Membership Committee 

The goals and tasks of the Membership Committee are related to the Mission and goals of AMTA especially in the area of Advocacy and Professional Development:

II. Advocacy [AMTA Strategic Plan, 2000]
Advocacy: Promoting music therapy means advancing public awareness of music therapy as a viable health care profession and as an efficacious clinical intervention. In addition, AMTA must continue to advocate for the provision of music therapy services in medical, educational, community-based and other settings.

III. Professional Development [AMTA Strategic Plan, 2000]
Goal Statement: To provide information, educational and technical assistance on effective therapeutic models and emerging therapeutic practices; best business and association practices; and labor supply and demand economics to address the needs of the profession.

GOALS:
  1. To insure the growth and development of AMTA by determining ways to increase membership.
  2. To promote the value of all categories of AMTA membership.
  3. To evaluate the needs of AMTA members.

Jennifer M. Sokira, MMT, LCAT, MT-BC