PES Announces Three Recipients of 1997 Grant Awards Program

New York, NY, March 1998 - Professional Examination Service (PES) is pleased to announce three recipients of the 1997 Grant Awards Program. Established in 1994, the program makes available a total of $15,000 annually to support credentialing stakeholders in educational or scientific activities that contribute significantly to the development, use, evaluation, and enhancement of professional credentials.

For the 1997 program, PES elected to fund activities in three main categories: educational meetings that bring together a variety of credentialing stakeholders; non-commercial publications on credentialing policy, intended for a broad spectrum of credentialing stakeholders; and research studies that explore the meaning and value of professional credentials to key stakeholder groups.

The three grants awarded for 1997 are as follows:

Federation of Associations of Regulatory Boards (FARB) - to assist in the planning and promotion of the third FARB Leadership Conference scheduled for July 1998. The conference will provide a forum for leaders from licensing and certification bodies in both the U.S. and Canada to discuss current credentialing issues.

National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy - to fund the development and implementation of the Fifth Annual Workshop for Occupational Therapy, scheduled for September 1998 in Washington, D.C. The workshop will bring together regulatory agency members to discuss and learn about emerging regulatory and policy issues.

Nebraska Department of Regulation and Licensure - to hold a public forum aimed at gathering information from health care practitioners and consumers, as a means of evaluating the state's current credentialing system. The findings will be used to develop a streamlined model credentialing process for use throughout the state.

Applications for the 1997 Grant Awards Program were judged by a distinguished panel of members of the PES Board of Directors: Gordon H. DeFriese, Ph.D., Director of the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Paul A. Hattis, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., Senior Medical Consultant, Office of Planning, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston; and Barbara S. Plake, Ph.D., Director of the Oscar and Luella Buros Center for Testing and the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Professional Examination Service is a not-for-profit testing organization whose mission is to promote the understanding and use of sound credentialing practices. PES achieves its mission by providing comprehensive services and making contributions to credentialing stakeholders in the areas of assessment practice, educational activities, scientific research, and policy development.

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