Fall 2015 NAAP News is HERE

Over the past few years NAAP has shared with the membership the challenges of yearly elections and consistent voting from our membership.  NAAP also recognizes the challenges state associations have gone through in the last two years with the impact of COVID, participation, and services.  In response to these challenges, the NAAP board has revised […]

NAAP is proud to announce that there have been three Diversity Advancement Scholarships awarded! The intent of this scholarship is to create interest and awareness of Therapeutic Activity Services with people of color and other minorities by providing financial support for education in activity services, therapeutic recreation, geriatrics and other related fields. Scholarships range from […]

In seeking to dispel the pressure to hold groups, to get the pressure where it belongs, focusing on each individual and his/her interests, we now turn our attention to helping institutionalized people be meaningfully engaged.  I contend that we have needed to focus on this need way before a pandemic, certainly during it, and will […]

In all the time I’ve been advocating for increased community engagement and instituting a robust volunteer workforce managed by trained managers of volunteers, rarely have I ever received push back from care staff or direct-care workers. However, when talking with leadership, it’s a bit of a different story. And this is not about disparaging leadership. […]

The pressure to hold groups is unfounded. Check out some of the reasons why in the last article The Pressure to Hold Groups; Is it valid? (7/20/21). Notice the federal regulation does not state any requirement regarding groups per se, they are mentioned as options to offer but notice the requirement focuses on each resident […]

For two weeks at the end of June, the members of the National Association of Activity Professionals were treated to two weeks of free programming by Sage Stream, an innovative and new senior entertainment and education network. In October of last year, we created Sage Stream with the help of students from Northeastern University. The […]