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NCCAP Website
Kathy
Hughes
ADC, COTA, NCCAP Vice President
The
NCCAP website has everything that you could need as a certified
activity professional. We hope that you take some time to look
around the site and see what tools NCCAP has made available
to you. Not only is the entire NCCAP Standards packet, application,
and renewal form available, but we also have a sample certificate
of attendance and all of the NCCAP NEWS articles from previous
newsletters archived for you to review and to use in your state
association newsletters. We encourage activity professionals
and other organizations to download and use our information
for classes, conferences, and association meetings. NCCAP also
invites you to copy off the information about advertising in
the NCCAP NEWS as well.
The
NCCAP Bulletin Board is available for interaction as well as
education. There are many postings concerning a variety of ways
to obtain continuing education both on the Internet and in your
community. We encourage all organizations to post their pre-approved
workshops, seminars and conferences on the bulletin board. We
also encourage NCCAP pre-approved instructors to post their
upcoming MEPAP courses so that anyone can access times, dates,
and contacts for you and fellow activity professionals wanting
to become NCCAP certified. There are several discussions currently
taking place concerning salaries, job opportunities and programming
information. We encourage all activity professionals to post
questions and concerns about the activity profession. Our NCCAP
Board members offer advice and frequently post answers to your
questions. We are the only national association that has Board
members frequently interacting with activity professionals of
all levels.
In
addition to the bulletin board, NCCAP schedules chats in our
chat rooms to interact with other activity professionals. We
schedule times day and night to answer your certification questions
in real time. The schedule is posted on the NCCAP Bulletin Board
ahead of time so that you can arrange to join us. Everyone is
invited to use the chat room, but it is for activity professionals
and not for the general public. Other activity professional
groups can also schedule times (email info@nccap.org to schedule
this) to hold an online meeting or to exchange ideas. We do
not monitor the chat room daily, so any questions that you post
might not be answered. We encourage you to use the Bulletin
Board for posting questions or concerns as the NCCAP chat room
is for real time chatting and not for posting messages. The
NCCAP Board is doing its best to schedule more times and opportunities
for you to chat with them directly. However, remember that they
are activity professionals themselves and have limited time
to schedule. Please check the NCCAP Bulletin Board or chat page
for times. Your state or local association or class is welcome
to schedule a chat as well.
Those organizations wanting NCCAP pre-approval can find the
application form on our website as well. We encourage all those
having continuing education programs to obtain
NCCAP pre-approval. The application form can be printed right
off the site and is easy to use. We also have a sample certificate
of attendance that can guide you in what to include on your
certificate for your continuing education program. You can also
use our sample certificate for in-services at your facility
and for continuing education programs that you attend in your
community.
The
NCCAP Standards Packet makes up the bulk of the NCCAP.ORG website.
The guided tour and various links on our homepage can connect
you to all of the current NCCAP certification processes.
We
also link you to CMS Web casts that NCCAP pre-approved for activity
professionals. We strive to assure activity professionals of
all levels to keep up with the latest trends in regulatory compliance
and are proud to offer continuing education opportunities nationwide
via these informative CMS Web casts.
Finally
you can link to NAAP (National Association of Activity Professionals)
through the NCCAP Bulletin Board. Accessing the NAAP website
will allow you to plan for their annual conference and give
you additional information concerning the activity profession.
We are in the process of linking state association websites
on the NCCAP site, as well as other activity professional organizations,
so that all the tools are available to you the NCCAP member
and to those individuals in the activities profession. So schedule
some time on the Internet. NCCAP encourages you to use the most
powerful activity tool available to you—any time of the
day or night. We look forward to seeing you. NN
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