{"id":1740,"date":"2017-11-28T02:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2017-11-28T08:32:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T13:32:23","slug":"students-engage-in-advocacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/2017\/11\/28\/students-engage-in-advocacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Engage in Advocacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"entry-header\">As part of the OT Management and Supervision course, students are required to engage in professional advocacy &#8211; for the OT profession and\/or for consumers.\u00a0 This year students completed a range of advocacy efforts from providing in-services to home health personal aides, promoting OT&#8217;s role for those with Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, promoting the need for accessible playgrounds at schools, writing letters to government representatives regarding legislation, and more.\u00a0 Below are photos from a career day presentation as well as a link to a blog post written by one of our graduate students.\u00a0 How do you advocate for consumers and\/or the OT profession?<\/p>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/samtobon.wordpress.com\/2017\/11\/05\/advocating-for-individuals-with-mental-health-conditions\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Advocating for individuals with mental health\u00a0conditions<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0by Samantha Tobon<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1743\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1743\" style=\"width: 688px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/career-day-with-ann-marie\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1743 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2017\/11\/career-day-with-Ann-Marie-1024x576.jpg\" width=\"688\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2017\/11\/career-day-with-Ann-Marie-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2017\/11\/career-day-with-Ann-Marie-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2017\/11\/career-day-with-Ann-Marie-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2017\/11\/career-day-with-Ann-Marie.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Ann Marie Potter and graduate students (Megan D. &amp; Alyssa F.) are ready to show why OT is a great career.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the OT Management and Supervision course, students are required to engage in professional advocacy &#8211; for the OT profession and\/or for consumers.\u00a0 This year students completed a range of advocacy efforts from providing in-services to home health &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/2017\/11\/28\/students-engage-in-advocacy\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Students Engage in Advocacy<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-accomplishments","category-student-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1753,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions\/1753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}