Advocacy

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What is Advocacy?

Giving a voice for those we serve who have no voice.
Providing support to those who cannot help themselves.
Sharing our powerful stories.
Educating our policy makers, our schools, our communities.
Expanding awareness of Dance/Movement Therapy as an essential therapeutic modality.
Motivating and orchestrating lasting change.

Dance/Movement Therapy added to H.R. 4063 The PROMISE Act / H.R. 271 The COVER Act as a listed complementary alternative treatment therapy for mental health issues for inclusion of treatment for veterans
Broadening licensure obtainability for dance/movement therapists across the country

Join ADTA Government Affairs Committee
Serve on a regional chapter board
Participate in Calls of Action
Visit your congressional member
Call your congressional member
Write a letter to your congressional member
Email your congressional member
Encourage your co-workers, creative arts therapists, doctors, social workers, marriage family therapists, family members, friends, and neighbors to call, email, and/or write letters to their congressional members on the behalf of Dance/Movement Therapy
Attend an event where your congressional member is speaking…ask a question regarding Dance/Movement Therapy
Take a workshop focused on Advocacy
Work with organizations to expand awareness and accessibility of Dance/Movement Therapy into the mainstream of healthcare, education, licensure, legislation, and communities
Educate your doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, marriage family therapists, nurses on the value and effectiveness of Dance/Movement Therapy for their patients/clients
Share Dance/Movement Therapy research, benefits, and impact with everyone you encounter. (Need materials? Use these clinical information sheets.)