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August 30, 2006
I want to extend an invitation to join CPA Division 5, Clinical Psychopharmacology. In addition to its educational goals, the Division's main function will be to raise money for the upcoming battle for prescribing authority (RxP) for California Psychologists. The cost of the Louisiana fight for RxP was $800,000, with only about a third of that money coming from APA. As few as fifty dedicated psychologists in Louisiana raised the balance over 10 years.
California is currently in the throes of a health care crisis. There is now a plethora of evidence that psychologists can be excellent providers of psychological care which includes medication and can ameliorate the crisis in California. The most obvious examples of this are the Department of Defense (DOD) trained prescribers and the newly minted prescribing psychologists in Louisiana and New Mexico. As Dr. John Sexton, a DOD prescribing psychologist said, "The right to prescribe is also the right not to prescribe."
Here in California we know that the California Medical Association (CMA) has an operating budget roughly equivalent to that of the American Psychological Association ($100M). We will need to raise more money than our colleagues did in Louisiana to meet the goal of successful legislation. Your membership in the division will enable CPA to launch prescriptive authority legislation sooner rather than later. This is important as there are now four psychologists in the California Legislature who can help us convince other legislators.
Benefits of membership include entrance into upcoming CE workshops around the state at reduced fees,access to an online newsletter which will be out in the fall with CPA's new website, and voluntary enrollment in the Division 5 listserv.
Membership information is at http://www.calpsychlink.org/membership_info/divisions.htm. Please join. Thank you in advance.
Sincerely,
Sallie Hildebrandt, Ph.D.
Membership Chair and Interim
CPA Board Representative
Division 5
4130 La Jolla Village Dr., Ste 301
La Jolla, CA 92037
Phone: 858-453-1800
FAX: 858-452-3992
Email: [email protected]
www.sallie2006.com
I want to extend an invitation to join CPA Division 5, Clinical Psychopharmacology. In addition to its educational goals, the Division's main function will be to raise money for the upcoming battle for prescribing authority (RxP) for California Psychologists. The cost of the Louisiana fight for RxP was $800,000, with only about a third of that money coming from APA. As few as fifty dedicated psychologists in Louisiana raised the balance over 10 years.
California is currently in the throes of a health care crisis. There is now a plethora of evidence that psychologists can be excellent providers of psychological care which includes medication and can ameliorate the crisis in California. The most obvious examples of this are the Department of Defense (DOD) trained prescribers and the newly minted prescribing psychologists in Louisiana and New Mexico. As Dr. John Sexton, a DOD prescribing psychologist said, "The right to prescribe is also the right not to prescribe."
Here in California we know that the California Medical Association (CMA) has an operating budget roughly equivalent to that of the American Psychological Association ($100M). We will need to raise more money than our colleagues did in Louisiana to meet the goal of successful legislation. Your membership in the division will enable CPA to launch prescriptive authority legislation sooner rather than later. This is important as there are now four psychologists in the California Legislature who can help us convince other legislators.
Benefits of membership include entrance into upcoming CE workshops around the state at reduced fees,access to an online newsletter which will be out in the fall with CPA's new website, and voluntary enrollment in the Division 5 listserv.
Membership information is at http://www.calpsychlink.org/membership_info/divisions.htm. Please join. Thank you in advance.
Sincerely,
Sallie Hildebrandt, Ph.D.
Membership Chair and Interim
CPA Board Representative
Division 5
4130 La Jolla Village Dr., Ste 301
La Jolla, CA 92037
Phone: 858-453-1800
FAX: 858-452-3992
Email: [email protected]
www.sallie2006.com
