<p> 2-3-17</p><p>General Meeting Agenda </p><p>The Chicago School of Profes- sional Psychology</p><p>222 Merchandise Mart Plaza, 4th Floor</p><p>Chicago, IL 60654</p><p>Lunch and Networking Hour (12 pm – 1 pm) General Meeting (1 pm – 2 pm) - Start time: 1:02 p.m.</p><p>Welcome and Introductions</p><p>Committees and Reports Treasure Report: </p><p>• Current Balance: 27,536.00</p><p>• Budget for conference: $2800.00 Professional Development (Crystal): Need speakers and interested let Crystal know Student Development (Bonnie): No report but getting students involved</p><p>Old Business:</p><p>Prac dates on the website and reminder of the dates </p><p>Prac Fair Results:</p><p>Survey Results Sites:</p><p>25 responses from sites</p><p>-56% rated it 4</p><p>28% rated it 5</p><p>16% rated 3</p><p>Qualitative Comments: • Liked Connection with other mental health professionals</p><p>• Site presentation: half attended and most felt it was helpful on guideline</p><p>• Need more advanced prac students to attend (incentive)</p><p>• Less crowded but busy </p><p>• Color dots are helpful</p><p>• More time to mingle with other professionals</p><p>• Extra chairs to talk to the students personally</p><p>• Better breakfast </p><p>• Register students based on level of training</p><p>Comments from meeting group:</p><p>• -students are using it as networking to make connection with future sites</p><p>• -advanced student barriers such as onsite on practicum</p><p>• Confused on the timing and making it more it more accessible for suburban sites. </p><p>• Student in burbs may have more logistical problems in the fair</p><p>Students Feedback:</p><p>Overall rate</p><p>2- 3.7%</p><p>3 -33%</p><p>4- 48.1</p><p>5-14.8</p><p>• Connecting with other students: more difficult</p><p>• Over quarter said no for type of sites they are interested </p><p>• Good feedback on the presentation</p><p>Qual Feedback • More master sites</p><p>• More dx sites</p><p>• Miscommunication on when it starts</p><p>• Have time split up for doctoral and master in terms of times</p><p>• Dx were the most students who attended</p><p>• More burb sites</p><p>New Business</p><p>-Nomination Process: nominate for president elect, treasure, and secretary</p><p>An e-mail will be sent next week for nomination</p><p>President Elect: 3 year position (PE, P, PP) Assisting with meetings</p><p>Treasure: 2 year position: budget, payment for fair and conference, checking account</p><p>Secretary: 2 year position: e-mails, notes at meeting, updating forms </p><p>ACEPT Conference: May 5th Loyola University </p><p>-Courageous Conversations – Supervisor’s Roles in Addressing Traumatic and Hot Topics Issues, today’s World </p><p>More information coming out in the next week e-mail </p><p>Presentation: Assessment Task Force: - seeking committee members</p><p>• Provide program where people can apply and get funding for testing materials</p><p>• Assist students in getting materials for their site</p><p>• Determine qualifying sites</p><p>• Funds available $2500</p><p>• Breakdown of type of materials </p><p>• Finalize the cost and drill down on qualifying materials (need base, funding originals, public, stratified) </p><p>• Decide how to give out the funds </p><p>• Conduct needs assessment to understand reality of the need for the area</p><p>• Send announcement • Create applications</p><p>• Determine selection process</p><p>• Decide Cap</p><p>• Figures out reimbursement </p><p>Suggestions from members:Require sites to be at a Fair</p><p>Suggestions for Assessment Committee:</p><p>• ACEPT member sites</p><p>• Accept non –students? </p><p>• Students were working with copies and have stop dx b/c of reduced funding</p><p>• Recommend need based (offered but out to sites and then determine other aspects and a more objec- tive screening. </p><p>• degree of need</p><p>• announcement </p><p>• questions about limits (once a year or more annually)</p><p>• sites who are currently struggle</p><p>• ACEPT meeting</p><p>• Start with a smaller budget and then see what is sustainable based on ACEPT budget. </p><p>• making sure clients are available to the students</p><p>• site development of being able to provide dx training</p><p>• Needs sites now vs new sites</p><p>• Committee Commitment </p><p>• finalize nuts and bolts</p><p>• specifically qualifying criteria </p><p>• time table (admin)</p><p>• Most e-mail or conference call</p><p>• Eunice and Audra will join the committee</p><p>• [email protected] (send out announcement on listserv) Community Check-In Regarding Current Political Climate and Impact on Training </p><p>• sites or students support</p><p>• Space for random topics at ACEPT meetings</p><p>• supervises activated and wrestling with feelings</p><p>• what does it mean to be a part of marginal community and how do you manage self-care</p><p>• what it means to be a psychologist right now and provide support and struggling with similar concerns that we may</p><p>• recognize how we express ourselves with advocates</p><p>• How to have difficult dialogues (as supervisor how do we navigate these)</p><p>• 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)</p><p>• heard from students: know of small pockets of students who feel ostracized and don’t feel like they can express their opinions</p><p>• Student bubble everyone wants to advocate and don’t know how to manage those challenges</p><p>• Find ways connect or find way empathy for those who hold different beliefs. Authenticity and thera- peutic</p><p>• Crisis of the world of country on top of applying for internship how can they management this both </p><p>• policies of the university and creating space for talking about what going on</p><p>• Management of our own reactions and how it’s been hard it has been</p><p>• We don’t always know how to know how to deal with the current climate and pressure on how to act</p><p>• exhausted from the energy it takes to manage reactions and not wanting to keep up a “front”</p><p>• students have been glad when faculty express their reactions</p><p>• students feel fear and being able to say it feels unsafe</p><p>• undocumented students feeling pressure and sitting with our own privilege</p><p>• maintaining hope and honoring the despair </p><p>• 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</p><p>• diversity dialogues and added that to the training</p><p>• sometimes switching topics instead of always being focused on it all the time setting some limits</p><p>• balance address it and still taking time to check out First of many of conversations going forward with ACEPT</p>