Mental Health OT in NYC:
Walk for Mental Health
Occupational therapists working in mental health, wellness and obesity management are featured in a ten-minute video on You Tube. National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) members, occupational therapists and other health care providers discuss the benefits derived from a walking program developed last year in preparation for a NAMI Walk for Mental Illness Awareness event in NYC. WATCH THE VIDEO HERE.
E-Blasts are periodic NYSOTA emails that are packed with information regarding OT practice issues, legislative alerts, upcoming professional development opportunities, and other information relevant to your practice. E-Blasts area a valuable member benefit that help you to stay current and fresh. If you have not yet supplied NYSOTA with a valid email address, please do so by contacting the NYSOTA Office.
If you use a personal email account, please check the settings on that account to ensure that bulk mail from info@nysota.org is accepted (and not automatically directed to a "spam" or "junk mail" folder)
If you use an email address that is routed through a business server, please check with your IT professionals to ensure that the NYSOTA email address is not blocked.
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Member Benefit:
CEU
Tracker
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You’re up for NBCOT renewal and you’re scrambling to remember all of your professional development activities for the past 3 years! Fear not. Your friends at NYSOTA have kept a file of all NYSOTA approved continuing education (CEU) activities you’ve attended over the past three years. And that valuable information is right at your fingertips. Here’s how to access it:
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Just log onto NYSOTA.org
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Move your mouse curser over the Site Menu tab.
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Scroll down to Member Services.
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And click CEU Tracker.
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There, you will find an up-to-date record of NYSOTA-sponsored CEU activities you've attended, including event titles, dates of attendance, hours attended, and number of PDUs earned.
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It’s that easy!
It is important to note that the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy (NBCOT) requires practitioners to earn a minimum of 36 Professional Development Units (PDU) during each three-year cycle. One CEU is equal to ten PDUs.
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IAN Research Findings:
Occupational Therapy
Date First Published: February 15, 2008
The
Interactive
Autism Network (IAN), a project collecting information online from
families of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) from
throughout the United States, reports on the use of occupational
therapy. How many families are using occupational therapy, or related
sensory-based interventions, like sensory integration (SI) therapy,
weighted vests, brushing techniques, or deep pressure, to treat their
children? How difficult is it for families to obtain these treatments,
and to what extent do families feel they have been helpful?
READ MORE...
How To Submit Items For NYSOTA Newsletter
Please note the new expanded format of the
NYSOTA News
.
The Districts have agreed to support the statewide newsletter, so there
is expanded content from each district in the new version of the
newsletter. Articles should be forwarded to the editor electronically
(by email) in Word documents or formats that can be universally read.
Articles
should be limited to a maximum of 120 words. Longer documents that are
received may be edited down at the editor’s discretion. Photographs may
be sent via digital image or in hard copy. All materials submitted
should be electronically sent to Ann Burkhardt
nebrighteyes@yahoo.com
and copied to the, Merrill Zoldan at
mzoldan@aol.com
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Articles may also be submitted to the district newsletter chairperson
for submission with the district content of the news. Please note the
following upcoming line for submission to the NYSOTA News for 2008:
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Submission Due Date
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Publication Date
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June 15
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July 1
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September 15
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October 1
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December 15
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January 1
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Continuing Education
NYSOTA
is an AOTA-approved provider of continuing education. Earn NBCOT PDUs
through NYSOTA state and district workshops and other NYSOTA-sponsored
training activities.
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