Certified Mentor

PURPOSE: This rule outlines the requirements to be a certified mentor. (1) For the purpose of this regulation “certified mentor” shall mean a licensed massage therapist, approved by the board, to provide a board-approved apprenticeship training program. An “apprentice” shall be defined as any person enrolled in a board-approved apprenticeship training program. (2) Any person desiring to be a certified mentor shall submit an application, provided by the board, and applicable fee along with evidence documenting at least five (5) years professional practice in massage therapy with an average of four hundred fifty (450) hours per year of massage teaching and/or massage practice hours. Documentation may include, but is not limited to, a combination of the following: (A) Income tax forms; (B) Professional massage therapy association membership(s); (C) Certificates of continuing education in massage therapy; (D) Business license(s); (E) Office rent or lease agreement(s); (F) Yellow page advertisements with dates; (G) Printed advertisements with dates; (H) Professional liability insurance; (I) Cancelled checks related to the massage therapy practice that shall include, but not be limited to, payment for rent, services rendered, and/or massage therapy supplies; (J) Verifiable letter(s) from employer(s); (K) Verifiable letter(s) from a school owner, program director, and/or former students; (L) Verifiable letter(s) of referral for massage therapy services from a licensed healthcare professional; (M) Verifiable letter(s) of confirmation from clients of massage therapy experience; (N) Work log or client records consisting of client’s name, address, and/or telephone number, appointment date, and time period worked on client; or (O) Student roster consisting of student’s name, address, and/ or telephone number, date of attendance, and time period of attendance. (3) Upon board approval of the apprenticeship training program, the certified mentor shall represent the program as, “approved to operate by the Missouri Board of Therapeutic Massage” on all advertisements, publications, and solicitations. AUTHORITY: sections 324.240 and 324.245, RSMo Supp. 2009.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 197-4.010. Original rule filed Feb. 25, 2000, effective Sept. 30, 2000. Moved to 20 CSR 2197-4.010, effective Aug. 28, 2006. Amended: Filed Aug. 21, 2007, effective March 30, 2008. Rescinded and readopted: Filed Aug. 27, 2009, effective Feb. 28, 2010. *Original authority: 324.240, RSMo 1998, amended 1999, 2008 and 324.245, RSMo 1998, amended 1999, 2003, 2006.