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As I write this, we are not yet at the end of the year, but we are near enough that I can give the members of this great division a report on our activities. You can be proud of the Division this year, as there has been much energy and activity with much accomplished and even more well-begun. In addition to new and ongoing activities, the Board devoted considerable energy to ensuring that the Division is organizationally and fiscally sound. Although I am necessarily leaving many of the Division’s activities out of this list, I want to highlight some of the new and significant developments over the year:
- We developed new membership brochures for both regular members and for student/early career members and began a membership drive focusing on groups that have been traditionally underrepresented in our membership.
- We revamped the committee structure and completed a set of committee and task force appointments that bring many new faces to our governance. (PS, volunteers are always welcome!)
- We developed CE programs online (the Online Ethics Course—check the website!), home study programs coordinated with the PICK42 Niche Guides (including a collaborative initiative with the Florida Psychological Association), convention programming that offered CE credits and preconvention CE programming in collaboration with APAGS, Board of Professional Affairs of APA, and Divisions 17 (Society for Counseling Psychology) and 45 (Society for the Study of Ethic Minority Issues).
- We offered a year’s worth of Public Service Announcements sent to newspapers and radio outlets and available for your use as well.
- We were represented at the National Multicultural Conference and Summit in January and at the Education Leadership Conference in September.
- We have built a new relationship with the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology. The Register was a generous sponsor of our social hour at convention and donated a number of practice-enhancing door prizes.
- We provided strong support for member Ron Levant’s campaign for APA President and for member Ruth Paige’s campaign for APA Secretary.
Thank you to the following individuals who served our Division generously and well as chairs of committees and task forces this year. They were ably aided by a number of members, past chairs and associate chairs, giving us a large number of members actively involved in Division activities over the year.
- Doug Haldeman, chair of the Membership Committee
- Lillian Comas Diaz, Program chair
- J Benedict, Publications and Communications Committee chair
- Lisa Grossman, Finance Committee chair
- Alan Entin, chair of the Fellows Committee
- Lenore Walker, chair of the Awards Committee and the Nominations and Elections Committee
- Bob Wernick, Continuing Education Coordinator and Cluster Representative
- Elaine Rodino, Chair of the Public Relations and Public Education Committee
- Rita Dudley Grant, Chair of the Diversity in Independent Practice Committee
- Miguel Gallardo, Chair of the Student/Early Career Professionals Committee
- Hilda Besner, PICK42 Coordinator
- Jeff Barnett, Chair of the Resource Development Task Force
- Stanley Graham, Chair of the Task Force on Funding for the APAPO
- Ivan Miller, Chair of the Interdivisional Work Group on Managed Care and Health Care Policy
- John Stuart Currie, Federal Advocacy Coordinator
It has been an honor and a privilege serving as President of this great Division in 2003. I look ahead with eager anticipation to the upcoming Presidency of Ron Fox, who will offer us great leadership in 2004. Thank you for this year.
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