Firstly, I would like to reiterate my thanks to the outgoing board members for their passion and dedication to our profession, and to Charlise for leading us to where we are today. This marks my first newsletter as President of the Australian Recreational Therapy Association, which I am extremely humbled and proud to undertake. As …
Welcome to the first Australian Recreational Therapy Association (ARTA) newsletter. On Tuesday the 6th of September the membership voted for adopting a new constitution and a new title for our profession. We are working to have everything in place including changes to the website by the end of the year. During this transition we will …
September will be the most important month for our profession. As a member of this association, each one of us will make a collective choice about two things on September 6th. One choice will be about how this association will run. The changes include having open board positions that are no longer linked to state …
The board have been very busy. We have been meeting fortnightly over the last couple of months to fine tune the new constitution, develop a new strategic plan, and to realign how we manage this in a cohesive and meaningful way. We are now in the process of finalising the new constitution and this will …
A new financial year is upon us, remembering membership renewal is due. It has been another whirlwind of a year, and hard to imagine we are moving into the second half of 2022. The board has been moving full steam ahead incorporating your ideas and feedback into robust discussions and decision making to support our …
Lots has been going on again in the month of May. After the Town Hall meetings in early May, we met with Allied Health Professions Australia (AHPA) to ensure the changes we discussed around the constitution would ensure that DRTA as a professional body would become part of AHPA. There are two different levels of …
Another month has slipped by, and we are moving into May and almost to the midpoint of another year. First and foremost, I would like to thank the members who attended the three Town Hall meetings we ran in early April. The feedback was really positive in terms of moving the profession forward and how …
We are a quarter of the way through the year, and with Easter just around the corner, April is always a busy and disruptive month in terms of programming. There are three national holidays this month with Good Friday, Easter Monday and Anzac Day. While Easter is not celebrated by everyone, it does give us …
A busy month with DRT week for the first time being in February. The association would love to know how you promoted the profession. The first International Knowledge Exchange took place directly following DRT week. I hope everyone got a lot out of these talks and got a better understanding of how clients are supported …
Happy new year! Welcome to our first newsletter for 2022. The Omicron variant of COVID-19 has had a massive impact across all service areas that we work in. While there are less deaths caused by this variant, being more contagious also means our clients are often at more risk, having a bigger impact on our …
The last of the mental health reform webinars each gave a great insight into the conceptualisation of mental health services and how they may look in the future. I have also provided a link to a paper looking at the mental health sector and the considerations currently being made about the delivery of mental health …
This month we attended a webinar about work integrated learning and ensuring the integrity of quality course outcomes for different professions. The Australian Collaborative Education Network (ACEN) have been having critical conversations about ensuring quality placement and have developed a framework called a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) quality assurance framework. If you want to have …
