"AMTA-Minnesota Chapter’s mission is to advance the profession of massage therapy, and educate the community on the benefits of massage therapy."
Join AMTA-MN for Massage & Bodywork Day at the Capitol:
Wed Feb 29, 2012
In our continuing efforts to pass a reasonable state-wide regulation for the Massage and Bodywork Therapy Profession, the AMTA-MN is joining forces with ABMP and the supporters of the MN-based Alliance for Licensing Massage Therapists (ALMT) to show the legislators just how much support there is for this legislation. To that end, the groups named above as well as several schools around the area are working together to organize a "Massage & Bodywork Day at the Capitol" event, scheduled for Wed Feb 29, 2012. Participation is free and we would love to have you join us. Read on for more details and the quick online participant registration form.
Plans for the Day
The day is planned for Wednesday Feb 29th from roughly 8:30am-12noon. If you can join us early in the day, Northwestern Health Sciences University (NWHSU) in Bloomington has generously offered to host a 7am light breakfast and briefing as well as provide bus transportation to the Capitol for any who want/need it. At the end of the day, buses would then be arriving back to Bloomington around noon or 12:30. Otherwise, you can meet us at the Capitol at 8:30am and take part in a quick briefing for those who weren't able to hear the briefing earlier and start our day.
Optional Beginning to the Day
7:00am Breakfast at Northwestern Health Sciences University in Bloomington
7:30am Briefing and discussion of talking points for the Day
8:00am Buses leave for St. Paul
Official Start to the Day
8:30am Briefing at the Capitol (Room # to be determined)
9:00am - 12 noon Participants meet with Legislators
Logistics
- While participation is completely free and all are invited, registration is required.
- Appointments with lawmakers will be pre-scheduled based on your home legislative district, which we will determine once you have registered.
- As NWHSU has held a similar day for their students and alumni, they will be lending administrative support this year, (scheduling the appointments with lawmakers, organizing information packets, etc).
- Information packets will be provided the day of the event and will include your scheduled appointments with room numbers and names of others in your meeting, talking points, map of the Capitol grounds, etc.
- We will post an quick informational/training video online with basic talking points for the bill and the do's and don'ts of talking to a legislator.
Register to Join Us!
You can register as a participant using
THIS LINK. On the registration form there will be a way to let us know if you will be joining us for the early breakfast and whether you will need bus transportation. As an optimistic early deadline, so that we can start the process of scheudlign legislator appointments, we are asking for participants to sign up by Wed Feb 8th.
