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News and Announcements:
NorCATA Board Meetings
All monthly meetings are 10:00-12:30pm and occur at Board Members' houses. If you are interested in attending, please contact us for locations.
Membership Drive
Now a paperless process! Visit our Membership page and follow the step by step instructions.
Contact membership@norcata.org with questions.
NorCATA Goes Green
In addition to the paperless membership drive, NorCATA has made the jump to electronic newsletters! Our Fall 2009 newsletter was our last paper mailing! Soon you will have online access to all NorCATA resources.
A Major Victory!
SB 788 was signed into law in October, bringing licensure for professional counselors to California! This will allow art therapists, who meet the qualifications, to achieve licensure if they are not eligible for the current MFT license.
Visit our Legislative Affairs page for more details.
Upcoming Events:
November 3rd-7th Sacramento, CA at the Hyatt Regency
American Art Therapy Association 2010 Conference "Art Therapy: Awakening Awareness"
Amy Rogers, President-Elect, and Deborah Sharpe, Director of Programs, have been busy with the Local Arrangements Committee, a dedicated group of local art therapists volunteering their time, energy and creativity to the development of the national art therapy conference.
Summer Workshop 2010
Summer Eco Art Workshop with Linda Chapman
Saturday, August 28th, 2010 from 10:30AM to 2:30PM
Art Therapy Institute of the Redwoods, MENDOCINO COUNTY
Watch for details!
NorCATA Archives: (coming soon)
The NorCATA archives will include past newsletters, workshop reviews, and more!
American Art Therapy Association Mentor Program:
To: Amy Rogers, President of the Northern California Art Therapy Association,
From: Jacky Martin, Mentor Committee Sub chair of the AATA Membership Committee
I am writing to ask for your help in promoting an important new membership initiative. As you may know, the American Art Therapy Association created the Mentor Program several months ago to expand its professional service offerings to our members. The Mentor Program is specifically focused on our Student and New Professional members to provide them with support and information from our Credentialed Professional, Professional and Retired Professional members.
We are in great need of mentors for our mentees. We already have an extensive waiting list of mentees seeking the wisdom, experience and expertise of our professional members. There are currently 2 potential mentees in your state. We also have a mentee waiting in Ghana.
To better understand what the Mentor Program process involves:
1. Go to www.americanarttherapyassociation.org.
2. Click on “Art Therapy Career Center”.
The last paragraph on the Art Therapy Career Center page has the information about the Mentor Program. Click on “please click here for more information on AATA’s Mentor Program”.
Here you will find a description of the Mentor Program Overview and the process of mentoring. To become a mentor, you click on mentor@arttherapy.org. Barbara Florence, the Director of Development, Member Benefits & Resources of AATA, will send you a profile to complete and will match you with an appropriate mentee.
Mentors and mentees may meet in person or communicate via phone or the Internet. This is decided upon between yourself and your mentee. There is an area on the Mentor Profile form where you choose the manner in which to communicate.
Although you and many of your Chapter’s members may have informally mentored for many years, we are now asking you to participate in this exciting new program to further strengthen our association, our membership and our professional field. I became a mentor in May of this year and I have found it a very rewarding experience.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give in promoting the Mentor Program and for considering participation yourself. If you have any ideas about how we can “get the word out” or questions about the program, please do not hesitate to contact me at 330-864-0452 or jmartinatr@sbcglobal.net .
Sincerely,
Jacky Martin, M.Ed., ATR-BC
Mentor Committee Sub Chair of the Membership Committee
The American Art Therapy Association
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