President's Report Antoinette Neff, MT-BC, President Greetings and Happy New Year!
 It was wonderful to see many of you at the AMTA national conference in Sandusky, Ohio last November.The 2017 SWAMTA Regional Conference registration is now open! It will be held in Fort Worth, TX from This year’s theme is “Cowtown Connection: Recharge at the Music Therapy Round-Up!”. Our opening session will be sponsored by Houston Methodist. We are extremely grateful for this generous support! Thank you to Jennifer Townsend and all she has done to help with this sponsorship. Jennifer has also been coordinating some fabulous CMTE offerings, so register early! Vice President, Diane Powell, Local Committee Chair, Mary Altom, the local committee, and the SWAMTA Board have been working hard to make sure this will be a conference you won’t want to miss. Check out the our website at www.swamta.com to register and for conference updates. I’ll see you there!  SWAMTA President-Elect, Christine Neugebauer, discusses her role and responsibilities to the region, and draws attention to the open nominations for the Harmony Award.
Touching Base with the Website Administrator Christina Stock relays information about changes in the process of registering for conference online and invites you to explore the SWAMTA website. |
SWAMTAS Report
SWAMTAS is looking forward to regional conference! We will be releasing applications for three student scholarships in February and they will be due just prior to conference. We hope all students will attend the Students should also plan to attend our two business meetings to understand what all the schools and the region have been doing this year. Students! Please apply to be a part of Passages - student presentations given during conference. Information about passages can be found at swamta.com. We wish all students and professionals a wonderful spring semester! Siobhan Kelley
Stay up to date with SWAMTA's social network presence online. Get inspired by seeing the success stories of music therapists in the region profiled in the media. "Ask Eva" is a brand new column in the Red River Valley aimed at answering student and new professional music therapist’s questions about the professional and personal aspects of this field. | Vice-President's Report
We are so excited that the registration for our upcoming regional conference is open! The Cowtown Connection will be held March 23-25 at the Sheraton in downtown Ft. Worth. There is continually new information going up on the SWAMTA website, so please check it out for the latest news or if you have any questions. The schedule of sessions will be posted soon, as well as more details about the exciting things being planned by our local committee. On the website there is also a link to reserve your hotel room for your stay. Start making your plans to join us for what is sure to be a fantastic conference! Diane Powell,
In this edition of the interview series brought to you by the editor's of the Red River Valley, meet Janice Lindstrom, a board certified music therapist who turned losing funding into diverse career experiences, which now allow her to train the next generation of Music Therapists. The Assembly of Delegates reports on their meeting at national conference in 2016, discussing motions passed, including accepting a recommendation not to increase membership dues in 2018.
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