{"id":894,"date":"2012-01-03T10:39:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T15:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/marketing\/?p=894"},"modified":"2012-01-03T10:39:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T15:39:59","slug":"gcc-offers-innovative-solution-to-state-licensing-challenge-for-massage-therapists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/newsroom\/2012\/01\/03\/gcc-offers-innovative-solution-to-state-licensing-challenge-for-massage-therapists\/","title":{"rendered":"GCC Offers Innovative Solution to State Licensing Challenge for Massage Therapists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong><em>Greenfield Community College Offers Clinical Class for Massage Therapist Not Yet Licensed<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><em>Solution will put massage school graduates\u00a0 to work<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Greenfield Community College Stillpoint Center for Advanced Education is offering a clinical class beginning in January 2012 tailored to these graduates who are just shy of state licensing requirements. \u00a0Students who need more or fewer hours than those offered by the class will be accommodated by the Center as well. \u00a0This opportunity is open to any massage school graduate\u00a0from any school in the Commonwealth who may be in a similar situation\u2014not just GCC graduates.<\/p>\n<p>\"Can you help me get licensed?\" these kinds of calls from graduates of GCC's massage therapy program, sparked a creative solution from Patricia Wachter, Coordinator of the \u00a0Stillpoint Center for Advanced Massage Education to help them get licensed so they \u00a0could get back to work. \"Graduates who missed the grandfather deadline for licensing, now face meeting the state mandated\u00a0 650 hour requirement to be licensed. Even though our basic training program provided 700 hours of training, the clinical course as we used to teach it, was anywhere from 25 \u2013 45 hours.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"Our mission at the new Stillpoint Center is to support the ability of all massage graduates to work\u00a0and continue their skill training.\u00a0 Community Education at GCC is the perfect vehicle to\u00a0design clinical course work for a Certificate of Completion acceptable by the State\u00a0Board.\"\u00a0 \"We can and will absolutely tailor the class to those needing more or fewer than 55 hours, and we'll review transcripts and the state board requirements, says Wachter.\u00a0 The outcome here is exciting: putting these graduates into the workforce doing what they educated themselves to do!\"<\/p>\n<p>The class\u00a0starts January 21, 2012.\u00a0 \u00a0Those interested should call Patricia Wachter at 413-775-1634 or go on line at: <span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/massage\">https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/massage<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenfield Community College Offers Clinical Class for Massage Therapist Not Yet Licensed Solution will put massage school graduates\u00a0 to work Greenfield Community College Stillpoint Center for Advanced Education is offering a clinical class beginning in January 2012 tailored to these graduates who are just shy of state licensing requirements. \u00a0Students who need more or fewer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}