By Clara Keane | June 28, 2018 | Advocacy | Events BACK TO THE MAIN BLOG On the morning of June 26, 2018, fifteen art therapists gathered for an open comment hearing during a meeting of the Virginia Board of Health Professions (BHP) to speak to the need to regulate...
By Clara Keane | May 31, 2018 | Children | Events | BACK TO THE MAIN BLOG Since 1949, America has observed May as Mental Health Awareness Month. Each year as a nation, we double down on the fight against stigma and educate the public, support those struggling with...
By Clara Keane | April, 5 2018 | Advocacy | Events BACK TO THE MAIN BLOG The AATA is a proud National Partner of Americans for the Arts’ (AftA) Arts Advocacy Day (AAD), which gathered over 650 advocates from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, who...
By Gretchen Graves, MS, ATR-BC, CDATA | January 18, 2018 | Advocacy | Events BACK TO THE MAIN BLOG As the AATA works with members in 24 states engaged in advocacy efforts during the 2018 legislative sessions, I would like to highlight some good news from Virginia....
By Deborah A. Good, PhD, ATR-BC, ATCS, LPAT, LPCC | January 11, 2018 | Advocacy | Events BACK TO THE MAIN BLOG The AATA was invited to participate in a panel presentation entitled “The Arts and Well Being Across the Military Continuum” at the National Conference of...
By Molly Kometiani, ATR-BC, BATA President | January 4, 2018 | Advocacy | Events BACK TO THE MAIN BLOG The Buckeye Art Therapy Association (BATA) hosted Art Therapy in Ohio Advocacy Day on Wednesday, November 29, 2017, at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus. It was a...
