[Adta] Creative Arts Therapy Week March 18-24, 2007!!

[Christina Devereaux]

Announcing National Creative Arts Therapy Week!
March 18-24, 2007

The creative arts therapies include art  <http://www.nccata.org/art.html>
therapy, dance/movement  <http://www.nccata.org/dance.html> therapy, drama
therapy <http://www.nccata.org/drama.html> , music therapy
<http://www.nccata.org/music.html> , poetry therapy
<http://www.nccata.org/poetry.html> , and psychodrama
<http://www.nccata.org/psychodrama.html> . 

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 18-24,
2007!!  

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 2007 CAT Week!!! Go Go Go!!!

Send photos and highlights about your CAT week to ADTA's Public Relations
Chairperson, Christina Devereaux, christina at cd-photo.com 

Download FREE informational sheets (including Press Release, ADTA Brochures,
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 and ADTA brochures can be downloaded in the
media section at www.adta.org <http://www.adta.org/>  

Sincerely,
Christina Devereaux, MA, LCAT, LMHC, ADTR, NCC
Chairperson, Public Relations Committee
American Dance Therapy Association
w <http://www.adta.org> ww.adta.org 
 <mailto:christina at cd-photo.com> christina at cd-photo.com 

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