Dear Colleagues,We are pleased to announce that The American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA) and The InternationalFamily Therapy Association (IFTA) will co- sponsor The 2005 International Conference on FamilyTherapy to be held in Washington, D.C. at the Hyatt Capitol Hill, June 22-25, 2005. The conferencetheme is "Politics, Community and Clinical Practice."We invite you to participate in this exciting collaboration which promises to be a rich exchangeamong family therapists from all over the world. Each organization brings its considerableexperience in conference planning and its commitment to sharing cutting edge work with its members.Our website is online now and we have started the process of receiving presentations. We arelooking forward to receiving your presentation, which you can easily process through our website.Please click on www.afta-ifta2005.org for our website and click on the abstract submission buttonto send us your abstract proposal.Our abstract deadline is: December 15th 2004.We hope you can join us.Yours sincerely,Arnon Bentovim - President, IFTALois Braverman - President, AFTAJane Ariel - Conference Co-Chair, AFTAChana Winer - Conference Co-Chair, IFTA