{"id":253,"date":"2011-02-11T20:55:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T20:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/?p=253"},"modified":"2011-02-11T21:32:30","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T21:32:30","slug":"athletic-training-education-storms-the-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/2011\/02\/11\/athletic-training-education-storms-the-capitol\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletic Training Education Storms the Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/files\/2011\/02\/capitol20111.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_260\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-260\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/files\/2011\/02\/capitol20111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-260\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/files\/2011\/02\/capitol20111-300x289.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/files\/2011\/02\/capitol20111-300x289.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/files\/2011\/02\/capitol20111-1024x987.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/files\/2011\/02\/capitol20111.jpg 1504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Athletic Training Students Storm the Capitol to Promote Legislation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>On Tuesday, February 8th,\u00a010 students and all five certified athletic trainers\u00a0from the Truman Athletic Training Education Program travelled to Jefferson City, MO for Missouri Athletic Trainers&#8217; Association&#8217;s\u00a0Day at the Capitol. This year MOATA was advocating with legislators\u00a0on two important issues: insurance reimbursement and head injury legislation. With a number of new legislators in office this year, the students\u00a0made an important contribution to the promotion\u00a0of the profession and had\u00a0hands on experiences with the\u00a0political advocacy\u00a0associated with professional practice. Students had the opportunity to speak to their senators and representatives and educate them on who athletic trainers are, what they do, and the current bills under consideration that MOATA was supporting.\u00a0Several\u00a0students had the opportuity to be recognized by their local representatives and senators at the beginning of session that day.<\/p>\n<p>Students who attended were: Brittany Whittaker, Mike Atkinson, Mike Chastain, Maureen Freeland, Cade Arnold, Courtney Meyer, Kourtney Bowyer, Liz Rodell, Henry Dodd, and Kelsey Lockyer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, February 8th,\u00a010 students and all five certified athletic trainers\u00a0from the Truman Athletic Training Education Program travelled to Jefferson City, MO for Missouri Athletic Trainers&#8217; Association&#8217;s\u00a0Day at the Capitol. This year MOATA was advocating with legislators\u00a0on two important issues: insurance reimbursement and head injury legislation. With a number of new legislators in office this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 22:01:50","action":"Draft","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}