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A special shout out to our 2022 Conference Sponsors! Thank you for your support for the 2022 Canadian Therapeutic Recreation Association Conference this past May! Over Almost 300 Therapeutic recreation Practitioners, managers, students and supporters from across the world came together virtually to learn, discover and connect for our profession  Having sponsorships such as those

The National Day of Arts in Care Homes, 24 September #AICH2022 The National Day of Arts in Care Homes is an annual event, led by NAPA in the UK, which takes place on 24 September. The aim is to champion, promote and encourage arts engagement in care settings. Read about previous events here: https://artsincarehomes.org.uk/previous-national-days/.  This year,

We are so excited to announce that the article written up by the CTRA Marketing Director highlighting the importance of our profession has officially been published!! Check out the Global Heroes website below or view the image of the article included within this email! https://www.globalheroes.com/therapeutic-recreation-for-all-canadians/ Happy Therapeutic Recreation Month!!

Time certainly doesn’t stand still. Here we are almost at the end of November and I am sure you are all frantically getting ready for all the events that accompany the holiday season. Remember to include yourself in your planning…taking time for yourself and those that are special to you is so very important now

https://canadian-tr.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/We-are-Essential-Video.mp4 To all of our Members + Colleagues, I thought I would take this time to write you all a quick note regarding how important Recreation Therapy has been during this pandemic. We have been vital in ensuring residents quality of life can remain as high as possible during these challenging times, through a number

CTRA Board of Directors Update April/May 2021: What busy months April and May have been! The CTRA Board of Directors met on April 21 and as you can well imagine the agenda was packed full of final planning for the (then) upcoming Virtual conference. Final details were confirmed and a review of all the behind

Each month the CTRA Board of Directors meets over the GoToMeeting platform to work together and Address Therapeutic Recreation issues across the country. These meetings are scheduled for 7:00 p.m. eastern time and are supposed to end at 8:00 but I can attest to the fact that they always go over the allotted one hour

On behalf of the CTRA Board I would like to take this time to wish all our CTRA members a Happy Therapeutic Recreation Awareness Month.  We are celebrating from February 1-28, 2021.  Our theme for this year is “In This Together”!  As I reflect over this past year and look at our theme, I feel

On November 18, 2020 the CTRA Board of Directors and the CTRA Staff met and the following are a few highlights of what was discussed. CTRA BOD met and welcomed two brand new members to our board. Our new Western Director: Melissa D’souza and Marketing Director: Chelsea Crockford.  Thank you for stepping into these roles