The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

2-3-17

General Meeting Agenda

The Chicago School of Profes- sional Psychology

222 Merchandise Mart Plaza, 4th Floor

Chicago, IL 60654

Lunch and Networking Hour (12 pm – 1 pm) General Meeting (1 pm – 2 pm) - Start time: 1:02 p.m.

Welcome and Introductions

Committees and Reports Treasure Report:

• Current Balance: 27,536.00

• Budget for conference: $2800.00 Professional Development (Crystal): Need speakers and interested let Crystal know Student Development (Bonnie): No report but getting students involved

Old Business:

Prac dates on the website and reminder of the dates

Prac Fair Results:

Survey Results Sites:

25 responses from sites

-56% rated it 4

28% rated it 5

16% rated 3

Qualitative Comments: • Liked Connection with other mental health professionals

• Site presentation: half attended and most felt it was helpful on guideline

• Need more advanced prac students to attend (incentive)

• Less crowded but busy

• Color dots are helpful

• More time to mingle with other professionals

• Extra chairs to talk to the students personally

• Better breakfast

• Register students based on level of training

Comments from meeting group:

• -students are using it as networking to make connection with future sites

• -advanced student barriers such as onsite on practicum

• Confused on the timing and making it more it more accessible for suburban sites.

• Student in burbs may have more logistical problems in the fair

Students Feedback:

Overall rate

2- 3.7%

3 -33%

4- 48.1

5-14.8

• Connecting with other students: more difficult

• Over quarter said no for type of sites they are interested

• Good feedback on the presentation

Qual Feedback • More master sites

• More dx sites

• Miscommunication on when it starts

• Have time split up for doctoral and master in terms of times

• Dx were the most students who attended

• More burb sites

New Business

-Nomination Process: nominate for president elect, treasure, and secretary

An e-mail will be sent next week for nomination

President Elect: 3 year position (PE, P, PP) Assisting with meetings

Treasure: 2 year position: budget, payment for fair and conference, checking account

Secretary: 2 year position: e-mails, notes at meeting, updating forms

ACEPT Conference: May 5th Loyola University

-Courageous Conversations – Supervisor’s Roles in Addressing Traumatic and Hot Topics Issues, today’s World

More information coming out in the next week e-mail

Presentation: Assessment Task Force: - seeking committee members

• Provide program where people can apply and get funding for testing materials

• Assist students in getting materials for their site

• Determine qualifying sites

• Funds available $2500

• Breakdown of type of materials

• Finalize the cost and drill down on qualifying materials (need base, funding originals, public, stratified)

• Decide how to give out the funds

• Conduct needs assessment to understand reality of the need for the area

• Send announcement • Create applications

• Determine selection process

• Decide Cap

• Figures out reimbursement

Suggestions from members:Require sites to be at a Fair

Suggestions for Assessment Committee:

• ACEPT member sites

• Accept non –students?

• Students were working with copies and have stop dx b/c of reduced funding

• Recommend need based (offered but out to sites and then determine other aspects and a more objec- tive screening.

• degree of need

• announcement

• questions about limits (once a year or more annually)

• sites who are currently struggle

• ACEPT meeting

• Start with a smaller budget and then see what is sustainable based on ACEPT budget.

• making sure clients are available to the students

• site development of being able to provide dx training

• Needs sites now vs new sites

• Committee Commitment

• finalize nuts and bolts

• specifically qualifying criteria

• time table (admin)

• Most e-mail or conference call

• Eunice and Audra will join the committee

• [email protected] (send out announcement on listserv) Community Check-In Regarding Current Political Climate and Impact on Training

• sites or students support

• Space for random topics at ACEPT meetings

• supervises activated and wrestling with feelings

• what does it mean to be a part of marginal community and how do you manage self-care

• what it means to be a psychologist right now and provide support and struggling with similar concerns that we may

• recognize how we express ourselves with advocates

• How to have difficult dialogues (as supervisor how do we navigate these)

• diversity of advocacy and struggle with guilt with more introverted advocacy and giving people permis- sion through who they are as individual and divergent voices may not feel safe. Students may not feel safe depending on how we communicate our reactions to students (management)

• heard from students: know of small pockets of students who feel ostracized and don’t feel like they can express their opinions

• Student bubble everyone wants to advocate and don’t know how to manage those challenges

• Find ways connect or find way empathy for those who hold different beliefs. Authenticity and thera- peutic

• Crisis of the world of country on top of applying for internship how can they management this both

• policies of the university and creating space for talking about what going on

• Management of our own reactions and how it’s been hard it has been

• We don’t always know how to know how to deal with the current climate and pressure on how to act

• exhausted from the energy it takes to manage reactions and not wanting to keep up a “front”

• students have been glad when faculty express their reactions

• students feel fear and being able to say it feels unsafe

• undocumented students feeling pressure and sitting with our own privilege

• maintaining hope and honoring the despair

• more window into supervisor and how they are feeling and how to balance. The are seeing us in a more real way and can be positive and healing

• diversity dialogues and added that to the training

• sometimes switching topics instead of always being focused on it all the time setting some limits

• balance address it and still taking time to check out First of many of conversations going forward with ACEPT