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Fellow Kansas Psychologists,

We are quickly arriving at the end of 2022, and I wanted to share with you a few accomplishments and hopefully some exciting news.

Let’s start with the exciting news—we have decided to lower rates for Early Career Psychologists (up to 10 years post-graduate), first time members, post-docs, and Full Members. This felt like the perfect time to address the financial burden we are all adjusting to since the pandemic by offering our membership at a lower rate. Your membership fees will have some special benefits this year that includes:

Reduced fees for our Spring and Fall conferences
Free monthly CEU starting January 2023 (stay tuned for exact dates, TBD)
Inclusion in the “Doctor Finder” profile on the KPA website, a service used by fellow members, KPA staff, and the public to locate referrals.
Access to our Mentorship Program, either as a mentee or mentor
Membership listserv to communicate with colleagues for purposes of networking, referrals, and information sharing
Updates by state licensing board, state legislative efforts, and professional endeavors
In-person advocacy at the federal level in conjunction with APA Services, Inc.

In 2022, your KPA board was hard at work advocating for the benefit of all psychologists while taking care to speak on behalf of psychologists working in Kansas and the communities we serve. Our advocacy efforts included:

Improving integrated care rates and structure
Maintaining and increasing reimbursement rates through CMS, with heavy emphasis on telehealth services
Addressing parity issues mainly with increasing federal and state oversight and response
Maintaining and increasing federal funds for training, access, and infusing the principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), especially in rural areas
Improving community and school-based access issues

Your continued membership allows various board members to attend and participate in advocacy summits where we talk with federal legislators from our state about our state's mental health needs.

In 2023, we welcome some new board members that will be bringing years of experience and expertise to KPA.

Dr. Shawna Wright, PhD, will be joining our board as the Rural Health Coordinator. Dr. Wright has spent many years improving access and care to rural Kansas. This past year she was presented with the APA Excellence in Rural Psychology Award.
Dr. Danielle Johnson, PhD, will be taking over the role of President. She has pulled double duty as our Diversity Committee Chair and President-Elect this past year. As our Diversity Committee Chair, she was awarded the Practice Leadership Conference Diversity Delegate Fellowship and was nominated again for PLC in 2023. As our President-Elect, she helped establish our regular CEU offerings and secured our speakers for our fall conference (which has been rescheduled for 1/12/23 with the CEO of APA, Dr. Arthur Evans, as our keynote—get registered!). We are excited about her leadership in 2023!
Finally, Dr. Kara Nishimuta, PhD, will be taking over as our Diversity Committee Chair and we look forward to what she will bring to the position.

Looking forward to 2023!

Jason Malousek, PsyD (President 2022)

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Associate Member $90.00 (USD), prorated to $82.50 (USD) Subscription period: 1 year, on: January 1st No automatically recurring payments Persons with a minimum of a Master's degree in psychology or a field primarily psychological in nature, who do not meet the requirements for Full Member or Student member. Associate Members may serve on committees, but may not vote, or hold elective or appointive office. Associate Members shall achieve voting privileges after five consecutive years as an Associate Member.

Early Career - $100.00 (USD) Subscription period: 1 year, on: January 1st No automatically recurring payments Requires minimum of a doctoral degree in psychology or in an area primarily psychological in content. Early Career members shall be entitled to all rights and privileges of the Association, including voting, holding elective office or appointed office.

Full Member $200.00 (USD), prorated to $183.33 (USD) Subscription period: 1 year, on: January 1st Automatic renewal (recurring payments) Persons shall have a minimum of a doctoral degree in psychology or in an area primarily psychological in content. Full Members shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges of the Association including voting, holding elective office or appointive office.

MOPA Reciprocal Membership Dues (ECP) - $20.00 (USD) Subscription period: 1 year, on: January 1st No automatically recurring payments Be aware that this process of having membership with both MOPA and KPA has changed. In prior years you could purchase your membership for both organizations through KPA or MOPA. That is no longer the case. You now need to purchase your membership from each organization independently. What has remained the same is that you continue to receive a discounted rate on the 2nd membership. If you live in KS you would purchase a KPA membership on our site and then to go to http://www.mopaonline.org/ to purchase your MOPA membership. If you live in MO, you would purchase a MOPA membership on their site and then come here to purchase the ($40) membership with KPA.

MOPA Reciprocal Membership Dues (FULL) - $40.00 (USD) Subscription period: 1 year No automatically recurring payments Be aware that this process of having membership with both MOPA and KPA has changed. In prior years you could purchase your membership for both organizations through KPA or MOPA. That is no longer the case. You now need to purchase your membership from each organization independently. What has remained the same is that you continue to receive a discounted rate on the 2nd membership. If you live in KS you would purchase a KPA membership on our site and then to go to http://www.mopaonline.org/ to purchase your MOPA membership. If you live in MO, you would purchase a MOPA membership on their site and then come here to purchase the ($40) membership with KPA.

NEW Associate Member - $45.00 (USD) Subscription period: 1 year, on: January 1st No automatically recurring payments If you are an Associate Member who is new to KPA, your first year of dues is discounted to $45. Associate member qualifications noted above apply.

NEW Full Member - $150.00 (USD) Subscription period: 1 year, on: January 1st No automatically recurring payments If you are new to KPA, your first year of dues is discounted to $150. Full member qualifications noted above apply. ECP discounts do not apply.

Pre-Licensed/Post Doc Member - $75.00 (USD) Subscription period: 1 year, on: January 1st Automatic renewal (recurring payments) Persons who are 1-2 years postgraduate, working toward permanent license

Student Member - $15.00 (USD) Subscription period: 1 year, on: January 1st Automatic renewal (recurring payments) Persons working toward a graduate or undergraduate degree in a program primarily psychological in content at a college or university. Student Members may serve as voting members of committees. They may not hold elective or appointive office, except to serve as the Student Representative to the Board of Governors.