Advocacy
Advocacy is broken down into 5 branches.
Legislative
Co Chairs: Grant Van Pelt & Julie Johnson
grant_vanpelt@dpsk12.org
julie.cssp@gmail.com
Roles and Responsibilities:
The Legislative Chair has the following responsibilities as a member of the Advocacy program area:
- Attend and participate in their board and program area
- Monitor legislation relating to the practice of school psychology and other issues pertaining to education and school based mental health services both locally and nationally.
- Advocate for the passage of legislation pertaining to the annually established legislative priorities of the association both locally and nationally.
- Inform CSSP members of legislative initiatives and laws that relate to the practice of school psychology both locally and nationally.
- Coordination with the newsletter editor for timely publication of legislative news.
- Review Bill Status Summary sheet and identify possible bills of interest to the membership via report to the board and executive council.
- Employ a governmental consultant.
Health Care Coordinator
Chair: Position Open
Roles and Responsibilities:
The Health Care Coordinator has the following responsibilities as a member of the Advocacy program area:
- Attend and participate in their program area and board meetings
- Act as liaison between NASP and CSSP for issues/information related to health care.
- Assist the President in the selection of members for ad-hoc task forces related to health care.
- Facilitate meetings of task force(s).
- Monitor the health care and related task forces listserv to represent those included and to provide pertinent information to them.
- Attend health care – related meetings as a representative of CSSP’s position on topics of interest.
Crisis Team
Chair: Char Armstrong
chararmstrong@mindspring.com
Roles and Responsibilities:
The Crisis Team Coordinator has the following responsibilities as members of the Advocacy program area:
- Recruit CSSP members to serve on the CSSP S-W CRT ineither a Tier I or Tier II capacity, as outlined in the team’s membership and guidelines.
- Coordinate communication to the membership regarding the CSSP S-W CRT priorities, actions plans in which the membership can participate to further the crisis management/prevention/education interests of the organization.
- Coordination with the newsletter editor for timely publication of crisis teams news.
- Coordination and planning with the Conference Chair for a crisis team table at conference.
- If possible, submit a Call for Presentation/Paper for the annual CSSP Conference on a topic related to the field of crisis intervention and prevention. Maintain contact with NASP, NOVA, NEAT, COVA, ISPA and other agencies related to crisis intervention and prevention.
- Maintain criteria for team membership (Tier I and Tier II), reviewing responsibilities with members annually.
- Facilitate and coordinate Direct Crisis Response: Upon request from a school administrator, CSSP Statewide Crisis Response Team members may be dispatched to local school districts to assist in direct crisis response.
Collaborative Relations
Chair: Lisa Bartilotta
bartilotta@hotmail.com
Roles and Responsibilities:
The Collaborative Relations Chairperson has the following responsibilities as a member of the Advocacy program area:
- Attend and participate in their program area and board meetings.
- Facilitate communication between CSSP and others for the purpose of sharing common issues, interest, or concerns.
- Make timely reports to their program area regarding matters of concern to the organization.
- Serve as liaison between CSSP and:
- CDE School Psychology Advisory Committee
- International School Psychology Association ISPA)
- Any other organization with which the organization may desire to establish professional relations
- Make a listing of representatives from each of the above organizations and turn it in to the Technology chairperson and/or webmaster for creation of a listserv.
- Make announcements, elicit feedback and receive pertinent information to distribute through the listserv.
- Submit newsletter articles as necessary.
- If attending ISPA, participate in the ISPA state delegate representative meeting.
