PA Psychological Association

08/19/2025

Support Mental Health and the Future of Psychology in Pennsylvania

Friends, colleagues, and advocates for mental health — the Pennsylvania Psychological Foundation’s Grand Raffle is officially underway, and we invite you to be part of it.

A successful raffle in 2025 will allow us to provide $5,000 educational awards to 8–10 doctoral psychology students across Pennsylvania in 2026. Your support will directly impact the future of mental health care in our state and beyond.

Now is the time to act — don’t miss your chance to make a difference.

Click here to purchase your ticket:
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Thank you for your generosity and commitment to advancing psychological education and care.

08/13/2025

Support Mental Health and the Future of Psychology in Pennsylvania

Friends, colleagues, and advocates for mental health — the Pennsylvania Psychological Foundation’s Grand Raffle is officially underway, and we invite you to be part of it.

A successful raffle in 2025 will allow us to provide $5,000 educational awards to 8–10 doctoral psychology students across Pennsylvania in 2026. Your support will directly impact the future of mental health care in our state and beyond.

Only 185 raffle tickets remain.

Now is the time to act — don’t miss your chance to make a difference.

Click here to purchase your ticket:
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Thank you for your generosity and commitment to advancing psychological education and care.

07/16/2025

Support the Pennsylvania Psychological Foundation and purchase your chance to win in this year's Exclusive Grand Raffle! There are only 200 tickets left! Use the QR code or the link below to purchase your chance to win today! https://e.givesmart.com/events/Js0/i/_All/vNUp/?search=

Drawing details:
- The drawing will be held on the next business day after the final ticket is sold.
- Winner will be contacted by phone - no need to be present to win.
- Must be 18 years or older to enter.

06/30/2025

Support the Pennsylvania Psychological Foundation and purchase your chance to win in this year's Exclusive Grand Raffle! Only 212 tickets left to be sold! Use the QR code or the link below to purchase your chance to win today! https://e.givesmart.com/events/Js0/i/_All/vNUp/?search=

06/20/2025

At , we were honored to hear from Dr. Derek Phillips, PsyD, MSCP, ABMP, in a powerful keynote address:
“Prescriptive Authority for Psychologists: Increasing Access to Care.”

Dr. Phillips, a board-certified medical psychologist and clinical neuropsychologist, as well as Executive Director of the APA-designated MSCP program at Fairleigh Dickinson University, shared his firsthand experience as a prescribing psychologist in Illinois.

His message was clear:
✅ RxP is safe, evidence-based, and urgently needed
✅ Prescribing psychologists are already making a life-saving difference in underserved areas
✅ Pennsylvania can and must follow suit

📣 Let’s keep the momentum going. Support HB 1000 to expand access to mental health care in PA.

🖊️ Sign the petition: change.org/p/empower-qualified-pennsylvania-psychologists-to-prescribe-psychotropic-medication
📨 Contact your legislator: palegis.us/find-my-legislator

06/19/2025

Honoring Juneteenth: A Day of Reflection and Progress
Today, we commemorate Juneteenth—the oldest nationally celebrated recognition of the end of slavery in the United States. It's a day to honor the resilience, contributions, and history of Black Americans, and to reflect on how we, as association professionals, can continue to build inclusive, equitable communities within our organizations and beyond.
Let’s use today not only to remember, but to act—with intention, empathy, and purpose.

06/11/2025

Learn more about the collaboration between New Jersey and Pennsylvania: https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:ebc089cd-caed-4273-b37d-9c6e7cee2df1?viewer%21megaVerb=group-discover

Psychologists in PA and NJ are teaming up to expand access to life-saving mental health care. Want to help?

🗣️ PA Residents: Ask your legislator to co-sponsor HB 1000�🔍 Find your rep here�: https://www.palegis.us/find-my-legislator

Sample message: �"I urge you to co-sponsor HB 1000 to give qualified psychologists the tools to address our state’s mental health crisis. Patients can't afford to wait."

📄 Sign the petition to support RxP in PA: https://www.change.org/p/empower-qualified-pennsylvania-psychologists-to-prescribe-psychotropic-medication

Let’s make mental health care more accessible — together.

06/11/2025

06/02/2025

It’s the start of a new week. Don't forget to take some time to take care of your mental health.

05/30/2025

📢 It’s time to act. House Bill 1000 could expand access to safe, effective mental health care by allowing specially trained psychologists to prescribe.

📝 Read the letter. Feel the urgency. Then find your PA legislator 🔗 palegis.us/find-my-legislator and ask them to cosponsor HB 1000.

✉️ Sample message you can send:
"As your constituent, I’m urging you to cosponsor HB 1000. With Pennsylvania facing a severe shortage of psychiatric care, empowering trained psychologists to prescribe under medical supervision is a safe, proven way to expand access. Please support this life-saving legislation."

🖊️ Together, we can close the gap.
📄 Sign the petition here: https://www.change.org/p/empower-qualified-pennsylvania-psychologists-to-prescribe-psychotropic-medication

05/28/2025

📣 The co-sponsorship letter for HB 1000 — which would allow specially trained psychologists to prescribe mental health medications — has just been distributed in the PA House.

This is a crucial step, but we need legislators to sign on as co-sponsors to keep the momentum going.

Find your PA Representative using this link:
🔗 https://www.palegis.us/find-my-legislator

👉 Sign the petition to support access and innovation in care:
change.org/p/empower-qualified-pennsylvania-psychologists-to-prescribe-psychotropic-medication

05/21/2025

Contact your state representative and urge them to co-sponsor HB 1000.

When mental health support is delayed, lives hang in the balance. Let’s make change possible.

🔗 And don’t forget to sign our petition to amplify the message:
change.org/p/empower-qualified-pennsylvania-psychologists-to-prescribe-psychotropic-medication