Call for Nominations - SCP Professional Awards 2021-2022Co-Chairs Kimberly Burdine ([email protected]) and Ayşe Çiftçi ([email protected]), on behalf of the SCP Awards and Recognition Committee, request nominations for the following Division 17 Professional Awards: Professional Awards (deadline: Saturday, January 15, 2022)
SCP’s most recent strategic plan (2019-2024) includes goals such as elevating impact of counseling psychology and supporting counseling psychologists’ advocacy to promote client and community wellbeing, equity, and justice. Our current President Reynolds stated, “Every day we strive to build a more inclusive, just, and equitable profession and ensure that our work is centered in liberation and healing to dismantle oppression in all its forms, uplift all communities who are marginalized, erased, and harmed, and transform our policies, structures, and practices so that we may all one day be free.” This work is particularly important now given multiple pandemics experienced in recent years and our continued fight to support marginalized communities. Therefore, we invite all nominations to address the ways your nominees strived to make this change. The submission materials should address how the nominee aligns with and/or applies counseling psychology values, particularly as it relates to counseling psychology’s focus on Liberation Anti-Black Racism, Advocacy and Engagement. Members of the Division 17 Awards and Recognition Committee and members of the Executive Board may make nominations. However, if they do so, they must withdraw from the voting process related to any nominee for whom they have written a letter of support. Announcement of all award winners is made at the annual APA Convention (all award recipients are notified confidentially prior to the convention). Current members of the Division 17 Executive Board are not eligible for these awards during their term of office. NOMINATION MATERIALS FOR PROFESSIONAL AWARDS:The committee has updated the nomination process in efforts to promote increased accessibility and equity. We hope this process 1) increases participation, 2) expands the nomination pool and 3) addresses biases in the nomination process. Please consider self-nominations and nominations of individuals and collectives with limited resources, whose creativity and innovation is having lasting impact on their communities. Also, we ask that you assist us by forwarding this call for nominations to a colleague who you believe may not regularly access division-affiliated listervs (i.e. non-academic, practice-focused academic, internship training site/director, community mental health practitioner, private practice psychologist, university/college counseling staff/director, consultation and training communities, etc.). Completion of the nomination form should take approximately 15 minutes, and nominators will be instructed to upload a nomination packet. Nominations should include and be limited to the following: (a) no more than three supporting letters, one of which should be a letter of nomination (from self or other) and no more than two additional letters of support from psychologists; all letters should directly address how the nominee meets the criteria for the specific award; (b) a copy of the nominee’s vita. SUBMIT MATERIALS ELECTRONICALLY AT: (https://tinyurl.com/DIV17Awards)
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