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Excellence in the Media Award

Signup Deadline: 12-15-2024
Starts: 05-01-2025
Ends: 05-01-2025
Location: Online Opportunity

Description:

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Description
AAMFT recognizes up to two people annually who have demonstrated excellence in promoting the practice and profession of marriage and family therapy through the media.


Criteria


Nominees do not need to be AAMFT members. Nominees must have used media to:


A. Effectively portray marriage and family therapists’ exceptional and substantive contribution to health and mental health care; or
B. Promote the profession of marriage and family therapy to the public; or
C. Significantly contribute to family well-being.

Submissions are encouraged from all popular media, including, but not limited to, newspapers, magazines, radio, television, blogs, and social media. Entries must have been published or broadcast in the previous year from the date of nomination submission.

Required Materials


This award may be self-nominated or nominated by a third party and does not need to be a member of AAMFT. All self-nominations require a letter of recommendation to be submitted with materials, which should be no more than 500 words. Nominators must submit a letter of recommendation, which should be no more than 500 words, detailing how the nominee meets the award criteria and highlighting the nominee’s efforts and achievements in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in their work. Hyperlinks to media appearances or publications must be included, in addition to PDFs/presentations if the link requires a login.


Award
The award consists of:
• An engraved plaque presented at the Systemic Family Therapy Conference.
• Reimbursement of up to $500 per recipient for travel to the Annual Conference* during years the conference is held in-person. If the award is given during virtual years, the awardee may use the travel award toward the upcoming Advanced Institutes or Leadership Symposium.
• The event registration fee will also be waived for the award recipient(s).

*AAMFT will reimburse up to the total of $500 for economy class airfare, transportation to/from airport/hotel, meals per AAMFT allowances for the one day of the ceremony, and one night's hotel stay at one of the AAMFT conference hotels (at the special discounted rate) for the night of the ceremony. AAMFT will provide the awardee with the per diem amount prior to attending the ceremony and send the awardee the funds after the event.

Announcements: Announcements of award winners will be distributed via the eNews and other platforms as they apply.

Volunteers Needed:

1 (0 open slots)

Experience Required:

Yes

Contact:

Lachey Horn