Barb
Worth Emergent Leader Award ($5,000)
The
Barb Worth Emergent Leader Award is being introduced in 2014. Barbara Worth had
a very distinguished career and contributed significantly to the regulation of
OT in Ontario. She graduated from the first BScOT class at the University of
Toronto (1975) and received a Leadership Award from her peers. Following
graduation, Barbara joined McMaster University Medical Centre. During her 20
plus years of clinical care, Barbara took on many academic and managerial
roles. She was the Director of Complex Continuing Care in her last rote within
the Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation. Barbara was also active within the
Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists (CAOT), including contributing
to the design and testing of the CAOT Certification Exam. At COTO (College of
Occupational Therapists of Ontario) , Barbara held many positions, including
serving as the President from 1999-2000, and COTO Registrar from 2002 to 2013.
Most recently, Barbara had an influential role of spearheading initiatives that
addressed the issues of cross province transportability of OT skills and
internationally educated OT’s through the Association of Canadian Occupational Therapy
Regulatory Organizations (ACOTRO) of which she served in past as Chair. She has
also contributed to the regulatory community through committee work for the
Council on Licensure, Enforcement and Regulation (CLEAR) and the Federation of
Health Regulatory Colleges of Ontario (FHRCO). In 2014, she received the
CAOT Leadership Award posthumously at the CAOT Annual General Conference in Fredericton,
NB. This modest award is to remind a leader of tomorrow to balance their
emotional investment in the challenges at hand with their own wellbeing.
Relaxing and re-energizing with small self-indulgences are also part of
leadership, for often the effort that makes their leadership appear effortless goes
unrecognized by anyone but themselves. Please click on the link below to apply.
Deadline: October 1 annually.
To find out about other COTF awards, please visit www.cotfcanada.org
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