1. What do you perceive as being the issues of greatest concern to SPTA associations and to their memberships?

Issues of greatest concern to SPTA associations revolve around: delivery of quality services; recruitment, retention, support for members; and protection of the profession.

The doctorate should remain the standard for entry into the profession; therefore, licensure laws are very important. It is essential that legislators, insurance agencies, and other appropriate bodies understand the standards for competent training and quality care. For that to happen, SPTA associations must have active and involved members. So it is important to recruit and retain of a diverse group of members who can be strong advocates with legislative bodies and funding agencies. SPTA associations need advocates for licensure portability, prescriptive privileges, and reasonable reimbursement for services rendered.

2. If elected to the APA Presidency, what would you do to address these issues?

I will be a strong supporter of groups like CAPP, the National Register, and ABPP that have been working on portability and reciprocity. I will urge CAPP to continue support of state prescription endeavors. And I will call on Membership to help states with recruitment and retention. I will continue to support the diversity efforts of the State Leadership Conference.

We must implement the recommendations of the Presidential Task Force on Enhancing Diversity within APA. And we must expand those recommendations to include our colleagues who are practitioners and scientists who feel unwelcome.

3. Describe your activities on the national level which have strengthened or benefited SPTAs as well as your activities and accomplishments at the state, provincial or territorial level which have strengthened SPTAs. How long have you been a member and what offices have you held in your SPTA?

As President of Division 17 I co-founded the National Multicultural Conference and Summit . We included workshops on how to develop financially sound practices at a Summit that focused on cutting edge multicultural research and practice. While Chair of the Board for Professional Affairs, we ensured that legislation making its way through APA governance supported state efforts and was practitioner friendly. I served on the task force that revised the national exam, served on the Ethics Committee and have done state ethics workshops. I have been a member of various state and local psychological associations for over twenty-five years. My office memberships have been within divisions and at the national level. I have encouraged my staff to maintain membership in the state associations. I have served as a state oral examiner for years. I am committed to strong state associations because that is where we have our greatest opportunity to include young professionals, practitioners, scientists and diverse individuals of all types and where we can influence our legislators. And it is where we have the greatest opportunity to influence our communities to take care of the least of us in society.