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From the Chair: Lisa Mahon, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA
 Your generosity of giving to the Education and
Scholarship Fund allowed the Group Psychotherapy Foundation (GPF)
to provide 75 scholarships for the 2008 Institute and Annual
Meeting in Washington, DC. We hope to be able to meet and exceed
this for the 2009 Annual Meeting, to be held February 16-21 in
Chicago. The Education and Scholarship Fund covers the
direct cost for program sustainability for all the education and
scholarship programs. But it takes your gifts to be able to do
this. It is through your donations to the GPF’s Education and
Scholarship Fund that the scholarship recipients are given the
opportunity to experience the expertise, training, and networking
our organization offers at the Annual Meeting. In return, these
scholarship recipients bring us new ideas about group, energize
our organization, and go on to provide the group care that their
clients need and deserve.
Your donations have the power to impact the lives and
the group work of these students and new professionals. Trish
Cleary, LCPC-MFT, CGP, FAGPA, and Phyllis Cohen, PhD, PsyD, CGP,
FAGPA, Co-Chairs of the GPF Scholarship and Awards Committee, have
provided their direction and vision for the scholarship program, as
well as the launching the Group Psychotherapy Foundation’s “Honor
Your Mentor Program.” (See the Fall 2008 issue of Group Assets.)
In addition, there is an expansion of the Local
Scholarship fundraising, initiated by Jeffrey Hudson, MEd,
LPC, CGP, FAGPA, for the 2007 Annual Meeting held in Austin and
continued under the leadership of Steven Van Wagoner, PhD, CGP,
FAGPA, for the 2008 Annual Meeting. Darryl Pure, PhD, ABPP, CGP,
will chair the 2009 Local Chicago Scholarship Committee. This is an
impressive grass roots initiative and has greatly added to our
scholarship capacity. To see our culture of giving penetrate to the
local level is truly inspiring.
The GPF Annual Fund has been
renamed the Leadership Fund. One hundred percent of the
Tri-Organizational Board (this includes the AGPA, GPF, and National
Registry of Certified Group Psychotherapists boards) has agreed to
donate to the Leadership Fund, and all GPF Board members
contributed a minimum of $2,000 to this Fund. This Fund covers
all of the operating expenses of the organizations, supports
research grants, public information publications, publications of
our training manuals and the Core Battery, and supports special
projects such as the 9/11, Katrina, and China relief work.
What many people do not know is that their
contributions help GPF also help underwrite the Annual Meeting. A
cornerstone of this organization, we would not be able to continue
the Annual Meeting at its current level of excellence if it were not
for the Foundation subsidizing its operating expenses. Additionally,
the Educational Endowment Fund helps to endow workshops for our
Annual Conference. As a way to expand this program so more people
can contribute, we have initiated a Single-Year Event Sponsorship
that allows you to make a onetime contribution to sponsor one
program one year at the Annual Meeting. Check the Single-Event
Sponsorship box on the
Education and Scholarship Form.
The GPF also annually supports research projects
designed to broaden the available body of knowledge in
evidence-based group psychotherapy clinical practice. This year the
Group Psychotherapy Foundation awarded a study grant to Rebecca
MacNair-Semands, Ph.D., CGP, of the University of North Carolina at
Charlotte for her project “The Therapeutic Factors Inventory-S:
Developing a Better Understanding of Therapeutic Factors in Group
Psychotherapy.” Co-investigators in the project are: Anthony Joyce,
Ph.D.; John Ogrodniczuk, Ph.D.; and George Tasca, Ph.D.
All that you give makes a difference; no contribution
is too small. Your donations help to change lives. Help us continue
this work that I know means so much to all of you and
give a gift today to the Group
Psychotherapy Foundation.
The Group Psychotherapy
Foundation Mission Statement
The Group Psychotherapy Foundation is a
philanthropic organization that supports group psychotherapy education, research,
training, and information dissemination for the benefit of the public and professional
communities.
Among the Group
Psychotherapy Foundation’s most vital roles is the recognition
of excellence, promise, and vision by honoring those individuals
and groups who have demonstrated these qualities with Awards
and Scholarships.
The Foundation
also provides Research
Grants that support other initiatives that advance group
psychotherapy, group psychotherapy training, and publications.
A newsletter, Group Assets, highlighting the activities of
the Group Psychotherapy Foundation is published three times.
The newsletter also recognizes the Foundation’s many
generous donors.
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