RT Business 101- How To Start And Run Your Own Recreational Therapy Business - Part 1

*This course has been pre-approved by NCTRC for 5 clock hours.

Learn about how to start your own Recreational Therapy Business from the ground up, whether it be brick and mortar or online. Learn how to establish a product or service people will pay for, how to do the budget, the advantages and disadvantages of hiring independent contractors vs. employees, how to market and brand your TR business, the potential technologies you will need to effectively run your TR business, and how to grow your already established TR business.

Checklist

  • Understand the foundations of entrepreneurship in TR

  • Understand how Recreational Therapy is commonly perceived and growing in today’s business world

  • Learn the first steps of starting your own Recreational Therapy business including your business plan and how to establish yourself as a legal business

Nathan Lamaster, CTRS

Instructor Bio:

Nathan Lamaster is a nationally Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist (CTRS) from Tyler, Tx who has started a handful of both TR and non-TR businesses throughout his career as well as worked in a variety of TR settings as a practitioner. His current TR businesses are SMART CEUs Hub (an online, NCTRC pre-approved source for Recreational Therapy continuing education), CEU Cloud (a mobile phone application for managing your continuing education transcripts/CEUs), and the Rec Therapy Directory (an ultimate resource site for Recreational Therapists). He also has a passion for seeing TR entrepreneurship grow and is both the author of the book “The Entrepreneur Rec Therapist: The Business Education You Missed In School” as well as the creator/moderator for the TR Entrepreneur Connection Facebook group that connects RT entrepreneurs/educates them. Besides these TR businesses, he is also the inventor/creator of the Pill Puncher which is a medical device that opens up blister packs of medication both effectively and sanitarily.

Nathan Lamaster, CTRS

Founder Of SMART CEUs Hub