From: Miles-Cohen, Shari
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 1:56 PM
To: Cooke, Keith
Subject: please forward to divisions
The APA Committee on Women in Psychology is pleased to invites applications from mid-career women psychologists in clinical, consulting, academic, or academic medicals settings to apply for the 4th annual Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology. Please access the call for applications directly at http://www.apa.org/pi/women/programs/leadership/call.aspx.
2011 Call for Applications to the Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology
4th Annual Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology
The American Psychological Association Committee on Women in Psychology (CWP) announces its Fourth Annual Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology (LIWP) to be held on Tuesday, August 2, and Wednesday, August 3, 2011, in Washington, DC. This year in addition to accepting approximately 30 mid-career women psychologists who work full time in academic or academic medical settings, we will also be accepting approximately 30 mid-career women psychologists who work primarily in clinical or consulting settings. While there will be some overlap in the curriculum, there will also be separate sessions for each of the groups. This is a competitive process, and you must complete the application for the group with which you most clearly identify.
The overall mission of the LIWP is to empower, prepare and support women psychologists as leaders to promote positive changes in institutional, organizational and practice settings as well as APA and State, Provincial, and Territorial Associations (SPTA) governance, and increase the diversity, number, and effectiveness of women psychologists as leaders. The program’s mission supports APA’s goal to advance psychology as a science and profession and as a means of promoting health, education and human welfare.
Institute Objectives
1. Ensure that mid-career and senior women in psychology have the knowledge and skills necessary to compete for leadership/senior management positions in academic, practice, and other professional settings as well as APA and SPTA governance.
2. Enhance the number and effectiveness of women psychologists holding leadership positions in academic, practice, and other professional settings as well as APA and SPTA governance.
3. Increase the diversity of women psychologists in academic, practice, and other leadership positions as well as APA and SPTA governance.
4. Create networks of women psychologists in leadership/senior management positions in varied professional settings including APA and SPTA governance.
5. Document the career movement, professional advancement as well as the perceived impact of the LIWP among participants.
Who Should Apply
Mid-career (10-20 years post-doctoral degree) women psychologists who are APA members with demonstrated leadership experience, strengths and goals:
(a) holding either full-time, paid faculty appointments at the associate professor or clinical associate professor level or above in academic or academic medicine settings
Or
(b) working 20 or more hours per week primarily in clinical or consulting settings. If you are in a clinical setting, you must be a licensed psychologist to apply to the LIWP.
Women of color, lesbian and bisexual women, transgender women, and women with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
Program Components
Highly interactive, skills-focused workshops with experts in the field. The core curriculum includes:
- Leadership Models
- Mid-Career Management, Goal Setting and Planning
- Negotiation Skills
- Mentoring Networks, including gender and diversity issues
Previous Institutes and Web seminars during the year have also addressed:
- Sustaining and Funding a Research Program
- Fiscal, Program, and Personnel issues
- Managing Work-Life Balance
- Strategic Planning
- Dealing with Difficult People
Individuals who participate will leave with clearly defined professional goals, identify next steps towards promotion and leadership positions, and have the opportunity to join a monthly mentoring forum for mid-career women in psychology.
Applications and supporting materials (CV or resume and letter of recommendation) are due by 5 p.m. Eastern time on Monday, March 7, 2011. Please complete EITHER:
the LIWP 2011 Application Form For Mid-Career Women in Academic and Academic Medicine Settings
OR
the LIWP 2011 Application Form For Mid-Career Women in Clinical and Consulting Positions.
Either online application may be printed and delivered to APA via fax with accompanying documents to the APA Women’s Programs Office at (202) 336-6117, or e-mailed to the Women’s Leadership Institute .
If selected, participants will be asked to pay a $500 fee, which covers registration, program materials, and food (breakfast, lunch and snacks). In addition, participants will be invited to attend a follow-up leadership program in March 2012 at the APA headquarters in Washington, DC; participate in Web seminars on leadership issues throughout the year; and have access to a list serve for LIWP participants, faculty and staff.
Selections will be announced by Monday, May 9, 2011
For additional information, please review the frequently asked questions or contact Shari Miles-Cohen, PhD, Senior Director, Women’s Programs Office
1. Via snail-mail at American Psychological Association, 750 First St. NE, Washington, DC 20002-4242
2. Via phone at (202) 336-6044
3. Via e-mail
The American Psychological Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology has been generously funded by APA Board of Directors, the APA Council of Representatives, the APA Women’s Programs Office, the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women’s Health, Psychologists in Independent Practice, the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Psychology, the Society for the Psychological Study of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Issues, the Society for the Psychology of Women, and the Women’s Caucus of the APA Council of Representatives.
| Shari E. Miles-Cohen, Ph.D. | Senior Director, Women’s Programs Office | |
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