2017 CAOT CONFERENCE 

The Canadian Occupational Therapy Foundation is an organization comprised of occupational therapists, and representatives of related institutions. The COTF aims to fund and support research and scholarship in the occupational therapy field. The COTF awards scholarships and grants to occupational therapists across Canada.

To learn more about COTF and their opportunities, click the button below.

The Canadian Society of Occupational Scientists is an interdisciplinary organization dedicated to supporting the generation and application of knowledge of occupation in its contribution to the promotion of health, well-being, and justice. 

To learn more about the CSOS, click the button below.

From the University of Alberta Department of Occupational Therapy Sleep and Function Lab, this manual can help guide parents to help improve their children's sleep. Created by Cary Brown, PhD, Amelia K. Rajala, MScOT, and Risha Dutt, BOT, MSc Rehab Medicine. 

The Society of Alberta Occupational Therapists (SAOT) offers free resources to promote a safer work environment for occupational therapists and add to your professional development portfolio. 

The modules include (click for a link):

• Fatigue in the occupational therapy workplace

• Psychological Wellbeing in the occupational therapy workplace

• Violence in the occupational therapy workplace

Mark is a mental health advocate who has dedicated his life to opening minds and creating change. Mark regularly shares his personal story with audiences, in which he recounts his struggles with suicide, stigma, the mental health care system, recovery, and hope. Mark aims to break the stigma that prevents people from speaking openly about their mental health.

Watch Mark's TEDx talk where he explores the relationship between suicide and choice.

The theme for this year's gOT Spirit challenge is "changing perspectives". Our goal for this initiative was to engage with the student body and faculty around us, and have them reflect on the things that they do in their daily lives - their occupations!

The inspiration for this project came from some of the work by Dr. Karen Whalley Hammell, as well as her Muriel Driver Lecture at this year’s CAOT conference.

The end result was a visual-representation that depicted a variety of important occupations and the feelings that they may imbue in the daily lives of those we interacted with. It was also a great way to speak about occupational therapy with those around us, while allowing them to pause and reflect for a moment in their busy day.

Sleep problems are common in people with dementia and are often overlooked. This website, created through the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Alberta, compiles resources and literature about this issue and ideas to help.