SKI Professional Equipment Grant for Young Professionals
The NCATA is pleased to announce that S. Kowalski, Inc., a Bronze Medal sponsor, has agreed to facilitate the awarding of a Professional Equipment Grant (PEG) to NCATA members that have been certified by the BOC for less than 5 years and are employed in a secondary school setting as a full-time employee or through an outreach agreement.
The purpose of the grant is to assist young ATs working in the secondary school setting access therapeutic equipment so that they may utilize their clinical skills to the fullest capacity in the care of injured patients. Often, secondary school clinical settings are underfunded and unable to afford the costly therapeutic modality equipment available in collegiate, professional, and outpatient clinical rehabilitation settings.
All equipment has been donated, refurbished and calibrated by SKI.
Currently the equipment available to eligible members are:
Chattanooga Intelect 500S Hi-volt electrical stimulator - picture
New lead wires
Hi-volt probe
Dispersive pad
Various carbon electrodes
Modality/storage cart
To be considered eligible for this grant program, the applicant must
be:
- certified by the BOC for less than 5 years,
- be a member in good standing of the NCATA,
- licensed in the State of NC as an LAT, and
- employed in a secondary school setting either directly or through an outreach contract.
Interested and eligible NCATA members should complete the application form by June 30th. The application will require the individual to provide their NATA Membership and NCBATE license, provide a description of their current therapeutic equipment resources (make, model, and type), and the equipment for which they are applying.
The application will be submitted and reviewed by the Secondary Schools representative on the NCATA Board of Representatives (currently Dave McAllister of Cary Academy (Raleigh, NC)) and the Secondary Schools Committee of the NCATA. The committee will make a recommendation and rank ordering of eligible applicants to SKI after verifying each individual's eligibility.
SKI will make the appropriate donation to the employing institution on behalf of the NCATA member and the equipment becomes the property of the secondary school.
The NCATA wishes to thank Stan for approaching the association with this opportunity and for supporting our youngest members of the profession.
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