Meeting Minutes 2.28.17

1. Role call: CariAnn L, Richard R, Nicole N, Josh L, Kristin C, Jillian C, Amanda W, Vanessa Z, Christine P, Liz A, Jamie D, Katherine C, Yasmin BK, Kristina MV, Cait R

2. Welcome

3. Review/approval of minutes – Nicole 1st, Kristin 2nd; approved unanimously

4. Welcome new members (14) – Thank you Liz for getting the word out!(X) - present

  • (X) Katherine Chavez – Tampa, PT student, graduate in 12 wks
  • (X) Yasmin Broomad Khosbacht – Jacksonville area, Brooks IP rehab
  • (X) Kristina Middleton Vaughn– in Orlando area, student PTA
  • (X) Cait Recksiek – Orlando, last semester student PTA, student director of PTA SIG
  • Also, currently absent: Kenneth Taylor, Scott Venkataraman, Audrey Werneke, Breanna Fields, Chanelle Sourou, Courtney Bolton, Rachel Passarella, Sarah Schultz, Sarah Gallagher, Ana Guzman

5. Guest: Linda Eargle – Bylaws Committee (unable to attend call, Jamie FPTA BOD, Director of Membership)

  • Looking for an EPSIG Member to be a part of the FPTA Bylaws Committee to be involved in reviewing and updating bylaws and making recommendations to the FPTA Board of Directors. Includes mentorship with Linda Eargle. Best for someone interested in reading/writing/wordsmithing.
  • If you are interested contact Jamie Dyson at .

6. Old Business

  • Student Conclave @ FGCU (Jan 13 &14)– Paula, Richard, Josh
  • Richard: 350 students present, many 1st and 2nd years, word out for EPSIG
  • Next event inJan 2018 at UCF
  • LAMP (Feb 14 & 15) – Richard, Paula, Josh, Amanda, CariAnn
  • FPTA opportunity to take leadership courses for 2 days from 8-5 PM
  • FPTA will sponsor to help with travel and housing
  • Josh: Grew a lot closer as a leadership group, promoted learning about self, what type of leadership are you, how to handle conflict, how to lead different types of people (ex. list guy, numbers person, immediate action), what information is needed to maximize buy-in?
  • Cari Ann: knowing communications style, knowing motivation style, knowing others expectations of communication/motivation, ability to address conflict, how to set vision and mission statement for self and groups involved in, identify personal and professional goals
  • CSM @ San Antonio (Feb 16-18) – Jamie, Amanda, CariAnn
  • Great learning and networking opportunities; 14,000 PTs in attendance
  • Advocacy Days (Feb 20 & 21) – Paula
  • FPTA will sponsor to help with travel and housing
  • Next event will be Nov 2017, not Thanksgiving
  • BIG/LITTLE Program problems
  • Originally mentorship tier; challenge that the number of new members exceeds the amount of engaged members
  • Growing faster than a big/little program allows
  • Idea of providing a survey allowing new members to be connected to a current leader and further distributing the mentor/mentees
  • How can we be more personal as mentors?
  • Like idea of someone in an area that can be contacted as a leader in that area
  • Josh: working on a survey monkey to gather those details to distribute people to appropriate leaders, working on making a resource list to allow people to progress into leadership positions, don’t want to lose a potential leader to overwhelming them with tasks
  • CariAnn: Allow building from small to larger tasks; be at the meetings when you can, email us when you can, all are happy to answer emails to stay on top of things

7. Tier Updates

  • Membership (Nicole Nichols) – Balance Challenge (#BalancewithEPSIG) winner
  • Ice Bucket challenge for ALS > EPSIG plank challenge > balance challenge supported by web on APTA site
  • Decreased participation to 10; people > 5 yrs of experience and non-members didn’t qualify
  • Amanda Williamson – WINNER! Free year membership to the FPTA
  • Should we continue the challenge? CariAnn would like to challenge people from fall>spring conference
  • If posted to Facebook is it automatically? Challenge with Instagram? Hashtags work better but continue to have challenge with public posts, not everyone has Twitter
  • Interested in helping with the next EPSIG social media challenge? #jumpintopracticewithEPSIG
    Contact Nicole at .
  • CariAnn: winning photo to be posted Facebook and congrats!
  • Mentorship (Amanda Williamson)– BIG/LITTLE program transition
  • Liz to help make survey monkey to help with big/little program transition
  • Kristin volunteers to assist
  • Professional Development (CariAnn Litz) – Journal Club update
  • Journal article club posting monthly, accessed in the forum
  • Can read as non-member, must be member to respond
  • Need volunteers: Christine for April, Nicole for May, Yasmin for June
  • Need more people to respond to monthly posts: Vanessa, Catherine
  • Leadership (Joshua Lewis) – FPTA Professional Association Leadership (PAL)mentorship program
  • 25 mentors signed up, 3 action items left to be taken care of
  • Sign up as mentor NOW, outside of EPSIG community
  • Go to About tab
  • Scroll to FPTA committees Leadership and MentoringPAL mentoring program
  • Scroll down for a “Click here” for more information
  • Box at the bottom that is a mentor application to get to survey monkey
  • Mentee button is not up yet
  • Spring conference will have presentation of “Fit Bucks” for info on student loan reimbursement, how to avoid mistakes, how to pay the least amount of money, how to lessen the burden
  • Networking (Jillian Carney) –twitter account, conversations w/EPSIG chapters in other states, opportunities for social media volunteers
  • Not a lot of updates, not on the twitter account, unable to use during CSM
  • Look over facebook stuff to see if items got transitioned over; would like to connect Facebook and Instagram - Liz
  • Please let Jillian to know if you are involved in conference or volunteer opportunities to boost engagement on twitter
  • Nicole: Haiti mission trip for PT, ST, OT looking for interested parties to educate a neuro stroke clinic and work with children in an orphanage and school; $200 in meds, $900 in room and board for a week, pay for own flight, last week in April, means on the website to help fund the trip

8. New Business

  • EPSIG Leadership Meeting (LATE March, week before spring conference) -
  • Need to review mission and vision statements
  • Look back on past year and forward to new changes
  • Google group meeting
  • Spring Conference in Lake Mary/Orlando (March 31-April 1)
  • Register before March 9th for Early Bird Pricing
  • EPSIG sponsored session with “Fit Bucks” financial advising (Sat @ 3PM) – Josh
  • EPSIG Meeting Sat @ 4 PM
  • Great place for medical errors course on Saturday
  • Looking for good representation at conference
  • Jamie: BOD meeting is on Friday and open to all members, only closed in executive session
  • Federal Advocacy Forum is the last weekend in March to meet with legislatures on therapy cap
  • Northern district has a ninja challenge coming up in May 20th at the Univ of St. Augustine
  • EPSIG group?
  • PT/PTA Program representatives (Jamie Dyson) – grad talks
  • Hope to distribute to EPSIG members to get involved with, already have PPT
  • CariAnn, UCF, April
  • Call will go out in next couple of weeks
  • Positions in FPTA available for EPSIG members – Richard Romies
  • No update, emailed Michelle today, communicating with Liz for updates
  • Bylaws committee has an opening
  • Always opportunities on the state membership committee
  • Nominating committee has a call out for positions, open until the end of March then the committee will contact the volunteer to obtain consent, photo, bio, and candidate statement, BOD does videos
  • Go to FPTA nomination on front page and nominate today button or banner

9. Questions/comments

10. Adjourn: Josh – 1st, Richard – 2nd; pass unanimously