The CPA wishes to thank all members and affiliates who have taken the time to provide their input on our next strategic plan in response to our open consultation and call for feedback. The feedback has been a crucial component of the development process; it has been impactful and central to meaningful discussion amongst the Board and we made adjustments accordingly.
We have received several communications today expressing concern that the CPA is eliminating goals related to EDIA and Reconciliation from our next Strategic Plan. We would like to communicate to all our membership that the CPA remains committed to addressing equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility, as well as being accountable to calls to action regarding reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples. Elimination of EDIA and Reconciliation from the Strategic Plan was never considered by the Board. Rather, early considerations focussed on how to more deeply incorporate and embed EDIA and Reconciliation within our next Strategic Plan so that EDIA and Reconciliation would be ingrained in all that we do. The valuable feedback we received on our early proposal allowed us to strengthen our plan by considering how to include AND strengthen goals about EDIA and reconciliation within the CPA’s next Strategic Plan
The Board is continuing its work on the next strategic plan and we look forward to sharing it with our membership when it is finalized. What we can share now is that CPA’s next strategic plan will envision a society that values and applies psychological science in the benefit of persons, communities, organizations, and peoples. It will serve the public and its membership by advancing psychological science, practice, and education through research, advocacy, and collaboration. It will be a voice, supporter, advocate, and promoter of psychology all while supporting and promoting a profession, discipline, and association in which all are welcomed, included, and represented, and that continues to be accountable to reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.