NAPT GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS
ACTION ITEMS
NCCATA: National Coalition of Creative Arts Therapies Associations
NCCATA ASSOCIATIONS

 
NAPT GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS

This link is devoted to bringing you the most up-to-date national legislation affecting poetry therapists (and other creative arts therapists).

All members of NAPT and other creative arts therapists, please take note of suggested action steps so that you can get involved in shaping policy that directly or indirectly affects your work as a poetry therapist. Know what the current issues are and how you can contribute to shaping policy agenda.

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ACTION ITEMS:

Request from the Legislative Coordinator for information:

Linda Gantt, an art therapist who works with NCCATA as the Legislative Coordinator at the Federal level, is interested in hearing about any problems or issues creative arts therapists are having in their workplace, especially those regarding the funding of creative arts therapies positions. She can be reached at:

Linda Gantt, PhD, ATR-BC, HLM

Rt. 1, Lake O'Woods

Bruceton Mills, WV 26525

Phone/Fax: 304/379-3301

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NCCATA: National Coalition of Creative Arts Therapies

NCCATA is your national lobbying/advocacy group. NCCATA member organizations are NAPT (poetry/journal/bibliotherapy), ADTA (dance), AATA (art), AAMT (music), NADT (drama), and ASGPP (psychodrama). NCCATA represents its member organizations on policy issues facing all creative arts therapists.

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NCCATA has a new mission statement:

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NCCATA promotes openness:

• By expanding and supporting the benefits and access to the creative arts therapies as a therapeutic process with which to serve the public in a rapidly changing world.
   
• By providing adequate descriptions of the professionalism of the creative arts therapy field to the public, including information on education, training, credentialing, ethical standards and scope of practice.
   
• By organizing an annual meeting of the member creative arts associations, including, but not limited to: association presidents, presidents-elect or vice-presidents, and government affairs officers.
   
• By maintaining connections and communication with other fields with similar scopes of practice, including, but not limited to, the fields of medicine, rehabilitation, psychotherapy, education, and personal growth.

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NCCATA promotes merit:

• By monitoring human service legislation and credentialing issues that may affect the individual members of the creative arts organizations and the public they serve.
   
• By recommending both pro-active and reactive procedures that each member organization can take to their membership and the general public against restrictive legislation and credentialing issues.
   
• By exploring new paths for creative arts therapists to follow that will serve the publicâs needs better in our rapidly changing world.

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NCCATA promotes awareness:

• By encouraging the representatives of the organization to maintain a dialogue with their membership in order to consistently be in touch with and communicate their needs to NCCATA.
   
• By supporting the establishment of state creative arts therapies coalitions.

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NCCATA ASSOCIATIONS:

 
National Association for Poetry Therapy
c/o Diversified Management Services
525 S.W. 5th. Street, Suite A
Des Moines, Iowa 50309-4501
Tel: (515) 282-8192 Fax: (515) 282-9117
Web: www.poetrytherapy.org
Email: info@poetrytherapy.org

American Society of Group Psychotherapy & Psychodrama, Inc.
301 N. Harrison Street, Suite 508
Princeton, NJ 08540
Tel: 609/452-1339
Fax: 609/936-1659
Email: asgpp@asgpp.org
Web: www.asgpp.org

American Art Therapy Association, Inc.
1202 Allanson Road
Mundelein, IL 60060
Tel: 847/949-6064
Fax: 847/566-4580
Email: arttherapy@ntr.net
Web: www.arttherapy.org

American Association for Music Therapy, Inc.
8455 Coleville Rd, Suite 1000
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Tel: 301/589-3300
Fax: 301/589-5175
Email: info@musictherapy.org
Web: www.musictherapy.org

American Dance Therapy Association, Inc.
2000 Century Plaza, Suite 108
Columbia, MD 21044
Tel: 410/997-4040
Fax: 410/997-4048
Email: adta@aol.com
Web: www.cti.net/ADTA/

For more information about NCCATA and its constituent member organizations and current issues of "Creative License," the Government Affairs notes for NCCATA, access the NCCATA Web Page at: www.NCCATA.org.