Index
· FROM THE NEWSLETTER COMMITTEE
· A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR OF CMTP
· CMTP 25TH REUNION PLANS IN PROCESS
· AN APPEAL FOR FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR THIS YEAR'S INTERNS
· TEACHING FROM A MULTICULTURAL STANCE
· MINUTES - FIRST BOARD MEETING - APRIL 12,1996
· MINUTES - NOVEMBER 1, 1995 · PROFESSIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE'S TASK FORCE ON INCORPORATION
· IRS DECLARES NMTP TAX-EXEMPT
· MEMBERS TO ELECT TWO DIRECTORS
· FOUNDING MEMBERS CERTIFIED

FROM THE NEWSLETTER COMMITTEE
We're proud to send out this second issue, with its good news about the CMTP Program, achievement of provisional tax-exempt status, a very interesting race for two seats on the Board, news of the forthcoming combined CMTP 25th Reunion and NMTP Annual Meeting, and a new column for conversation about multicultural training. This issue begins a practice required by the NMTP By-Laws, the publication of the Minutes of Board Meetings. The record starts with the last meeting of the CMPT Professional Advisory Committee in November, 1995, when a group of us signed on as the original Board to incorporate NMTP as a nonprofit organization. In each succeeding issue, we will be bringing the record up to date as we publish NMTP Board Meeting Minutes in sequence.
The Committee is grateful to Terri Betts for typesetting the first issue, and to Jamie Crawford and Norma Bynoe for volunteering to join Committee members in addressing, stamping, and mailing the first issue. There is still plenty of room for new Newsletter Committee members and for occasional volunteers!
We welcome contributions from our readers, including columns for "Teaching from a Multicultural Stance," brief articles on matters relevant to culturally competent practice, reminiscences about "The Program" and its informal network, etc. Perhaps you might want to start a regular column on topic of importance. If you don't feel up to an article, perhaps you might want your voice heard in a Letter to the Editor. We hope that NMTP Notes will soon develop into complex, polyphonic music, full of interesting harmonies and dissonances.
Thanks to Cynthia Martin, Herb Joseph, and to Guy Seymour and many other members of CMTP's informal network, for contributing to our mailing list, which now includes about 400 names and addresses. We are still looking to locate a number of network members. Please let us know if you can help us locate any of the following folks: Margarita Alvarez, Maria Martinez-Alvarez, Zoila Avila-Vivas, Jonathan Bass, William Brickhouse, Leon Briggs, Ines Canabal, Angela Dais, Hilario de la Iglesia-Diez, Elizabeth Francisco, Efrain Fuentes, Robert Gaona, Maria Guerrero, Warren Harper, Barbara Kleeman, John La Llave, Fernando Vasquez-Medina, Illeana Medina, Marianne Miller, Gisela Nunez, Imogene Parker, Estela Perez, Hector Rios Perez, Luz Perez, Jay Quintal, Gregory Roane, Pauline Robertson, Rene Rocha, Carmen Rullan-Ramirez, Christine Saunders, Sharon Shepherd-Burr, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, Andrea Foley Smith, Frederick Smith, Salathiel Smith, Marsella Stewart, Prem Suksawat, Jeanne Taylor, Dora Weaver, William Wright

A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR OF CMTP
HERB JOSEPH, PH.D.

I would like to thank the NMTP, Inc., Newsletter Committee for an opportunity to update all of you about current and future CMTP program developments. First, the current intern group deserve special recognition for being the first intern class to experience and cope successfully with the chaos usually associated with institutional mergers (in this case, combining Boston City Hospital and University Hospital into what has been Boston Medical Center since July 1, 1996). The five interns in the 1996-97 class, slated to complete the program at the end of August, 1997, are Terri Betts, Psy.D. (Antioch/New England Graduate School/ Defended Psy.D. in February, 1997); Don Elligan, M.A. (Farleigh Dickinson University/ Spring, 1997, Ph.D. defense pending); Ana Gomez, B.A. (Psy.D. candidate, University of Denver); Dana Karasaki, M.A. (Psy.D. candidate, Pepperdine University); Cathy Louie, M.S. (Ph.D. candidate, University of Massachusetts-Boston).
With the help and support of the current interns and staff (Drs. Pedro Garrido & Mike Rossi, along with the sustained energy and commitment shown by Ms. Cynthia L. Martin, Administrative Assistant to the Director), we were once again successful in recruitment. On February 10th, offers were made, and accepted by the following interns who will begin their training in September, 1997: Yu-Wen Chou, M.A. (Psy.D. candidate, Minnesota School of Professional Psychology); Denise Daniels, M.A. (Ph.D. candidate, Loyola University of Chicago); Patrick Latham, M.A. (Ph.D. candidate, University of Massachusetts-Boston); Maria Jose Perez, M.Ed. (Psy.D. candidate, Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology); Maria Vasquez, B.A. (Ph.D. candidate, University of Rhode Island).
We look forward to having them share in and contribute to the legacy of MTP/CMTP! I am pleased to announce that the intern stipend has been increased from $10,000 to $17,000 next year, to include health insurance. This is great news for CMTP and comes as a result of the sincere commitment by Domenic A. Ciraulo, M.D., new Chair of Psychiatry at the Boston University School of Medicine, and Chief of Psychiatry at Boston Medical Center, to support and value the historic mission of CMTP and strengthen the overall role of Psychology within the Department of Psychiatry. At my invitation, Dr. Ciraulo has agreed to speak at the next CMTP Network Dinner, scheduled Thursday, May, 1, 1997, at the Boston Medical Center. His talk will focus on substance abuse; an area of both clinical and research expertise. Please save this date. Hope to see you there!
Finally, I would like to let you all know how much it means to me personally and to the CMTP to see the NMTP, Inc., come to life and take an active role in providing leadership and support in the area of multicultural training, practice, and research. "The Network" has been a sustaining force in my development as a psychologist and tremendous boost for the program during both good and bad times, as we have sought to preserve and grow in our efforts to "give back" to interns and to share resources with those communities we have been privileged to serve. Thanks for your ongoing support of the NMTP, Inc.!

CMTP 25TH REUNION PLANS IN PROCESS

From Thursday, June 26, through Sunday, June 29, 1997, we will be celebrating in Boston the 25th Reunion of the Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology/Minority Training Program. The schedule will include the first formal Annual Meeting of the Network for Multicultural Training in Psychology, Inc. Please save the dates; we will keep you advised of the particulars as the plans solidify. The theme of the convocation is "Networking for Practice and Professional Development."
Here is a preliminary outline of the Program:
Thursday: Informal reception and registration.
Friday: CE Workshops on the following topics: Critical Incident Response; Working with multicultural/multiethnic children, within and outside the school setting; Managing managed care.
Saturday: Daytime - CE Workshops on the following topics: Ethics; Building networks of providers from a multicultural perspective. Annual Meeting of the Network for Multicultural Training in Psychology, Inc. Evening - Dinner dance.
Sunday: Retribalization and farewell.
We are looking for volunteers, particularly from the Boston area, to join the Reunion Committee to plan and carry out the celebration. Please get in touch with one of us.
Reunion Committee Co-chairs
G. Rita Dudley-Grant, Ph.D.
P.O. Box 24241
St. Croix, VI 00824-0241
fax 809 773-7734
ad748@virgin.usvi.net
809 773-6445
Lisa M. Porché-Burke, Ph.D.,Chancellor
Calif. Sch. of Prof. Psychology
1000 South Freemont Avenue
Alhambra, CA 91803-1360
fax 818 284-1552
818 284-2777
Guy O. Seymour, Ph.D.
872 Conference Ave., S.E.
Atlanta, GA 30316
fax 404 817-6750
guyo@ix.netcom.com
404 817-6750

AN APPEAL FOR FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR THIS YEAR'S INTERNS

We are delighted with the news of the Boston University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry's generous increase in compensation for the 1997-1998 internship year (See the CMTP Director's column in this issue). Psychiatry's generosity supports NMTP's initial goals of increasing the number and compensation of CMTP interns.
This year's interns, some of whom are active in NMTP activities while maintaining their demanding internship schedule, continue their labors at the current modest rate of compensation. Let's show our support for the current interns, and gratitude for Psychiatry's generosity, by contributing to an intern travel and conference scholarship fund. These funds, some of which could be disbursed this year to 1996-1997 interns, would be available to pay for intern travel to conferences (including conference fees and expenses), or travel to home universities to meet with dissertation committees or advisors.
We hope that readers who were MTP/CMTP interns will remember your own arduous, minimally-compensated labors, and reach into your pockets to show this year's interns your support, as well as fund the scholarship for future years. Please send your tax-deductible contributions to NMTP (Network for Multicultural Training in Psychology, Inc.), c/o David Trimble, Clerk, 47 Winthrop Road, Brookline, MA, 02146. Remember to write, "Travel and Conference Scholarship" on your check. Thank you!

TEACHING FROM A MULTICULTURAL STANCE

An Invitation Beginning with this issue, NMTP Notes provides a forum for discussion of teaching psychology from a multicultural perspective. Newsletter committee member Alice LoCicero begins the discussion. Readers are invited to share their responses or other thoughts in this forum.

Courses in Multicultural Counseling: Segregated Psychology? Alice LoCicero, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Rivier College

In summer of 1991, I told students in a graduate level lifespan development course at Lesley College that I believed one of the theories I was teaching was somewhat culture?bound. My own background is a mixture of Arab-American and Italian-American. Although my mother's Arab family had been seen as different, and apparently were seen by some as being of color, I am almost always assumed by others to be white and Euro-American. When I was growing up, my families were in a hurry to acculturate, and, as a result, I learned to minimize cultural differences and to focus on power differences. At the time that I made the statement that a theory was culture-bound, I was just beginning to consciously recognize the implications of cultural difference.
In response to my comment, a student asked me to estimate what percentage of the information being taught in the course was culture?bound. I began to look at the course content, which was comparable to that included by other professors in the program, and also matched that of various textbooks on the subject. The exploration was a bumpy one, and at the end of it I had my reply to the student: approximately 100%. The next semester my colleague Jill Tarule and I re?designed the lifespan development course. We taught the standard theories, and we also worked with students at assessing the relevance of the theories to those who identified themselves as members of some nondominant cultures in the U.S., for example, American Indians, African?Americans, Arab?Americans, Japanese?Americans, Jewish Americans, Lesbians and Gay men and Puerto Ricans. In ten later sections of the course, students in my sections and those taught by my colleague, Barbara Mantel, explored the relevance of lifespan development theories to many other groups, including people who are deaf, (Asian) Indian women, Cambodian?Americans, Gypsies, Australian Aborigines, people of Senegal, and people of Turkey who practice the Islamic faith. We had many and diverse guest speakers, invited by students. We all worked extremely hard, and learned a lot. It was an exciting time. At the end of it, I felt both pleased and weary. We had a more complex view of the relevance of theories of development. There were some theories, notably theories of attachment and cognitive development, and some limited concepts from other theories, which seemed to have some relevance across cultures. There were others which had very little. My colleagues at Lesley were generally supportive. But we shared, I think, a nagging concern for our students: If lifespan theories are not very relevant to many of the people they may be working with, what would our students hold on to??how would they know if people are progressing in counseling? And how would they assess the needs of clients for whom the theories don't work?
Later, teaching counseling and clinical courses at other institutions, I have faced similar challenges, and also some new ones. Our students must be familiar with the mainstream theories of counseling and clinical work, in order to work in existing settings, pass exams for licensure, and converse intelligently with their peers. Yet it doesn't seem responsible to focus on skills and theories of counseling which are likely to be irrelevant to many of the clients our students will later work with. A second challenge is that few faculty seem to be interested in the possibility that the standard subject matter in counseling programs is severely limited in its application. The prevailing perspective among faculty seems to be that counseling clients who are not of the dominant culture simply requires a bit of fine?tuning of our non?verbal and verbal clinical skills. For example, many faculty seem to believe that students simply need to be taught when, in working with a client of a particular culture, to have more or less eye contact, to maintain more or less distance, and so on. The perspective is that these subtle changes and shifts in communication patterns will be sufficient??that students can use standard methods of counseling, with these minor adjustments, for all clients. A few faculty also have heard that some counseling theories are better for members of some cultures. Active therapies, for example, may be rumored to be more appropriate than a client?centered approach, for clients of nondominant backgrounds.
Programs have added special courses in "multicultural counseling", in which, it is thought, students will learn minor adjustments and also which theories to use with which clients, while keeping the current courses intact. As I talk to students in many different institutions, I gather that some multicultural courses focus on just these minor adjustments. In a few, faculty members challenge the applicability of the standard counseling paradigm.
I am currently preparing to teach a course in multicultural counseling in a counseling program at Rivier College, where we now offer a certificate in bilingual and bilingual/multicultural counseling. As I do so, I become less and less comfortable with the concept of a separate multicultural counseling course, and even of an elective sequence of courses and practica within a program, such as we have at Rivier. It is as if counseling dominant culture (straight, healthy, middle class, white, Euro?American) clients is being segregated from counseling non?mainstream (everyone else) clients. I worry that the effect of these specialized courses is keeping "them" over there, in "that course", while "we" are in the regular courses. Ironically, a large majority of courses are thus reserved for theories and research relevant to far fewer than half the people in the U.S. Should students be allowed to elect to learn only about counseling a small subgroup of people who fit the designation of "dominant culture"? Should we rename the courses "counseling" (for what is now multicultural counseling) and "monocultural counseling" (for what is now called counseling)?
Not only am I uncomfortable with separate courses, but I can no longer teach any courses without being aware??and making students aware??of the limitations of the commonly?taught theories and research. (Some of my peers say that we don't have to worry about the research findings. But the questions asked, the models applied, the analyses made, and the populations included in studies all must be evaluated before the findings can be applied, and frequently, when this is done, the findings turn out to have very limited applicability indeed.)
In various schools, my undergraduate and graduate courses, guest lectures, advising and mentoring have been very well?received by students who do not identify themselves as members of the dominant American culture. They report that they find themselves, their families and their communities, included in my courses in a way which is unusual in their academic experience. However, some of my peers and students become uncomfortable with my efforts to make standard courses in psychology more inclusive. I understand their discomfort. It is as if I were publicly criticizing the field??implying that there were some arguably shameful shortcomings about psychology. As if, by my actions, I were saying to my peers, "Much of what you learned in all those years studying psychology, and much of what you teach now, is only relevant to a very small segment of the world's people." This discomfiting thought??that principles learned and practices mastered through sustained study and effort are of severely limited applicability??is one that I have taken in over several years. I understand well the reluctance to hear it.
Nevertheless, the next transition, which I see as inevitable, is one which some programs have made and kept, some have made and lost, some are continuing to try to make, and some haven't even considered. It is a radical one??the move from a course or a few courses in multicultural counseling to a rich, diverse counseling program, with all courses "multicultural", or, perhaps more accurately, "inclusive". Perhaps faculty in programs in various steps in the transition might use this column to focus our thoughts on the process. Do others agree that this transition is needed? How can such a transition be made, and kept, while all faculty and students are supported?

Author's Note: The evolution of some of these ideas was facilitated in discussions at various presentations and meetings sponsored by Division 17, (Counseling) at the APA convention in Toronto, Canada, August 1996. I wish to acknowledge Janet Helms, for a clear and forthright presentation, and also Robbie Steward and Karyn Boatwright, from Michigan State University, who chaired a particularly helpful Conversation Hour discussion. Enid Lee, anti-racism educator and consultant to Cambridge Friends' Schook, has also been an important resource for me. The final responsibility for what I have written is, of course, my own.

MINUTES - FIRST BOARD MEETING - APRIL 12,1996

Attendance: President K. Dawkins-Brickhouse, Vice Presi dent Leon Nicks, Clerk David Trimble, Directors Allen Brown, Adriana Rodriguez. Also in attendance: Herbert Joseph. Absent: Directors Kermit Crawford, Melvin Rosenthal.
The meeting process was informal and collaborative. The minutes are presented as a set of topics and actions taken thereon. They are in more of a sequence than were our actual discussions.
1. ROLE AND DUTIES OF THE TREASURER Mike, who was unable to attend this meeting, will be spending less of his professional time in the BU/BCH neighborhood. Because of this, he is concerned about keeping up with the responsibilities of office. We discussed this, seeking ways of clarifying the Treasurer position. We noted that the Treasurer is supported by a Finance Committee, which can be assembled around the time of the Fall Convocation (see below, II), and will include non-Directors who can be selected on the basis of their organizational finance experience. Before that time, the major tasks are establishing the bank account, which requires that NMTP have an employer Identification Number (EIN), and preparing the 501(c)(3) application. We filled out the forn for the EIN at the meeting; when we get the word that we have been assigned an EIN, David will advise CMTP, who will pass the number to Bobbie and Leon, who will then speak with Mike about support for the Treasurer. The Board would like the bankaccount set up at a bank in the neighborhood of BU/BCH. Leon took on leadership of the 501(c)(3) application Task Force; David will participate, and we will ask Kermit to join in this effort.
II. PROGRESS REVIEW AND MEETING PLANNING We are just getting started, and cannot meet our own deadlines for preparation of an Annual Meeting as specified in the By-Laws (for example, we do not currently have a roster of Members (see below, III). We settled upon the idea of an "organizational year" of 18 months, with the first formal Annual Meeting to take place in June, 1997, at the CMTP 25th reunion. David will approach the Secretary of the Commonwealth's office and the Department of Revenue to see if this plan meets their reporting and tax requirements. [I spoke with the Secretary of the Commonwealth's office on April 16; they will require our first Annual Report be filed with them by November 6, 1996. I will call the Department of Revenue to see what they have to say; my guess is that the longest extension we could get would be to November, 1996. This gives the 501(c)(3) Task force some incentive, since we have to pay a minimum annual tax of $456 whether or not we take in any money. ]
The Board reviewed David's draft of the narrative description of the activities of the organization, and declared it to be a "good start," subject to revision as the rest of the 501(c)(3) application is prepared.
We agreed to organize a 1996 "Fall Convocation.," we hope at new Psychology headquarters in the Dowling Building. This will move us along with establishing a Membership list, and provides a context for recruiting members of Committees (Membership, Finance/Fundraising, Newsletter, 25th Reunion, etc.).
The Board voted unanimously to name Guy Seymour chair of the 25th Reunion Committee.
III. MEMBERSHIP Mike Rossi is working on assembling a list of alumni/ae and Network members, to be ready by the beginning of June, when it will be available to Allen as Chair of the Membership Committee (Allen's chairship voted unanimously at the meeting in November, 1995, when we signed the incorporation documents).
Candidates for membership will be sent a mailing over Bobbie and Herb's signatures, announcing the formation of NMTP, soliciting paid membership, inviting to the Fall Convocation, and flagging the 1997 25th reunion. The mailing will include a membership form. David will prepare a draft of the form.
We took another look at the proposed dues, and the Board voted unanimously for the following initial dues structure: Fellows: $100; Organizations: $200; Students: $15; Community members: $25 (Individual adjustments for all membership categories to be arranged by the Finance Committee).

MINUTES - NOVEMBER 1, 1995 PROFESSIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE'S TASK FORCE ON INCORPORATION
Attendance: Eugene Givens, Herb Joseph, Leon Nicks, Mike Rosenthal, David Trimble. This historic meeting marked the transition to incorporation, as Leon Nicks (Vice President), Melvin Rosenthal (Treasurer), and David Trimble (Clerk) added their signatures to the signatures of K.Dawkins-Brickhouse (President), Kermit Crawford (Director), Adriana Rodriguez (Director), and Allen Brown (Director) on the Articles of Organization of The Network for Multicultural Training in Psychology, Inc. David Trimble filed the papers with the Secretary of the Commonwealth on November 3, 1995; the effective date for NMTP's incorporation is November 6, 1995. Please note that the Articles of Organization were revised at the Secretary's office, as follows: The parenthetical elaboration of our official name, The Network for Multicultural Training in Psychology, i.e., (The MTP Network), was deleted. We can only have one official name. Herb provided a cash donation of $35 for the filing fee. Also, at the meeting, we made a final language change in the By-Laws, allowing a range of three months before the end of the fiscal year to convene the Annual Meeting.
On receipt of these minutes, Mike is to open a bank account and file an Application for Employer Identification Number (IRS Form SS-4).
The clock is now running; Directors should be familiar with the requirements of the official NMTP year. The next (and first official) Board meeting will be called once David and Mike have done some preliminary work on the next priority, i.e., filing for 501 (c) (3) Federal tax-exempt status. At the Board meeting, we will work together on a task list, which will include a three-year budget projection.
We noted that the current Board, which remains until the next (and first) election, does not contain the required community member. We will seek to include a community member informally until that election.
The following tasks precede the first Annual Meeting, to be scheduled within three months of the end of the fiscal year, the last day of June: Constituting Committees. David will head the Newsletter Committee, Allen the Membership Committee, Mike the Finance Committee. Setting annual dues. We will formally vote on the following consensus from this meeting: Fellow $50; Organization $95; Student $15; Community member $5. Developing a Membership Directory. Holding a Board election. Organizing and convening the Annual Meeting, to be announced in the Newsletter. Printing stationery. David will ask Jodie Kliman to work on an NMTP logo.
Organizing a kickoff public event to celebrate incorporation; we are thinking of a midwinter reception at the new Psychology Department offices to be established in the Dowling Building.

IRS DECLARES NMTP TAX-EXEMPT
After filing our application in November, 1996, for status as a tax-exempt nonprofit organization as described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, NMTP received a letter dated February 8, 1997, from the IRS, granting us provisional status as a publicly supported organization through June 30, 2000. Provided that we continue to conduct our business as described in the application, the IRS will then make a determination as to whether to establish our status as a publicly supported organization, or as a private foundation.
The letter states, "contributions to you are deductible by donors beginning November 6, 1995;" this is as provided in Section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code. Donors may count their contributions as charitable donations to a publicly supported organization through June 30, 2000, until final IRS determination. Our initial reading of the documents suggests that membership dues do not constitute "contributions;" we hope to clarify this matter soon. Check with your professional tax advisor as to whether or not you may appropriately claim dues payments as business expenditures. Please note that, for contributions larger than $250, you will need "contemporaneous documentation" from NMTP to claim the charitable contribution for tax purposes.

MEMBERS TO ELECT TWO DIRECTORS

This April, NMTP Fellows and Community Members will be voting to fill two vacancies on the Board of Directors. The Board has nominated Kathleen Gibney, Takako Salvi, Linda Son, and Cathy Wong (who is running as a Community Member). These will be the first elected Directors; the members of the original Board (who had constituted the Professional Advisory Committee of the Center for Multicultural Training) established the Corporation and wrote the By-Laws. All seats on the Board will be filled by election by 1999; Directors serve for three years. The Board elects its Officers (President, Vice President, Treasurer, Clerk), who hold office for one year.
The Board meets on a schedule determined by the current priority tasks of the organization, anywhere from twice a month to once every several months. Since incorporation in November, 1995, NMTP has applied for and achieved nonprofit status with the Internal Revenue Service, recruited NMTP members, and convened the November, 1996, initial gathering of the Network. The Membership Committee has submitted the initial list of candidates for Membership to the Board for its vote, and is working on formal procedures for maintaining a directory of members. The Newsletter Committee has started producing NMTP Notes. The Finance/Fundraising Committee has kept track of membership dues, and disbursed monies for operating expenses and to support enterprises consistent with the purposes of the organization, as follows: "Education, training, research, consultation, dissemination of expert knowledge, public advocacy, raising funds, and disbursing funds in furtherance of the competent practice of multicultural psychology" NMTP was a sponsor of the 1996 conference of the Graduate Students for Multiculturalism in Mental Health, Living in Two Worlds: Biculturalism and its Implications for Clinical Practice."
The By-Laws require the Board to carry out activities designed for maximum accountability to and participation from the membership. All Minutes of Board Meetings must be published in the Newsletter. Dues changes, special assessments, and changes in By-Laws are by referendum of Fellows and Community Members (who are empowered as voting members). These referenda can be initiated by the Board, or by one-fifth of voting members. The Board is responsible for distributing arguments from proponents and opponents of referendum questions along with the ballot. Either the Board, or one-fifth of voting members, can nominate candidates for Director. The Board is obliged to convene an Annual Meeting of the Membership, which includes review of the Financial Report, a process of self-evaluation (remember the old MTP/CMTP network assemblies?), and determination of the organization's priorities for the ensuing year, to be published in the next Newsletter.
Current priorities for the organization are as follows: First, to develop a robust Finance/Fundraising Committee, with members ready for the work involved in developing and implementing fundraising strategies, and establishing effective procedures for disbursement of funds to support activities consistent with our mission of furthering the competent practice of multicultural psychology. Second, to work with the Reunion Committee for the spring, 1997, combined NMTP Annual Meeting and 25th Reunion of the Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology.
Only Fellows and Community Members "in good standing " are eligible to vote for Director. We know that many of you have yet to get around to sending in your application with dues payment. The Executive Committee of the Board has decided to extend the deadline for closing the membership for this, our first election. We will certify the last candidates for membership April 12. Please be sure to get your application and payment to us right away, so you will be eligible to vote. We will distribute ballots April 19. Kathleen Gibney and Cathy Wong have prepared the following statements in support of their candidacies:
Kathleen Cronin Gibney: I would like you to consider me for th Board of Directors of the Network for Multicultural Training in Psychology, Inc. My belief is that we, as psychologists trained in diversity, need to provide the same opportunity to as many future professionals as possible. It is also important, I believe, that we continue to do research, strive to educate our peers and the general population about cultural influences, and to help raise funds to accomplish these crucial goals. The Network offers an excellent arena in which we can take time to support and acknowledge the work of so many who fight each day to provide cultural awareness and diverse psychological practices. My life, and the life of my family, vicariously, have been positively altered through the caring and professional people involved with the Network. Being an active Board member would give me an opportunity to repay some of the debt I feel toward the opportunities I received. Presently, I've been working with the Newsletter Committee (a great group of hard workers) and getting a flavor of the difference we can make.
My doctorate was attained at Northeastern University after my internship at BCH in 91-92. I have been working in New Hampshire, teaching in Boston and New Hampshire, and providing community support through the Disaster Response Team of the Red Cross, and local volunteer disaster response teams. Whenever possible, I work toward encouraging others to dispense competent multicultural information and practice. My positive energy, I believe, would be a benefit to the organization, and as always, I am sure I would learn and grow with the opportunity to serve. Thank you for your consideration.
Catherine Wong - Aloha, my name is Catherine Wong and I am eagerly submitting my name for nomination to the NMTP Board of Directors.
I have spent my life's work in the field of multicultural counseling and education.I was raised on the island of Hawai'i and grew up with the dramatic storytelling of my great grandmothers and other extended family. Their varied voices have continued to instill the importance and value of protecting and supporting the knowledge and practice of understanding others on the basis of race, gender and class.
Currently and for the last 14 years, I am a school counselor and Pupil Support Service Team Leader for a Kindergarten ?8th grade school in Brookline. I specialize in doing individual, group and family work with students of color, students at risk and bilingual students. I consult with staff and have developed professional development institutes with regard to multicultural issues facing young adolescents. I run a mediation/conflict resolution class and small group seminars for the upper grade students and teachers. I supervise a comprehensive program of school and community based master level and doctorate level interns. My goals are to reach out to these students and to the diverse community in a proactive and constructive way. Since Spring of '96 to now, I am on the faculty at UMASS Boston, in the Graduate School of Education; Dept. of Counseling and School Psychology. I teach "Perspectives in Cross Cultural Counseling." I have truly enjoyed working with and learning from my graduate students. Sharing my knowledge ad expertise through the years has been extremely rewarding and inspiring.
I am active in the Asian and Pacific Islander community and have done extensive consultation and workshops through the Asian American Resource Workshop in Boston's Chinatown. I have also been active in the media portrayal of multicultural issues through serving as a multicultural editor for DC Heath Text Book company and as reviewer and writer for PBS, WGBH. I also consult for The World of Difference Program and for Empowerment Workshops under the direction of Dr. Patricia Arredondo.
The experience of being on this board would afford me the opportunity to expand my knowledge and advocacy skills within a wider range of committed professionals. I look forward to collaborating and contributing to an organization whose mission is closely aligned with my professional and personal goals. I welcome the opportunity and see the need to form partnerships with a broader range of professionals in the field of multicultural counseling and psychology as we continue to grow in our research and practice.

FOUNDING MEMBERS CERTIFIED
On March 5, 1997, the Board of Directors voted to approve the following original members of NMTP:
FELLOW: Michael Abruzzese, Ph.D., Anne Ashmore-Hudson, Ph.D. (Poussaint), Steve Bachrach, Psy.D., Mari C. Bennasar, Psy.D., Deborah Ridley Brome,Ph.D., Allen Brown, J.D., Ph.D., Kermit Crawford, Ph.D., Victor De La Cancela, Ph.D., M.P.H., Brunilda DeLeon, Ed.D., John Derbort, Ph.D., Michael Dixon, Dorothy Frauenhofer, Ed.D., Rita Dudley-Grant, Ph.D., Kathleen Gibney, Ph.D., Betsy McAllister Groves, LICSW, Herbert M. Joseph, Ph.D., M.P.H., Jodie Kliman, Ph.D., Stephen Lawrence, Ph.D., Orlando B. Lightfoot, M.D., Roxana Llerana-Quinn, Ph.D., Alice LoCicero, Ph.D., Dyanne P. London, Ph.D., David McGill, Psy.D., Donna Moores, M.D., T. Leon Nicks, Ph.D., Ena V. Nuttall, Ed.D., Lisa Porché-Burke, Ph.D., A. Michael Rossi, Ph.D., Takako Salvi, Ph.D., Ester Shapiro, Ph.D., Linda Son, David Trimble, Ph.D., Jean Wilkinson, Ph.D.
COMMUNITY MEMBER: Reginald Cagle, Louisa P. Howe, Ph.D.
STUDENT MEMBER: Andrea Paula Bleichmar, Wanda Ivette Camacho-Maron, Maria M. Del Rio, Dana Karasaki, Alicia Lucksted, Guerda Nicolas, Maria José Perez, John Rosario-Perez, Carl E. Skeene, Jr.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBER: Massachusetts Psychological Association (Sharon O'Meara), Philadelphia Child Guidance Center (Jermome M. Gibbs, Ph.D.), Westwood-Pembroke Health System (Mark Bukuras, Ph.D.)