• INTROCUCTION

Career Nurse Assistants' Programs, Inc. is a non-profit, tax exempt, educational organization promoting recognition, education, research, advocacy and peer support development for nursing assistants in nursing homes and other long term care settings. (EIN # 34-1782518). The membership of CNAP is the National Network of Career Nursing Assistants.

• HOW IT BEGAN

The title" Career Nursing Assistant" was coined by nursing assistants sitting around a meeting table in Youngstown Ohio in 1977. Sonya Thomas, a NA said, "This is not just a job to me, this is my career." Others agreed and this became the name of the planning group and also the title for the Celebration of NA Experience in Akron, Ohio in 1977. This terminology is now in common usage to identify the experienced nursing assistant, and today's nursing assistant is proud to be designated as a Career Nursing Assistant,

• NATIONAL NURSING ASSISTANTS' WEEK, CAREER NURSING ASSISTANTS' DAY,

The annual observance of Career Nursing Assistants' Day and Nursing Assistants' Week that began in Ohio in 1977 as the Ten Year Club, expanded nationwide by request in 1985. Since that time, this popular nursing assistant recognition program has grown to include thousands of facilities and organizations joining together each year to recognize and honor nursing assistants in long-term care services. Each year, members of the CNAP and NNCNA meet in groups and by phone, email and mail to develop plans for the annual theme, slogan and special projects that you have come to know as National Nursing Assistants Week.

• OTHER PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS OF THE CNAP

• The National Network of Career Nursing Assistants
•Male Nursing Assistants Task Force
•Trainers Task Force
•The Twenty Year Club
•The Most Service Years Awards for Nursing Assistants,
• The Nursing Assistants as Authors Program.
•The Annual National Forums on Nursing Assisting,
•The National Leadership Training Program

• AWARDS

Recipient of:

• The American Society on Aging and Brookdale Center on Aging of Hunter College National Best Practice Award for Human Resources in Aging 1998
•The American College of Health Care Administrators Public Service Award 1997.

Endorsed by:

• The American Medical Director's Association,
•National Association of Directors of Nursing,
•The National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform, and others.

Listed as one of "Twenty Who Made a Difference in Long Term Care," Contemporary Long Term Care, June 1998.

Listed annually in the following calendars and publications:

•Chases Annual Events, Contemporary Books - since 1985.
•The Advocate, the National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform.
•Contemporary Long-Term Care Journal.
• Events Calendar, American Health Care Association.
•Nursing Assistants' Monthly, Frontline Publishing .
•Recognition Calendar, The American Hospital Association.
• Health Observances and Recognition Days Calendar, The American Society for Health Care Marketing and Public Relations and many others.

• DIRECTOR

Genevieve Gipson NA RN MEd RNC

• BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2001

PRESIDENT
William Painter BA, ADC

VICE PRESIDENT
M. Jeanne Flossie NA BA, LNHA

SECRETARY
Colleen C. Hughes NA RN PHD

TREASURER
Laura McElroy NA

ADVISORS

Robert Walter PE

Katherine Kasper MA

Sam McCoy LISW, Director, ElderRights, Area Agency On Aging

Harvey Sterns PHD, Director, Institute for Life Span Development and Gerontology,
The University of Akron

Mary Harper PHD FAAN, Former Director LTC for NIMH,
Director Dr. Mary Harper Gero-Psychiatric Hospital

Sarah Berger RN MPH, Co Director, National Citizen's Coalition for Nursing Home Reform

Martha Mohler LISW, Policy Analyst, National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare

• COMMITTEES 2001

LEADERSHIP COUNCIL STEERING COMMITTEE
Lorrene Maynard CNA
John Booker CNA
Casey Reeder CNA
Jo Ann Poue HHA
MD Garrett STNA
Margaret Fletcher STNA
Michael Colemen CNA
William Painter BA ADC
Genevieve Gipson RN MEd

NATIONAL TWENTY YEAR CLUB AND AWARDS
Margaret Fletcher STNA
Margaret Peek CNA
Elise Tisdale Davis
Barbara Korecki STNA
Betty Brewer STNA
Ivory Allen STNA
Roberto Taloria CNA

PR AND MEDIA
Mary Harrison HR
Katherine Kasper MA

HISTORIAN
Margaret Fletcher STNA
Betty Brewer STNA

INTERNET COMMITTEE
Patti Green CNA
Shari Allen CAN
Kristie Kirschnick RN

MALE TASK FORCE
Co-Chairs: Casey Reeder CNA and John Booker CNA
William Painter BA ADC
Kristie Kirschnick RN

• OTHER COMMITTEES

SUPPORT AND FUNDING

ISSUES AND POSITION STATEMENTS
Staffing
Training and Mentoring
Wage and Benefits
Abuse and Neglect
Career Development

COMMUNICATIONS
Liaison to other organizations
Network News Reporters