Craig Fabrikant, PhD, PA
I am hoping and looking forward to your vote to become President-Elect of Division 31. This Division is of vital importance to the future of Psychology. For the last fourteen years I have been very involved in the Florida Psychological Association. In 2023 I was President, and I am now the immediate Past-President.
Within the Florida Psychological Association, I have held a number of other leadership positions. These have included chairing committees and being a member of others. I was the chair of the Forensic Division and the Child, Adolescent, and Family Division, I also spent two years as Chair of the Broward County Chapters. Over the past number of years as the Ethics Chair and as the Membership Chair. Prior to coming to Florida, I was in New Jersey. I was an active member of the New Jersey Psychological Association which I joined as a full member in 1984. I am still a member.
There are other professional organizations that I have had leadership roles in. I was President of the Florida Chapter of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts and was Secretary of the Florida Academy of Collaborative Professionals.
If elected I also intend to continue placing a strong emphasis on DEI. Work in this area starts at the State, Territory, and Provincial level. I am looking forward to continuing to serve the Division and all of you as we move forward into the future. Thank you.
Anne Klee, PhD
My goals, passions, and experiences serving in professional organizations align with the mission of the Division of State, Provincial and Territorial Psychological Association Affairs (Division 31) and fuel my desire to serve as its President-Elect.
Professionally, at VA Connecticut Healthcare System, I develop, implement, and study community mental health and social services for individuals with serious mental illness, co-occurring substance use disorders and psychosocial issues such as homelessness and underemployment. I direct an interprofessional postdoctoral training program and oversee performance improvement activities preparing programs for the Joint Commission and Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities site visits. I have worked directly in this arena for and with nonprofit, city, state, and federal agencies. Along the way, I have secured service grants, published chapters and articles in the academic literature, and presented nationally, regionally, and locally on these topics.
The skills and interprofessional relationships I have developed and knowledge I have gained during my tenure at the New York City Department of Health, the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and as a Yale faculty member, supplemented by my presidencies of the Connecticut Psychological Association (CPA) (2017-20), Connecticut Psychological Association Educational Foundation (2023-24) and the Division of Psychologists in Public Service (18) (2014) as well as my service as an APA Council Representatives (2016-21), on the APA Board of Professional Affairs (2022-24, Chair 2023), and on the APA Committee of State Leaders (2020-22) have given me a rich understanding of the mental health challenges facing our country and the professional issues challenging psychologists. In my professional service roles as CPA’s Federal Advocacy Coordinator and CPA’s President, I have promoted state legislation including PSYPACT, mental health parity, and prescription privileges for appropriately trained psychologists with the goal of increasing access to care. In the past, I co-chaired four national conferences on topical public mental health issues such as the prediction and prevention of violence, application of evidence-base models, and innovations in public mental health.
I strongly believe that advocacy on state levels is crucially important especially when Washington DC is gridlocked. If elected to Division 31, I will continue to be a watchdog for issues of importance to state, provincial, and territorial associations including: scope of practice for master level psychology practitioners, third party reimbursement, mental health parity, gender affirming care, prescriptive privileges for properly trained psychologists, among others. I view myself as an advocate for our profession and a champion for our state and territorial psychological associations. My approach has been to increase the depth and breadth of the professional organizations I have served through establishing continuing education programming, creating pathways to encourage member involvement in leadership roles, securing grant funding for innovative programming such as CPA’s early career leadership academy, mentoring students and early career psychologists, and educating psychologists about issues affecting our profession. In sum, the opportunity to support our state and territorial association while addressing the needs of psychologists is of great interest to me and I am grateful for your consideration as a candidate for President-elect of Division 31.