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by Liliana Ramos, Past President

In 2024, SCV-CAMFT opted-in to join the CAMFT Law and Ethics (L&E) Share Program, a revenue model designed to help Chapters increase their income while lightening the workload of chapter volunteers in creating an ethics program. It is meant to streamline time and resources while providing more CE opportunities for CAMFT & Chapter members, and increase Chapter membership recruitment opportunities.

We did so well last year that we decided to opt-in again this year (2025) and use CAMFT’s L&E Share Program as our main Law and Ethics offering.

How does it help the Chapter and its members financially? CAMFT charges $65 for the L&E webinars. SCV-CAMFT members get a $5 discount so you only pay $60. The chapter receives $36 for each registration (60% of the amount) and CAMFT keeps the $24.

How does CAMFT know which Chapter to give money to? Each Chapter sends a membership list to CAMFT so they can verify the Chapter’s membership.

What happens if you’re a member and you don’t get the $5? Please call us to see if we can help you fix this.

What does our Chapter need to do? We have to market the events on four different platforms and four different dates. In addition, CAMFT provides all of the marketing/advertising slides which means our social media and website teams do not have to worry about creating content and design!  It's a win for everyone because CAMFT gets to further their mission of helping Chapters and educating members and it’s a win for the Chapter in increasing membership and revenue (which finds its way back to the members through membership benefits.) It’s also a win for you and new members because you get a $5 discount.

The remaining topics this year are as follows:

• June 6 – “Mastering Mandated Elder and Dependent Reporting”
• September 19 – “Working with Minor Clients: Prepare for Success and Avoid the Pitfalls”
• November 14 – “Updates and Resources for Medi-Cal Providers”

If you have ideas of what the L&E topics would be helpful for you and others, please let us know! Thank you for your support!

The Santa Clara Valley chapter was represented at the 2025 CAMFT Chapter Leadership Conference on February 7-8, 2025, at the Hilton San Jose, CA.

L to R: Amanda Cortez (president-elect), Rosario Puga Dempsey (director of sponsorship), Marté Matthews (director of programs), Ursula Jorgensen (president), Kassie Butterworth (director of social media), Alex Mackenzie (director of support groups and mentorship), Liliana Ramos (past president)

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A few new board members will be joining the SCV-CAMFT team in 2025. We are happy to introduce them to you!

Gia Reyes, LMFT
Director at Large - Newsletter

Elizabeth OjedA, AMFT
Director of Membership

Rosario Puga-DempseY, LMFT
Director of Sponsorship

Brandon Hoshiko, LMFT
Director of Technology

Kassidy ButterwortH, LMFT, ATR-P
Director of Social Media

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back to September 2024 newsletter  
This is a support group for therapists who are 55+ and are retired, thinking about retiring, or contemplating a mid-life transition. The mission of this support group is to provide an opportunity for personal and/or professional growth in our later years.

This group is for licensed and retired chapter members who want to:

• Seek and provide support
• Exchange ideas
• Explore challenges
• Pursue professional and personal growth

This group will be facilitated by Alex MacKenzie and Liliana Ramos. The group will typically meet the first Monday of each month from 5-6 pm. We will meet online. To register for the group, go to https://scv-camft.org/Events.

We hope that you come and join us at our first support group on October 7th at 5 pm.