Serving on the Executive Board of the Council of Community provides an opportunity to gain a fuller perspective on training issues in community research and action. Members serve a three-year term on the board during which time they have a chance to become familiar with a wide variety of issues and to make intensive efforts and hopefully progress on several. More specifically, serving as a board member involves the following set of activities: 

1. Keeping in touch with the program directors you represent on a regular basis to discuss training issues in community research and action. Although this has sometimes been more honored in the breach than the observance, it is crucial to the long term health of the council as an organization. Three or four phone calls or letters a year to each director you represent would be a good baseline level of activity.

2. Attending two or three meetings a year of the Executive Board of the Council. The Board holds a mid-winter meeting. The Council pays board members’ travel expenses for the midwinter meeting. The Executive Board also meets at the Biennial Conference on Community Research and Action, and at a minimum have a conference call meeting in the years in which there is not a Biennial Conference. The council does not have the resources to pay Executive Board travel expenses for these meetings and encourages board members to find other sources of support.

3. Providing leadership on one to three major projects each year. These projects could be (a) becoming the council’s expert on an important issue like AIDS and community research and action training and disseminating information through an article in the division’s newsletter, or (b) organizing a mini-conference on training in community research and action, or conducting a survey of all members on particular topics.

4. Working on smaller tasks on an ongoing basis. These include tasks like conducting a membership drive or organizing an APA or regional convention program on training issues.

5. Including council members in projects and activities

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