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Reminder:
Alumni meeting Wed Oct 13th at 7:00pm.
  
We will be talking about the new law requiring continuing education for LMT's.  
Snacks will be provided.  
Now that summer is over we all need to de-stress come for snacks and massage exchange. Bring your lotion and sheets!!!
Please let us know if you will be attending so we have enough to go around.
If you are not a member of your membership has expired please come to the meeting and we can process your renewal for you.  
Thank You We hope to see you at the next meeting

The book store will be open until 7pm the night of the Alumni meeting, so it you need any supplies come a few minutes early to pick them up.

 

Alumni Association

 The Alumni Association was developed to provide a professional membership organization to NYIM graduates. Benefits include continuing education opportunities, networking and business contacts, referral services, and membership in the Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals (ABMP) organization. Discounts are also available for professional insurance, massage therapy supplies, equipment, and NYIM student clinic treatments.

Meeting Schedule

Alumni Information:
Meeting Schedule:
Oct 13th Wed 7:00pm

We no longer provide membership cards for the Alumni Association. If you have given us a valid email address, we will send you mail regarding payments received and future meetings scheduled. If you have an updated address, phone number or email address, please notify us via email at  alumni@nyinstituteofmassage.com

ABMP Insurance

AANYIM has been notified by ABMP that effective immediately, the rate for their insurance has gone up $25. The rate is now $175.

Fellow Alumni:

 I would like to introduce myself (Alicia M. Jaworski) as your new Alumni President. I am a 2004 graduate of the New York Institute of Massage. I currently work out of the Pilates co-op located in Orchard Park, John Roberts Salon and Spa in Eden, and I am a clinic assistant at NYIM. The Vice President Jennifer A. Greene LMT, CIMI graduated in 2006 and is currently the head Program Coordinator of the Massage Therapy Department Kaleida Healthcare Women & Children’s Hospital of Buffalo Developed June 2007. We would like to increase involvement of Alumni members and would like to hear anything that you think would improve this association. Communication is our # one goal, we will be sending out a monthly letter to let you know what is going on, when meetings are scheduled , what our account balance is and any new events that may come up.  Along with the regular meeting we will have a guest speaker to address these questions and many others. We hope to see you there. Please send an e-mail or give us a call at 633-0355 X203 and leave a message if you will be attending this meeting. We need a head count ahead of time to provide you with the information and hand outs that you will need to take with you.

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Alicia M. Jaworski LMT
 Alumni President NY Institute of Massage

Mission Statement 

    The alumni Association of The New York Institute of Massage is a not-for-profit professional organization of licensed massage therapist, committed to nurturing and promoting the highest quality and standards in therapeutic massage, by providing opportunities for continuing educating and peer support.  Forging strong bonds with colleagues, creating unity  and by preserving the high quality values of our profession. 

The Alumni Association of NYIM can be contacted at

P.O. Box 966
Buffalo, NY 14231
(716) 633-0355 or 1-800-884-6946
Extension 203

alumni@nyinstituteofmassage.com

The ABMP can be contacted at:

PO Box 1869 Evergreen, CO 80437-9929
(303)674-0859

Continuing Education & New York State

 

§ 7807. Mandatory continuing education.
[Became law August 30, 2010; effective, January 1, 2012]
1.
a. Each massage therapist licensed pursuant to this article required to register triennially with the department to practice in the state shall comply with the provisions of the mandatory continuing education requirements prescribed in subdivision two of this section except as set forth in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this subdivision. Massage therapists who do not satisfy the mandatory continuing education requirements shall not practice until they have met such requirements, and they have been issued a registration certificate, except that a massage therapist may practice without having met such requirements if he or she is issued a conditional registration certificate pursuant to subdivision three of this section.
b. Massage therapists shall be exempt from the mandatory continuing education requirement for the triennial registration period during which they are first licensed. In accord with the intent of this section, adjustments to the mandatory continuing education requirement may be granted by the department for reasons of health certified by an appropriate health care professional, for extended active duty with the armed forces of the United States, or for other good cause acceptable to the department which may prevent compliance.
c. A licensed massage therapist not engaged in professional practice, as determined by the department, shall be exempt from the mandatory continuing education requirement upon the filing of a statement with the department declaring such status. Any licensee who returns to the practice of massage therapy during the triennial registration period shall notify the department prior to reentering the profession and shall meet such mandatory education requirements as shall be prescribed by regulations of the commissioner.
2. During each triennial registration period an applicant for registration as a massage therapist shall complete a minimum of thirty-six hours of acceptable formal continuing education, a maximum of twelve hours of which may be self-instructional course work acceptable to the department. Any massage therapist whose first registration date following the effective date of this section occurs less than three years from such effective date, shall complete continuing education hours on a prorated basis at the rate of one hour per month for the period beginning January first, two thousand twelve up to the first registration date thereafter. A licensee who has not satisfied the mandatory continuing education requirements shall not be issued a triennial registration certificate by the department and shall not practice unless and until a conditional registration certificate is issued as provided for in subdivision three of this section, or until he or she has otherwise met the requirements of this section.
3. The department, in its discretion, may issue a conditional registration to a licensee who fails to meet the continuing education requirements established in subdivision two of this section but who agrees to make up any deficiencies and complete any additional education which the department may require. The fee for such a conditional registration shall be the same as, and in addition to, the fee for the triennial registration. The duration of such conditional registration shall be determined by the department but shall not exceed one year. Any licensee who is notified of the denial of registration for failure to submit evidence, satisfactory to the department, of required continuing education and who practices without such registration, may be subject to disciplinary proceedings pursuant to section sixty-five hundred ten of this chapter.
4. As used in subdivision two of this section, "acceptable formal continuing education" may mean formal programs of learning which contribute to professional practice in massage therapy which are offered by sponsors of massage therapy continuing education approved by the department in consultation with the state board for massage therapy, to fulfill the mandatory continuing education requirement. Sponsors of massage therapy continuing education may include, but are not limited to, state or national professional associations established to further the massage therapy profession, and may include any affiliates of international massage therapy conferences at which professional continuing education is a major component of such conferences, as well as programs registered as licensure-qualifying for the profession of massage therapy by the department. Sponsors of massage therapy shall file an application with the department and pay a fee of nine hundred dollars. While presenters of didactic instruction may be provided by persons who are not licensed by the state of New York as massage therapists, the practical application of such modalities and techniques must be done by licensed massage therapists, or those otherwise authorized, when this continuing education occurs in the state of New York.
5. Massage therapists shall maintain adequate documentation of completion of acceptable formal continuing education and shall provide such documentation at the request of the department. Failure to provide such documentation upon the request of the department shall be an act of misconduct subject to disciplinary proceedings pursuant to section sixty-five hundred ten of this chapter.
6. The mandatory continuing education fee shall be forty-five dollars, shall be payable on or before the first day of each triennial registration period, and shall be paid in addition to the triennial registration fee required by section seventy-one hundred twenty-four of this chapter.