Conference Call Agenda
Friday, August 26, 2011 Conference Call Meeting
2pm Eastern; 1pm Central; 12pm Mountain; 11am Pacific; 8am Hawaii
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Present:
Tom Wolff
Greg Meissen
Bill Neigher
Carolyn Swift
Al Ratcliffe
Bill Berkowitz
Susan Wolfe
Chris Corbett
Dyana Valentine
Sharon Hakim
Jim Cook
Gloria Levine
Mike Lemke
Sheetal Pandya
Announcements:
1) Practice Council Representative to the Executive Committee update (Bill N, Susan & Jim Cook)
· Moving toward hiring of Executive Director (ED)
- Two days/week
- Consultation relationship
- Knowledgeable about the field
· What to do about membership with or without current consulting group especially to keep students?
· Considering an event manager for the Biennial
· Some Practice Council members voiced concerns that 2 days/week not much time but EC is still working toward how to approach the work to be done in the Outreach Proposal beyond the ED
· Continuing to consider the 50+ components of the Outreach Proposal to determine priority
· Guided by a strategic planning approach working to a higher level of activity with the hiring of the ED
· ‘SCRA financially sound and planning for the future when fewer paper copies of AJCP will be sold
· How can Practice Council be helpful to moving this forward?
· Already being helpful as EC has “sorted” & prioritized tasks in the Outreach Proposal
2) Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice (Vince, Victoria, Liesette, Dyana, Tom)
Need/Opportunity: Recruiting submissions from abroad
· Need to include tools – if anyone has a tool please consider submitting
· Moving forward with conference proceedings from 3rd & 4th International and Chicago Biennial
· Getting a good number of submissions but need more international submissions
· Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice is doing great!!!!
3) CP Practice Book (Susan & Victoria)
· Still working on the revised proposal getting ready to submit to Sage sometime in the fall
· SCRA Book Series editors are not as interested as Sage
4) Material for next TCP (Susan Wolfe, Jim Dalton)
· Upcoming issue done
· Next issue - U-Mass, Lowell on how they have integrated the competencies written by Meg Bond
· Issue after that will be on another of the competencies to be determined with CEP/Jim Dalton
· Issue after that will be on another “work domain” (e.g., Govt, Program Evaluation)
· Current issue is on the work setting of Foundations which is interesting
· TCP articles are automatically put on “members” section on SCRA website
· We could post articles from TCP on the Practice section of website?
· A number of us cannot find TCP
- Sharon reports that you have to sign on, go to Research section and find the TCP
- Can also get to TCP through Membership Center
· Jim will ask Roger Mitchell, Chair of Publications Committee, to make TCP easily accessible
(Here is what Roger said: “Yes, we did decide to make all but the most current TCP available to everyone. TCP's from 1990 through Winter 2011 are currently available to the general public without having to be a SCRA member. The URL is: http://www.scra27.org/resources/scrapublic/tcp
You can get to the URL by:
a.) Googling TCP or "The Community Psychologist"; or
b.) Going to the SCRA Home Page:
* clicking "SCRA Publications" under the SCRA Quick Links column at the bottom right
* clicking on "The Community Psychologist"
Perhaps we need to make the TCP link more prominent on the SCRA home page.
I am setting up a publications committee meeting and will keep you posted - Roger”)
5) Early Career Initiative (Tiffeny)
· No new information today but this initiative has begun
· Gloria is also part of this group
· TCP has great article & example on how Gloria was helpful to Maria in her getting tenure
6) Engaging More Practice Council Members in our Work Groups (Bill B)
Need/Opportunity: Reach out to less active Practice Council members
· Bill B points out that there are 20 or so “core members”
· Another 20 or so who are “intermittently involved”
· Another 20 or so who were “involved at an earlier time” but are not currently involved
· Another 20 or so who were “involved with a specific issue” at an earlier time but not active now
· Another 20 or so like to stay “informed/cc’d” but usually don’t join us unless for a specific issue
· Bill asked if reaching out to the intermittently involved as well as some of those involved at an earlier time or involved with a former issue would generate interest in our newer tasks and initiatives
· There are actually 99 people on our distribution list at this time
· Tom suggested that we personally reach out to these folks with needs/opportunity
· Bill B offered to draft a note to these folks that would include “needs & opportunities”
· Gloria pointed out that some might be interested but cannot be on call due to work/time restraints
· Susan suggested that we identify current and past SCRA members especially those working in practice settings and reach out to them to see if interested
· Jim noted that many of these people may not be getting info from listserve (1357 vs 850+)
· Also lots of recently formerly members who might be interested
· Jim will ask Scot to identify these 500+
7) Taking “Great Ideas” Session at Chicago Biennial to the TCP (Bill B)
Need/Opportunity – Coordinate the TCP column
· Possible work group from larger Outreach Initiative
· Beyond the TCP Practice Column
· Is there someone(s) willing to coordinate this column
· A starting point would be to enlist those who participated at “Great Ideas” sessions at Biennial
· Bill B write note to Practice Council members & those at Great Ideas sessions seeking volunteers
8) SCRA Membership Committee (Susan, Jim Cook)
Needs/Opportunity: Join the SCRA Membership Committee with Susan
· Much action at the EC level especially as it moves toward the ED
· Anyone from Practice Council interested in the Membership Committee let Jim Cook or Susan know
· High on Jim’s priority list
· Some efforts underway
· Going to look at graduates of community programs
· Reviewing biennial list for following up
· Looking at old membership lists
· Want to ask why they left SCRA and what would it take to bring them back
· SCRA does not know what universities members graduated from
· If anyone has questions that we want to ask member let Jim or Susan know
9) Organized outreach - Community Psychology Practice (Bill B, Bill N, Susan, Sharon)
Need/Opportunity: Group needs someone to step up to take the leadership from Bill Berkowitz who cannot continue to commit this – or at least agree to coordinate one outreach project -Great need and terrific opportunity for leadership
· Accomplished much but time to regroup, reorganize and recharge to move forward
· Do we want to continue this overall organizing group that helps support work groups?
· Dyana offered to be part of a specific work group as it might form
· Is there anyone interested to phase into Bill’s coordination role?
· Are there people interested in coordinating work groups?
· Maybe we can push this forward with independent work groups w/o an coordinating group
· Bill will draft a piece to move this forward to develop the independent work groups
10) Community Psychology Competencies & Standards (CPPC/CEP)
Need/Opportunity: Form/reform joint CPPC/CEP work group
· 9/2 the CEP is meeting to discuss this issue
· Consensus to develop an agreed upon list of competencies
· Hopefully CEP will go to departments to get their input
· What does CEP need from CPPC?
· There was a panel at Portugal Conference on how different countries are addressing competencies
- Greg & Todd Shagott were part of that session that included a number of countries
11) International Community Psychology Conference Barcelona, Spain
· Need/Opportunity – Coordinate a Practice Council proposal
· Deadline for proposals is September 30
· Take a look at the website (http://www.4cipc2012.org)
· Is there anything we want to work on together to submit?
· We would have to figure this out on our next call
12) Profiles Project (Jim C, Bill B, Susan, Alexis, Victoria, Kyrah, Dyana, Al, Rachel, Tiffeny, Rachel S.)
Need/Opportunity: All of us need to add our profiles!
· Jim updated that more profiles are coming in but still a small number
· Jim also cannot continue on this due to EC President role
· Infrastructure in place to accept profiles but not a recruitment effort to get more profiles
· Rachel just finished PhD and has moved to Baltimore
· Greg will ask Kyrah if she could contact Rachel & Alexis to see if the 3 or a 2/3 could take the lead
· Susan suggested that reaching out to the 500+ to contribute profiles
· Everyone on call promised to get their Profiles by next call
13) SCRA Webpage – Online Forums and Blog (Sharon, Kyrah, Gina & Zach)
· 5000 visitors since we launched
· Zach Bartuch has offered to be Blog Guru
· Is currently a Vista volunteer getting ready to go to graduate school soon
· Will be a call for new Bloggers soon so be prepared
· After US, Taiwan most often visitor to blog
· Gina will start double blogging with same info on SCRA & Google
· If we post our stuff on SCRA website it goes to everyone
14) CEP Collaboration/Changing Community Psychology Graduate Training
(Tiffeny, Judah, Al, Jim Dalton, Gregor, Greg, Bill &Tom)
Need/Opportunity: Help with implementation of funded consultation intervention- encourage your
program to apply
· Five consultant applications submitted
· One program application submitted
· Still waiting for programs to apply so please encourage your program by 9/15
15) Value Proposition Proof of Concept (Bill Neigher, Sharon Hakim)
· Still analyzing and working on the data
· Need continuing education in certain areas
· Ranking of these 17 areas in terms of use and proficiencies
· Working on article for Global Journal
· Al wondered if any universities offered CEUs
· Greg reported that WSU has done them for community partners
· Sharon reported that the Student Group is developing some plans for Online CEU offerings
· Most get the skills through “on the job training”
· Such products could serve our students/members and others (like Conn Institute?)
· Sharon will talk to Todd Bottom and report next month on progress
16) Mini-Grants (Bill N, Sharon, Al)
Need/Opportunity: Reviewers Needed - Community Mini-Grant is looking for 2-3 more members to round out our review committee. Commitment time varies, depending on applicant volume.
Need/Opportunity: Encouraging applications
· Good progress
· Phase 1/pre-application = yes, then full application
· 14 reviewers
· 15 applications
· About ½ involved in developing 3 pager for Phase 2
· 1 ready to be funded but pending notice
· Notices in Global Journal encouraging International Applicants
· All will have to do a 1 page final report for dissemination and posting on SCRA website
17) Community Tool-Box Ask an Advisor
Need/Opportunity: Need volunteers for the coming year
· Four have signed up for 2012 including Rhonda Lewis’s WSU Practicum Class, Al, Gina, Dyana
· If interested please e-mail Bill B
· Sheetal Pandya offered to be an Advisor so will contact Bill B
18) SCRA Policy Committee
· Tom & Chris are on this group
· Judah is organizing this group
· Many ideas including quickly deciding on important issues and what SCRA could speak out on
· About 20 people involved
· Another group on Environmental Issues getting started
19) Practice Council Process Suggestions from Biennial
· How to engage those on our Practice mailing list to participate in our tasks – lots of opportunities
· Are there some simple/easy ways to engage people
· Feature 1 or 2 things/month to go out to the SCRA listserve that very specifically provides the opportunity – exactly what we are looking for and some commitment of time
· Say openly that people can participate as they are able & welcomed back as schedule allows
· Seek out ambassadors at every graduate programs
· Elevator speech on what is CPPC that regularly is posted on meeting notes, listserve & other places
· Regular blurb to the SCRA student listserve/
· Can we leverage technology to enhance our monthly meetings?
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20) Schedule next meeting
· Friday, September 16, 2011 @ 2pm Eastern;1pm Central;12pm Mountain;11am Pacific; 8am Hawaii
Who / Past Meeting Agreements / By When
Susan & Victoria / Practice Book proposal to Sage / 9/30/11
Susan / Practice material from Biennial in TCP / 1/1/12
Bill B & Chris / Check with Maria, editor of TCP, about article on “great ideas” / 9/16
Chris / Will more fully develop the idea for the TCP article / 9/16
Anyone / Volunteer to edit article on “great ideas” contact Chris Corbett / ASAP
Bill B / Call next meeting of Outreach Group to determine structure, roles & next steps / done
Sharon / Work with Scot to create a “double blogging” set up and monitor traffic to determine if we move the blog to the SCRA website / done
Zach & Sharon / Zach offered to be “blog guru” & Sharon will coordinate to transition role / done
Tom, Susan, Monika & Sheetal / Volunteered to be reviewers of mini-grants / done
Vince / Offered space in Global Journal for call for proposals for mini-grants / done
Anyone / Volunteer to be Community ToolBox “Ask an Advisor” / done
Jim Dalton / Will find out about new SCRA scheduler to get us on that agenda / done
August 26, 2011 Meeting Agreements
Jim / ask Roger Mitchell, SCRA Publications Chair, to make TCP easily accessible / done
Bill B / draft an e-note to intermittent and previous members that will include “needs & opportunities” / 9/16
Jim / ask Scot to identify the 500+ who are SCRA members but not on SCRA listerve / 9/16
Bill B / write note to Practice Council members & those at Great Ideas sessions seeking volunteers to do Great Ideas TCP column / 9/16
Anyone / Questions or Interested in participating in the Membership Committee let Jim Cook or Susan know / 9/16
Bill / draft a piece to describe and to move Outreach Group forward by developing independent work groups / 9/16
Everyone / Take a look at the Barcelona website (http://www.4cipc2012.org) to consider going and to see what we want to work on together to submit / 9/16
Greg / Ask Kyrah if she could contact Rachel & Alexis to see if the 3 or a 2/3 could take the lead on the Profiles Project / done
Everyone / Complete profile for SCRA website / 9/16
Sharon / Talk to Todd Bottom and report next month on progress on Online CEU idea / 9/16