sent out. Old fellows applications coming in. No new

                  fellows applications yet. January 2, 2005 deadline.

                  Public Education and Public Relations (including revised mission and

                  (proposed name change – need a motion for this). Ended working relationship

                  with Kelly Cunningham. Working on a brochure to help practitioners use the

                  Public Education Campaign to market their practices.

                  Independent Practitioner Current activities and focus, plans for the coming

                  year and beyond, ways of improving the IP.

                  Website Updating and use of website, changes made in the past year, survey

                   of members, plans for its ongoing development and improvement.

                  Report from APA Council Members APA issues of relevance to Division

                  42 and its members.

                  Task Force on the Protection and Enhancement of Practitioner Income

                   LBG Task Force

                   Licensing Issues Task Force

                   CAPP Report

                   Jeannie Beeaff, Division 42 Central Office: Working with a consultant

                   about possible brochures, marketing ads for the PICK 42 NICHE guides to

                   non-members, branding the Division (to include a possible name change

                   for the Division), reduced dues status for retiring members, etc.