Community Practice

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Community Practice

• Will you venture out to the community?

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AOTAs Top 10 Emerging Areas of Practice

• Psychosocial Needs of Children and Youth
• A Role for OT in Preventing School Violence
• Let's Take a Stand on School Violence
• OT Prescription for School Violence
• School Violence - Web Sites
• Occupational Therapys Role in Preventing Youth
  Violence
• Design and Accessibility Consulting and Home
  Modification
• Home Mods A Large and Growing Market
• Crafting User Friendly Environments
• Embracing Universal Design
• Assistive Devices and Home Modifications Save
  Money, Study Shows

• Driver Rehabilitation and Training
• AMA Guideline Will Boost Demand for Driver
  Assessments
• Seniors Will Need OT to Stay in the Drivers Seat
  
• AMA Statement on Impaired Drivers
• Ergonomics Consulting
• Pushing the Envelope Entering the Industrial
  Arena
• Injury Prevention OT Gains a Foothold
• Lending a Helping Hand
• The Business of Ergonomics
• Health and Wellness Consulting
• Lifestyle Redesign and Health
• The Career Doctor
• Elderly Wellness on the Nations Agenda

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AOTAs List Contd

• Low Vision Services
• A Visionary Center
• Optometrists Can Refer to Outpatient OT
• Collaboration Between OTs and Optometrists Can
  Make a Difference in Treating
• Private Practice Community Health Services
• Network, Network, Network!
• Going Solo Is It the Right Move for You?
• Financing Your Own Business
• Community-Based Practice Ideas
• Emerging Models of Innovative Community-Based
  Occupational Practice

• Technology and Assistive Device Development and
  Consulting
• Independent Living Through Technology
• The Future Is Now for Virtual Reality
• Using Videotapes To Help Children With Autism
• Ticket to Work Services
• People With Disabilities and Work Opportunities
  for OT
• Welfare to Work Services
• Getting America Up and Working

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What is community?

• Group of people brought together by cause,
  grouping, disease/diagnosis, ethnicity, and/or
  morals.
• Who will your community be?

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What are your ideas?

• Bham building association- Implementing ADA and
  other federal codes, etc.
• Alabama Power- expanding current continuing
  education programs.
• Expansion of current portfolio ideas?

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Just what is community practice?

• Practicing in the community school systems, home
  health, adult day care, work hardening program
• This is medical model practice in the community
• Need based
• Expert model
• So what is community model practice?

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Community Models

• Grassroots effort
• Strength based
• Collaborative
• A partnership with community players
• Minkler, 1999

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OTs role with community models

• Occupation- how people apply structure to their
  lives how people assign meaning in their life
  (Baum and Law, 1997)
• Activity analysis- break it down
• Group dynamic skills- youve got the skills- use
  them
• Content expert- consult to provide expertise
  for specific content

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Systems vs people

• Your role is to effect the larger system in place
• Profiling the community can help you to
  accomplish this
• social demographics (social medical services
  that exist)
• community demographics (age, ethnicity, sex,
  education)
• See the big picture- facilitate communities take
  control and make choices!
• Fazio, 2001

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Community Head Injury Intervention Program
(CHIIP) An example

• Post TBI clients
• OT faculty and students
• Community partner- Homebound and OTs throughout
  the state
• CEUs offered for the OTs involvement
• Expert panel to review documentation and provide
  feedback
• Duration of program 1.5 years (funded by
  Civitan, ALOTA, and SHRP)

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Roles of the community members

• Class project
• Identify resources various community members can
  provide and level of information (low, medium,
  high)
• Resources can be everything from Chamber of
  commerce to religious, to state level. You
  should be able to rationalize why the resource
  and level of information is important to your
  group.