Date: October 20, 2015                                             Southwestern Region - AMTA

Report: 2015 Year-end report

GOALS:

·       Coordinate planning of regional conference

Conference Planning Update:

1)     Conference Dates March 31^st - April 2^nd 2016 at “Weston Austin at the Domain”

2)     Local committee chair Stephanie Shehan has communicated with the local committee and they have chosen a conference theme:
 South by Music Therapy (SXMT).

3)     Deadline for presentation abstracts is Monday Dec. 7^th  (See call for papers here.)

4)     Jennifer Townsend has submitted the CMTE course to AMTA/CBMT

5)     We are currently waiting on a reply from AMTA regarding if the President is on rotation to come to the southwest conference this year

6)     We recently had a change of contact person at the hotel

Upcoming Tasks:

1)     Choose logo design

2)     Get details out to membership

3)     Contact Hotel and select menu and room set ups

4)     Select keynote speaker

5)     Organize vendors

6)     Review presentation abstracts and set program

Respectfully submitted,

Amy Smith, MA, MT-BC, CCLS

VP Southwestern Region