Creative Arts Therapy Week March 12-18, 2006!!

[Guest guest]

Announcing

National Creative Arts Therapy Week!

March 12-18, 2006

The creative arts therapies include art therapy,

dance/movement therapy, drama therapy, music therapy, poetry therapy, and psychodrama.

As a Creative Arts Therapist, we hope that you will

take the opportunity to share in spreading

the word about the power

and the effectiveness of the

healing arts during Creative Arts Therapy Week to be held March 12-18, 2006!!

2006 is the 40th anniversary of the American Dance Therapy

Association. We invite you to celebrate

within your community the extraordinary work of the creative arts therapists

all over the world.

We invite you to use this week as a public relations effort to celebrate our

disciplines throughout the United

States.

We invite you to design

your own celebration of the Creative Arts Therapies.

What should you do? …Do

what you do best!!

CHOREOGRAPH YOUR OWN CELEBRATION OF CAT WEEK!!

You could….

* Host an open house with other CAT colleagues to

display and demonstrate your modality -or provide a workshop or seminar open to

the public.

* Offer to run a

career day with colleagues at a local high school or college.

* Provide a staff development in-service to broaden

the knowledge of other professionals in your own institution or agency.

* Visit other schools, nursing homes, day-care centers

to provide a creative arts therapy experience.

* Arrange a display at your local library (and in your

own institution or agency!)

* Put up posters and leave flyers wherever you go.

* Send out press release to your local paper

announcing Creative Arts Therapies Week activities in your community.

* Send a letter or e-mail to the Public Service

Director of your local radio and TV stations for a PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT.

(Be sure to include your contact information.)

* Arrange for you or a colleague to be INTERVIEWED by

a local paper or station, highlighting your work.

Take photos and share with us about your ingenuity!!

We can do this!! Let’s have a fantastic 2006 CAT Week!!! Go

Go Go!!!

Send photos and highlights about your CAT week to

ADTA’s Public Relations Chairperson, Devereaux, christina@...

Download FREE informational sheets

(including Press Release, CAT Week flyer & NCCATA informational sheet) that

you can use for your CAT week celebration at http://www.nccata.org/CATs_week.htm

; Dance/movement therapy informational sheets can be downloaded in the media

section at www.adta.org

Sincerely,

Devereaux, MA, ADTR, NCC

Public Relations Chairperson ADTA

christina@...