CATS in the 99% Virtual Participation in the next meeting!

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Hello Dani and other NYCCAT Members,One of the suggestions made to the community before the last weeks CATS in the 99% meeting was to get LCAT's who reside outside of NYC involved at the meeting via SKYPE, or some other such technology. 

Thank you for bringing it up again as I forgot to put this in the minutes.  So if there are LCAT's outside of the NYC area who want to attend the meeting virtually please contact me, Cara, directly @ cara.gallo@... and we can most certainly set this up.  The more voices the better!

I have also set up a Gmail Group for CATS in the 99%.  In the next couple of days I will send out an email announcement with information about how to join.  It will be useful to have a centralized virtual location to share information, dialogue, post minutes and   formulate action plans as a group. 

Take good care.Cara

Thanks to everyone who went to the meeting. It is difficult for those of us who live in what is really upstate NY to come to mud-week meetings. The minutes are impressive. The issue of 

" 1.    

Role of the Universities

 speak to university programs.  Is it ethical to churn out graduates when there are no jobs. " is something that I have been concerned about for years. 

Counselors used to be in the same position, but the MHC programs here in Rochester and surrounding areas have become actively involved in collaborating with local organizations. CATs already working on the front line or looking for work don't have the time or financial freedom to develop the kind of collaborative relationships that generate jobs. Looking for work in any profession is a full-time job. Looking for work as a CAT that will provide the kind of income required to pay back loans often seems elusive.

As someone who knows what it means to create positions, I can assure you that it is way too time consuming for an individual to take up the task in this ecoomy. The grad programs should be doing that. I have heard that Columbia, the DMT program in Chicago has done a great job of creating a need for their services. Someone should check into that. Maybe that is also true of some of the programs in NYC. If so, it would be great to hear about their methods for connecting. Programs that have left job creation to its graduates can then build on foundations                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                that have already been laid.

Yours in dance,Dani Fraenkel

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[Attachment(s) from Cara Gallo included below] Dear CAT Community,

Last Monday a group of approximately 14 met at Pratt Manhattan for our first meeting of CATS in the 99%!  It was a fantastic brainstorming session with wonderful dialogue and ideas for action.  I have attached the meeting minutes to this email.

We will meet again in February.  At the meeting we discussed meeting on Monday 2/6/2012; however there is a scheduling conflict for that date.  So I will put out two other options for us to meet.  If you are interested in attending the meeting please send me an email with your preference no later than the evening of Monday 1/23/12.

Option #1:Tuesday 2/14/12 6:30-8:30 pmOption #2:Tuesday 2/21/12 6:30-8:30 pm*** We will again meet at the Pratt Manhattan Campus: 144 14th Street room #213***

Thanks so much everyone!Yours,Cara--  " There are only two ways to live your life. One as though nothing is a miracle; the other as though everything is a miracle " Albert Einstein

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-- " There are only two ways to live your life. One as though nothing is a miracle; the other as though everything is a miracle " Albert Einstein