How will ERPAs be integrated into ASPPA?
To encourage ERPAs who are non-ASPPA members to join and participate in ASPPA, it is important to grant them an equivalent ASPPA designation, but only upon membership with ASPPA. A new designation could have been created, but in reviewing the expected course content and learning objectives of ERPA, it was recognized that they closely resemble the current requirements for a QPA. Thus, the QPA designation will be granted to those members who have attained the ERPA designation. This means a non-credentialed member (or QKA) who completes the ERPA requirements before completing ASPPA’s credentialing requirements to otherwise become a QPA, would be granted the designation of QPA. As well, this means a nonmember who completes the ERPA requirements will be able to join ASPPA as a credentialed member by being granted the QPA designation upon approval of his or her membership application.
