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EventsANNUAL CONFERENCE Dates: October 5th & 6th Where: Delta Hotels by Marriot Minneapolis NE 1330 Industrial Blvd NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413 For more details and updates click HERE May is MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH! RSVP May 4th - Feed My Starving Children
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If you don't need to change your membership level and you'd like to renew early, or make changes to your profile (including annual donation amounts), you can log into your member profile. All members are on the same calendar cycle, from Jan 1-Dec 31 of each year. Renew early in the year to maximize your member benefits! Membership renewals for 2023 are now being accepted! | NewsAttention MFT's! St. Cloud State University is considering phasing out their graduate program for Marriage and Family Therapy due to a financial deficit. See the link to the article HERE We urge MFT’s to reach out to the university to urge them to reconsider this decision. To do so, you can contact the president, Robbyn Wacker here: (320) 308-2122 | president@stcloudstate.edu See the attached letter that MAMFT has sent to SCSU's president HERE Here are important points to consider in your letter: • The role that MFT and counseling interns play in your practice • The need for more licensed clinicians in your area • The need for BIPOC clinicians to meet the need of underrepresented groups • If you are an alumnus of the MFT or CMHC programs, highlight why you chose SCSU • How your experience has/was with faculty in the MFT or CMHC programs. • A positive story of something related to your experience with the MFT or CMHC programs. Additional advocacy steps: • Email President Wacker (budgetfeedback@stcloudstate.edu & robbyn.wacker@stcloudstate.edu) advocating to reverse the retrenchment of faculty members and closure of MFT program. • Submit a letter to President Wacker, in addition to an email, from your agency perspective. • Ask for an in-person meeting with President Wacker as a group. • Submit a Mental Health Awareness Month Op-Ed about the importance of protecting the faculty position to expand mental health care in the region and create a more diverse group of mental health professionals. • Organize fellow students, family, and friends to contact the president in support of the reversing the faculty reduction and program closure. The field of Marriage and Family Therapy is growing, and we want to ensure those in Minnesota are able to receive the necessary training and have access to programs throughout our state. We appreciate you taking the time to advocate for our training programs! Regulatory Board Response to Professional Firms Act Pre-licensed individuals and their supervisors have been asking how to comply with the Minnesota Professional Firms Act (MPFA). This law stipulates pre-licensed individuals cannot provide marriage and family therapy services as the owner of a corporation, limited liability company (LLC), or limited liability partnership (LLP). Pre-licensed individuals who practice under their own LLC might be worried how this could impact their path to licensure. So we asked the Minnesota Board of Marriage and Family Therapy (BMFT/Regulatory Board) how they interpret the MPFA and, theoretically, how they would respond to someone who is not in compliance with the MPFA. The Regulatory board stated their initial response would be to provide education, and recommend legal support, to help the applicant or LAMFT bring their practice into compliance. Specifically they stated “a complaint investigation is not opened and would not occur absent evidence of repeated noncompliance after receiving information about statutory requirements.” We encourage individuals impacted by this to read the BMFT’s full response HEREMAMFT Cribs: Want to be featured in our MAMFT Cribs? Click HERE to fill out the form to be featured! MAMFT has an Instagram page! Click HERE to follow us! We are excited to be posting and sharing more content with MFT's on our social media pages! Advocacy update! MFT's have won a huge battle to get in-network with Medicare! The bill is currently making it's way through Congress. Please read more about the press briefing from AAMFT HERE. If you would like to get involved with advocacy issues, please email Alex Iantaffi at president@mamft.net. Do you want to get involved? Do you want to attend a board meeting or a committee meeting? Please check out our calendar HERE to find more information. |
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