Student Advisory Board

Membership Committee

This committee helps to oversee student membership, recruit new members, and enhance membership. Two of the major tasks of this committee have been developing a student membership brochure and initiating the Campus Recruiters Program. The student membership brochure aims to increase general awareness of SPP as well as of the benefits of student membership. The Campus Recruiters Program was initiated in 2001 in an effort to connect SPP to universities across the nation. This program uses student recruiters (“Campus Representatives”) on college campuses to promote student membership in SPP via talks at local psychology meetings, emails regarding SPP events, and flyers regarding SPP membership benefits.

Duties of the Membership Committee:

• Communicate with Campus Representatives
• Identify individuals willing to promote SPP membership & encourage them to do so
• Expand student membership beyond psychology by providing information about SPP to medical/nursing students, social work students, child life students, etc.
• Explore other ways to increase student membership (emails, talk to training directors of pediatric psychology training programs)
• Distribute brochures
• Network & discuss student membership at conferences