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Thursday, April 22, 2021
New AMTA-pro Podcast - Robert Groene
In this AMTA-Pro podcast, Robert Groene tells of his adventures as he played in rock bands, got drafted, taught guitar to at-risk adolescents as a Conscientious Objector, started and quit college, then played in more bands and at coffeehouses. All of this before he had even heard of music therapy! Tune in to this AMTA-Pro podcast where Dr. Robert Groene, a recipient of the AMTA Lifetime Achievement Award, tells many anecdotes about his interesting career as a musician and as a music therapist.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2021
AMTA-pro Podcast - Adonia Calhoun Coates
This podcast features a conversation with AMTA’s CEO, Adonia Calhoun Coates. After talking briefly about her previous professional experience, Adonia tells podcast listeners about her enthusiasm for joining the AMTA team and working with the dedicated community of music therapists. She talks about ideas, projects, and future plans for advancing AMTA’s mission and goals as well as heightening awareness, increasing and commitment to expanding the reach of music therapy.
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Thursday, April 8, 2021
New AMTA-pro Podcast - Marilyn Sandness
In this AMTA-Pro podcast, Marilyn Sandness shares engaging stories about her professional journey beginning with a degree from Eastman in 1958, her clinical work in some challenging situations in the early 1960s and through major transformation in the nature of services in the 1970s, her twenty-four rewarding years as a music therapy professor, and her thirty-four intense years as a volunteer with NAMT and AMTA, helping shape the nature of education and training music therapists today.
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Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Funding Opportunities
Funding opportunities for research in music and music therapy.
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Wednesday, March 24, 2021
AMTA Statement on Recent Acts of Violence
From the AMTA: National Organization; Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, Midwestern, New England, Southeastern, Southwestern and Western Regions; and International Relations Committee
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Sunday, March 21, 2021
Ongoing Grief and the Pandemic: Honoring a Year
This video from the AMTA COVID-19 Task Force, “Ongoing Grief and the Pandemic: Honoring a Year" is a brief presentation by Heather Wagner, PhD, MT-BC, Lauren DiMaio, PhD, MT-BC, and Molly Hicks, MMT, MT-BC, and includes discussion of ongoing grief and a ritual to help music therapists pause and acknowledge COVID-19 losses.
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Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Bristol Myers Squibb and AMTA Team Up with Ben Platt to Launch MS in Harmony
MS in Harmony is a digital offering designed to help people living with multiple sclerosis achieve mind-body harmony through music therapy techniques
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Wednesday, February 17, 2021
2021 Arthur Flagler Fultz Award - Application and Guidelines now available
The purpose of the Arthur Flagler Fultz Research Fund is to encourage, promote, and fund music therapy research and/or to conduct research on new and innovative music therapy treatments.
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Monday, February 8, 2021
AMTA-Pro Podcast: Federal Advocacy for Music Therapy
AMTA’s Government Relations Director Judy Simpson and AMTA’s Senior Federal Policy & Programs Analyst Rebecca Preddie discuss the extensive work of AMTA’s Government Relations team on behalf of the music therapy profession and those music therapists serve. Learn information and contacts music therapists need to get involved in helping raise the impact and efficacy of music therapy services and increasing access to music therapy in areas of health, education, veteran services, and health care.
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