by Candice Turner, Psy.D.

The Board is working hard to rebuild our programming, but we need your help. Who wants to get involved, big or small?

In the next year, we would like to bring back our Annual Lecture; we know, we have missed it, too! In case you don’t know what that is, before COVID, NCSPP would have an experienced analytic lecturer (sometimes local, sometimes not) come to the Bay Area and share their brilliant knowledge, insight, and research with our community. To refresh memories, in 2019, we had our 32nd Annual Lecture: A Day with Kirkland Vaughans, Ph.D.: Plugging the School-to-Prison Pipeline, and in 2020 we had our 33rd Annual lecture with David Eng, Ph.D. on Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans. If you missed those events, you can find the recordings (and get CEs!) in our OnDemand Library on our website at https://www.ncspp.org/on-demand-video

It’s time to enrich our programming and community with these impressive minds once again. In order to do this, we need folks who are willing to jump in and assist. Each of our Board Members already has a role (some have two or even three!) and are needing support to take this on as well and get this off the ground. We have some ideas for speakers, that need to be discussed and fleshed out, and we need help securing the dates, venues, catering, and help spreading the word. Would you like to be part of the planning or can you share the event amongst your colleagues? We would appreciate it, and we look forward to having you help shape our process.  

With that said, I would also like to make a strong pitch for following and sharing (and maybe helping us with?) our new(ish) social media platforms (Instagram - @ncsppsf; Facebook - NCSPP; Twitter/X - NCSPPSF). For those of you who are already bored, hear me out. Our social media posts are built to connect us to live events and are added ways for you and your colleagues to find out about our programming and opportunities. Sharing our posts also means increasing accessibility to the type of education we provide. The more people see what we offer, the more folks get curious, and the more analytic thinking thrives. Also, if you have any interest at all in growing or enhancing our online presence, please, let us know.

As a reminder, we are still also looking for writers, instructors, committee and/or board members, mentors, and folks to fill out our Affinity Groups; if interested, please get in touch with me at cturner@ncspp.org. As always, we appreciate your support, continue to await meeting you, and welcome you into our spaces.