First, Cliff O Donnell is developing a reading list on cultural compatibility and establishing a resource list of people around the country who would be willing to serve as consultants on the topic of diversity training. Second, program directors were asked to describe what their programs have done in this area as part of the annual check-in with programs. Cary Cherniss will write an article based on the results of this survey for publication in The Community Psychologist. This project stemmed from the recurrent concern voiced by graduate students regarding employment opportunities in the field. The Diversity of Opportunity, to be published by Haworth Press.
Chapters illustrate a variety of employment positions.
It will be published in 2000. At the behest of several of our members, our representative to this group argued that more time should be allocated for community-oriented training in accredited clinical internships. Our position received a sympathetic hearing from the other councils at CCTC s midwinter meeting, and CCTC adopted a proposal expressing this point of view. Therefore, CCTC encourages graduate programs and internship settings to provide a balance of supervised experience in a variety of training activities including program evaluation, prevention, consultation, supervision, program development, public policy, broad-based assessment and intervention, etc. When students are engaged in these experiences at practicum sites, we believe that these activities should count as practicum hours.