The Colorado Society of School Psychologists has a mini-grant program designed to support early career practitioners. The CSSP Early Career Mini-Grant is completely dependent on private donations and proceeds from the CSSP silent auction/raffle held at the annual fall conference. For the 2021-2022 school year, $800 is available for mini-grants, with a maximum amount awarded per grant of $400. Mini-grant funds may be used for the following purposes: materials to support direct instruction in a classroom or virtually; education and training materials; relevant professional development activities/workshops; assessment materials; items which help meet the basic needs of children; therapeutic curricula; relevant apps and/or games; and books for children. Grants may not be used for CSSP fall conference registration fees.

Qualifications
 - Current member of the Colorado Society of School Psychologists
- Currently working in the field of school psychology in a school in Colorado
- Three or less years of experience and/or graduation from a school psychology graduate program within the last 3 years. If you are in your third year of practice, you may apply.

See the 2021-22 CSSP Mini-Grant App Info.pdf for additional information and application instructions.

Registration is now open for the 2021 CSSP Fall conference! The conference will be held November 11-13 at the Beautiful Vail Marriott in Vail, CO.

This year’s conference theme, Embracing Change: School Psychology in a Transforming World reminds us of the importance for educational professionals to change as the world around us changes. Change provides us an opportunity to disrupt our current thought processes and way of practicing to reinvent ourselves to better serve our students. We are experiencing a time of unprecedented personal and professional changes due to COVID-19 and our country’s continued struggle for equality and social justice, which present opportunities to learn new and different ways of assessing and providing services to our students. Reconnect with your colleagues while we embrace change together to make this school year one of our most productive ever!

Click on the EVENTS or MEMBER EVENT REGISTRATION tab at the top of the page for more information! Members - be sure to login before registering so you can access the Member Event Registration tab and the discounted member registration!

Click on the Jobs Board link to see available school psychologist jobs! Englewood and Weld RE-3J are hiring for the upcoming school year!

2021 School Psychologist of the Year Nomination

The Colorado Society of School Psychologists (CSSP) is currently accepting nominations for the 2021 School Psychologist of the Year. If you would like to nominate an exemplary school psychologist for this honor, please see the guidelines outlined below. Co-workers, supervisors, students, parents, and anyone else who has worked with the nominee in a professional setting may write letters of support.

CSSP only considers school psychologists currently working in the school setting. Nominees must be members of CSSP. A committee of educational professionals will review all nomination packets submitted. The winner will be announced at the CSSP Fall Conference. Additionally, they will then have the opportunity to be nominated for NASP’s School Psychologist of the Year.

NOMINATION DEADLINE: September 24, 2021

See 2021 SPOTY call for nominations.docx for more information.

APA has just released recommendations for kids returning to K-12 schools. The document has a lot of helpful information and considerations. It can be accessed here.

Congratulations to Representative Jeni Arndt on the NASP Government and Professional Relations (GPR) Special Friend of Children Award.

The NASP GPR "Special Friend of Children" Award is given to individuals or groups outside the profession who have nationally supported political action and advocacy on behalf of children to improve education and mental health services for children, youth and their families. These awardees have worked to make systemic changes in policies that govern the provision of education and mental health services at the state and national level. In addition, these individuals or groups have worked to support the NASP mission and its goals. Individual nominees or groups have so distinguished themselves by this service that clear evidence of improvement of education and services for children can be readily documented. 

To learn more about the award or the other winners click here. 

We are proud of Representative Arndt's advocacy work for the children and school psychologists in Colorado.

Colorado School Districts:

Do you want help recruiting for your open school psychologist positions?
Every year, we send CSSP board members to the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) Annual Convention.  At the convention, we network with school psychologists from around the nation.  We also will have a booth to advertise school psychologist positions and to recruit out of state candidates.  Our goal is to support our Colorado school districts in recruiting school psychologist to address the shortage of school psychologists in our state. 

If you/your district is interested in partnering with us and advertise your school psychologist positions, we would be happy to distribute flyers for each of you.   
if you are interested in having us advertise your positions at the NASP convention, email Krista Klabo at kristaklabo@gmail.com with all pertinent info and/or send a pdf of a flyer by February 14th.