What Makes NCCAP Unique
by Cindy Bradshaw, ACC
NCCAP Executive Director
NCCAP
is listed as a 501(c)6 organization--which in brief,
desig-nates it as "a non profit asso-ciation of
persons having a common business interest which the
association was formed to promote" (Hand-book 7.8.1
Ch 6).
Although
NCCAP provides education to its members, its purpose
is not to educate in a general sense on the activity
field. NCCAP, The National Association for Activity
Professionals, is the member-based association that
is avail-able for activity professionals as an educational
body. The education NCCAP provides to activity professionals
includes such things as how to become nationally certified,
the impor-tance of being nationally certi-fied, and
training instruc-tors/giving them the tools to augment
a good, balanced activity course.
NCCAP
promotes the profes-sion in areas of impressing upon
administrators the need to hire qualified professionals,
encouraging state agencies to support the 90 hour activity
courses as their state approved course, and urging health
care associations to recognize the importance of certified
individ-uals in the activity profession. In the coming
months. NCCAP will be making certification more visible
to the health care community - especially in those geographical
areas where there are a low number of certified individuals
- in sup-port of the ideal that "Quality Starts
with Certified Activity Professionals."
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