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Greetings to all members. Our Board meeting this month centered around the announcement that Cecilia Peck will be stepping down in 2022. I am sure I share with all of you what a huge loss and change this will be for NCP. Cecilia has been the backbone of NCP for years and her stepping away into retirement, although anticipated for some time, takes your breath away. We all know how much she has done for NCP and how difficult it will be to replace her. Needless to say, the Board did begin discussions about the importance of creating a timeline for the coming year. There is now an increased need to complete policy and procedures regarding financial reporting; bylaw changes, educational direction(s); programming and marketing; and staff reorganization before we can set up a steering committee to begin a recruitment process. The Board will be broken down into small task groups to work on these issues and at the same time identify the role we want our new Executive Director to hold.

A task force, including ourselves and five other California Psychoanalytic Institutes, has hired a lobbyist to help us negotiate with the BPPE regarding our exemption status. Discussions between the task force, the lobbyist, and BPPE will extend over the next seven months. All the Institutes are sharing the cost of the effort. We are due to resubmit our application to the BPPE later this year so we are hopeful that they will come to a decision before that time.

I submitted the names and short biographies of Marie Briehl and Kato van Leeuwen Pomer for the Pioneer Women in Psychoanalysis Project at APsaA. Look for an article about this project in upcoming issues of the magazine.

Jill, Cheryl and their team have worked extremely hard on completing work for the ACPEinc site visit coming up. Thank you to all of you for the Training Manual that was created and the application that required many hours of defining policy and procedures.

Paulene Popek