 Executive Director Report
Chuck Stewart, Ph.D.
I want to welcome LAGPA members to the new year. LAGPA keeps growing and providing greater services to you.
As you all know, we implemented a major overhaul of our website this summer. Now, members go directly to the website to register and more. It
has streamlined our membership drive and will ultimately reduce our general overhead. At the same time we overhauled the website, we authorized our web host (Moonslice) to begin submitting our website to the major browsers each month. As such, the number of unique individuals visiting our website has quadrupled and the number of pages viewed has doubled. Now, over 12,000 unique individuals visit our website each month. I’m hearing from many of our members that contacts from potential clients have shot up.
We continue enhancing the website. Right now we are building in a discussion forum/bulletin board function. There will be a public and membership only function to the forums. This way members will be able to post events, workshops, and other notices for the general public, and also correspond between members. This will vastly improve communication between members and with the public. We’ll keep you advised when this is up and running.
Another future development with the website will be to handle conference a other events to accept registrations and payments. Hopefully that will be accomplished by the next Annual Conference.
Speaking of the Annual Conference, the 15th LAGPA Psychotherapy Conference co-sponsored by USC was a big success. Approximately 80 people attended the October 11 event. Jeanne Cordova gave an insightful speech about psychotherapy and gay activism in the early years of our civil rights movement. I’m honored to have personally known Jeanne for twenty years. This was our first event since LAGPA gained certification from APA as a Continuing Education provider. Now we need to complete the annual review so as to keep our good standing with APA.
Finally, we need to thank all our presenters, supporters and sponsors for the event. Without their support, the event would cost twice a much and not meet the needs of the LGBT community. Our next Conference will be held at Antioch University Los Angeles. Details will be announced soon. Chuck Stewart, Executive Director
Chuck Stewart, Ph.D.
Executive Director • |
