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Mentoring Program Educates Our Newest Members

Students and Early Career Professionals

Patricia Pitta Ph.D., ABPP- Chair of Student/Early Career Psychologist Development
Member at Large

It is with pleasure that I inform the membership of a new benefit for our newest members -- In State Mentors. Over the past six months I have been able to assign a mentor to new members. The mentors not only welcome personally the new member to our division, but are available for advice and consultation on practice and theoretical issues. I am pleased to announce the following people as members of the Student/Early Career Psychologist Development Committee:

• California- Berta Davis, Mike Gallardo, Arthur Kovacs, Elaine Rodino, Tibor Jukelevics
• Illnois- Fred Klug
• Louisana- Janet Matthews,Tom Stigall
• Maine- Rick Parker
• Maryland-Ellen Baker, Jeff Barnett
• Montana- Patrick Davis
• Michigan- Dan Setter
• New Jersey- Dorothy Cantor, Stan Moldawsky, Roz Darlen, Bonnie Markam
• North Carolina- Michael Cutler, Ron Fox
• Ohio- Mike Brickey
• Oklahoma- Richard Walton
• Pennsylvania- Dan Egli, Ed Lundeen
• South Carolina- Charles Latimer
• Texas- Tom Kozak
• Virginia- Peter Sheras, Alan Entin
• Minnesota- Jonathan Speare
• Connecticut- Ginger Blume
• New Hampshire- Mike Phillips
• Canada- Kate Hays
• Rhode Island- Larry Rothschild
• Kansas- Jim Bargar
• Wisconsin- Steve Klein, Gordon Herz
• Missours- Liz Grodsky
• Florida- Bob Wernick, Nancy Bacher
• New York- Sandy Haber, Pat Pitta, Karen Zager
• Indiana- Mike Murphy
• Washington D.C.- Lillian Comas-Diaz, Jean Carter

If you would like to be a mentor please contact me at ppitta4883@aol.com. We definitely need more than one person per state especially in the larger states we can use several mentors per state. As of now we do not have mentors in the following states where we have students/early career psychologists:

• Vermont
• Wisconsin
• Missouri
• Alabama
• Georgia
• Nebraska
• Kentucky
• Iowa

I am looking forward to welcoming you to our “Mentoring Committee and Family” of our division.

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