October is National OT Month- Let's Celebrate!

What can you do to support occupational therapy during OT month? Here are a few suggestions to help get you started. Feel free to share them with your colleagues and don't forget to let everyone know what you are doing by adding a comment to this post.

• Update your phone message and email signature. An idea is adding October is OT Month. Learn more about how occupational therapy helps people live life to the fullest at www.caot.ca

• Make sure your workplace knows it is OT month. Can you send a message to all of your co-workers in your organization? Does your workplace have a newsletter? Contribute an article on occupational therapy.Can you set up a display at your workplace?

• Utilize resources that CAOT has created for OT month. This year, we plan to celebrate OT month all year long by focusing on a different theme each month. This month's theme is Workplace Health and Well-Being 

• Use Facebook to share messages about OT month and OT. Ideas: post a link to CAOT and ask your friends to visit the site and share the post; Like the CAOT Facebook page and share posts with your friends;

• Share what you are doing with the rest of the OT community! Your idea may inspire others. Take pictures or share an idea by sending us an email.

Let's work together to raise the profile of OT all year round.