I opppose the proposed CACREP only standard as it penalizes future applicants who do not go to a CACREP school.  The Commonwealth is inadequately funding the Board and the result is a lack of staff able to review the current applicants.  Allowing an outside, private credentialing organization to do the work of the Commonwealth is a slippery slope which will allow all curriculum to be written and administered to a different standard than what is appropriate for the citizens of Virginia.

It will also hinder students of programs who do not wish to pay CACREP for their credentialing.  Having attended a non-CACREP school, my courses matched up directly with the CACREP standards but if this change goes forward, I would not have had the ability to be licensed and practice in Virignia.

In summary, I am against an outside organization imposing their rules upon the Commonwealth's duty to license and credential their mental health practioners.