Fellow Life Care Planners,
I write this with two decades invested in this specialty field, most of which I was involved in the inner workings of politics that exist in these types of situations. It is with that experience, that I urge each and every life care planner to complete this survey. This survey is vital for all IALCP members. The IALCP has a long-standing history to be the ONE Professional association that represents all life care planners, certified, not certified, all disciplines. Our professional association needs to remain in the forefront, not as an afterthought. It's obvious from the recent IARP board decision to replace the IALCP symposium with a virtual IARP conference and an in-person IARP conference later this fall, we are getting lost in the shuffle. Passive members eventually find themselves in an extinct association.
The IALCP symposium has been the "go to" for continuing education specific to life care planning with ALL breakouts being applicable to life care planning. There are easily over 2000 life care planners across the nation from the different disciplines and growing. Having this association that pulls the strengths of all disciplines allows us to learn from one another. Our field deserves nothing less than what it has built over the years. Life care planning is built on the premise of collaboration of all disciplines within the treatment team, so it's only natural our continuing education programs be the same thought process. Are there other professional associations for life care planners? Sure there are, and they provide excellent conferences, but they are skewed toward their specific disciplines. Why shouldn't our continuing education programs be without the potential skewing toward one discipline and promote the collaborative team approach that has built life care planning?
The Summit has allowed the field to build consensus statements, meant to provide structure and guidelines as to what the field of life care planning expects of itself and the application of this specialty with growth as the field has matured.
The IARP board announcement of their decision, which obviously appears to be a unilateral decision to do away with the symposium, definitely goes against the grain of promoting the field of life care planning for growth with new professionals and continuing education for the specialty of the field. The LACK of transparency as to why this decision was made on the part of the IARP Board either alone or somehow in association with ICHCC not pre-approving CEUs for CLCPs, is not only disappointing, but goes AGAINST life care planners, specifically CLCPs. (There are plenty of people who have submitted their CEUs for CLCP renewal that have been approved by ICHCC with the additional fee since that ordeal with the summit and symposium. So.... obviously, ICHCC does recognize the value of the educational formats of both the summit and IALCP symposium. There has obviously been a HUGE breakdown of communication somewhere for which the membership is unaware, but the membership is the MOST effected by this).
The IARP Board alone is NOT vested enough in what is lost here. IALCP has its own Board for its section and should be making the decisions that affect the IALCP events. It is time the Board lets the field of life care planning, specifically those paying association dues know what the heck is going on and we are allowed to remedy this obvious travesty. Otherwise, the value of our membership dues seems to be wasted.
Respectfully submitted,
Sherry
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Original Message:
Sent: 2/23/2023 9:26:00 PM
From: Dana Penilton
Subject: RE: Survey
I echo Tracy and Cloie, excellent job hitting relevant issues and giving life care planners the opportunity to not only contribute our voices but to better understand IALCP board of directors efforts on behalf of our life care planning community.
Question number 4: I also chose other and ranked my choices in the comments box. I also used comment boxes in other questions to highlight priorities and how I felt some options advance priorities asked in another question.
Get creative and let your voices be heard. IALCP board can only represent us when we let them know our thoughts, opinions, and priorities.
Regards,
Dana
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Sent: 2/23/2023 8:36:00 PM
From: Cloie B. Johnson
Subject: RE: Survey
I echo Tracy's comment - I chose the most important and the added my rank order in the box below - worked great!Hoping we get great participate with this brief but very important survey!Well done IALCP BOD - love the continued strategic planning.Thank you for asking for our opinion.Best,
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Original Message:
Sent: 2/23/2023 7:08:00 PM
From: Tracy Albee
Subject: Survey
Thank you for the survey recently provided by the IALCP BOD and i am sure it was done post haste due to some recent major issues our organization is going through. I wanted to point out that in Question #4, the issues cannot be ranked as requested. The only option is to check them off. There is an option to explain in the box, but there is no box for that particular question.
I hope everyone participates and works together to show a united front and demonstrate that IALCP is important to our profession.
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Tracy Albee
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