Hug your families, call your friends, be a community, keep in touch!

Talk soon,

Val

 

P.S. Our Fall Education Day will be November 11th at KY Dam Village in Gilbertsville, KY.  6 CE hours and lunch for, you guessed it, an AMAZING price for members. 

One thing that can be said about Caren is that she loves AMTA, but more specficially, our KY Chapter.  When she was asked in 2006 by Katherine Warner to be on the Printing Committee, little did she know she would catch the fever...that same year, she attended CVOP (Chapter Volunteer Orientation Program) and the rest is history. Caren has been our Chapter Webmaster since 2006 taking two short breaks for family circumstances. She has also held the offices of 2nd and 3rd Vice Presidents as well as our Volunteer Cooridnator, Communication Chair, CE Coordiantor, Nominating Committee Chair and Standing Rules Committee Chair. She loves organizing and really enjoys putting the final touches on the colors and fonts of the Newsletter whenever asked. Currently, she is working with Collette Wilson on our 2018 Spring Conference.

Caren has been a Massage Therapist for 14 years graduating from Lexington Healing Arts Academy in Dec. 2003.  She is married to Kenny and is the Mother of Two and Step Mother of Two. 

Here are the 3 important things for licensees to know:

1) License renewals are now done online BUT the board still has the responsibility to review and approve them.  Therefore, it still takes 30 days to get renewed IF you turn in everything correctly.  Please log in to your online account 60 days ahead of your renewal to make sure you have everything needed for the online form: 

·         a passport quality photo that you have saved to your computer so that you can attach it to the online form.  THE FOLLOWING ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE AND WILL DELAY YOUR APPROVAL: a photo of your drivers license, a photo that includes anything other than your upper shoulders and head, a photo of you with a hat or sunglasses or looking away from the camera.  For further definition of "passport quality photograph" please google that phrase.

·         your CE completion certificates scanned into your computer or saved from an email attachment.  The certificates must show provider name, contact info, provider number, name of the course, date of the course, number of CE's and your name.  If you are counting it towards your 3 ethics credits, it must say ethics.  ALL RENEWALS NEED THIS DOCUMENTATION.

·         ability to pay the fee through the online system.

If you are utterly unable to comply electronically then please email [email protected] and request a paper application in time to have it back to her at least 30 days ahead of your renewal.

KBLMT is requiring the Applications Committee to look at every photo, application and CE entry due to the incredible upswing in the involvement of human trafficking in the massage industry.  There has also been a national increase in fraudulent credentials both in "massage schools" and in the CE industry.  By looking for signs of these issues, we can refer serious issues to law enforcement agencies.   If the board only looks at 15% of the applications, much slips through.  Nearby states are having serious problems with these issues.

2.   The Board plans a serious review of our statutes and regs over the next 3-6 months, with a goal of potentially proposing legislative changes in the Fall of 2018.  The kinds of things we are looking to improve or debate: 

·         licensure or permitting of establishments may be needed

·         the number of CE's required for renewal--are we at a realistic number?  Should we require any to be "in person" or "hands on"?

·         ability to run background checks and get ongoing notification of offenses from KSP

·         fees

·         procedure and standards for Certificate of Good Standing for schools

·         changing inactive status  (see Oregon massage law, for example)

·         changing the time allowed for late renewals

·         composition of the board

·         other suggestions?

3.  The Board is required to have one member who is "an owner or director of a program of massage therapy instruction."  The current member's term expires on July 31, 2018 and she will not re-up.  Who will step forward to fill that position?

KBLMT has 4 new members.  Many thanks to Sandy Gadd and Eric Byrd for their years of service and hard work.  Their terms expired on July 31, 2017. 

Richard Whitehouse was appointed in early July to fill the position of member-at-large which had been vacant for a year.  He previously lived in Ohio and served on the Ohio Medical Board as a public member.  He represented that board at the Federation of State Massage Therapy Boards annual meeting, and after moving to Kentucky, he was appointed to KBLMT, serving as Kentucky's representative to the FSMTB annual meeting this year.  He lives in Louisville.

Brandy McDowell, LMT was appointed to fill the remaining 2 years of a term that was resigned last year.  She resides in Paducah.

Angel Wossum, LMT of Union KY and Michael Grise, LMT of Hopkinsville were appointed to 3-year terms. Angel instructs in the massage therapy program at Gateway Community College and is in management at an Elements Massage location.  Michael is in private practice in a clinic employing other LMT's.

These new voices are expressing fresh ideas and energy.

Thank you,

Denise M. Logsdon, MS, LMT, NCTMB

Chair, KBLMT