As occupational therapists we regularly interface with the intimate details of clients’ everyday living when people experience occupational challenges. Thus occupational therapists are inevitably poised to receive messages when everyday living has been interrupted by thoughts of suicide.

This technical package represents a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to help communities and states sharpen their focus on prevention activities with the greatest potential to prevent suicide.
These strategies include: strengthening economic supports; strengthening access and delivery of suicide care; creating protective environments; promoting connectedness; teaching coping and problem-solving skills; identifying and supporting people at risk; and lessening harms and preventing future risk. The strategies represented in this
package include those with a focus on preventing the risk of suicide in the first place as well as approaches to lessen the immediate and long-term harms of suicidal behavior for individuals, families, communities, and society. 

Here's another OT quick question session for those readying themselves for their regions standardized assessments (i.e. NBCOT, etc.).  

The Fear-Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire (FABQ) is a patient reported questionnaire which specifically focuses on how a patient's fear avoidance beliefs about physical activity and work may affect and contribute to their pain and resulting disability.  The FABQ is a questionnaire based on the Fear-Avoidance Model of Exaggerated Pain Perception, a model created in attempts to explain why some patients with acute painful conditions can recover while other patients develop chronic pain from such conditions. The FABQ measures patients’ fear of pain and consequent avoidance of physical activity because of their fear.

In Disability and Digital Media, we will explore the relationship between digital technologies and disability in the Internet age. We will consider:

• the evolving impact of social media on representations of disability;
• the politics of experiencing, embodying, and discussing disability online;
• the presence of disability in memes, viral content, and online culture; and
• the role of accessibility in the digital world.

You will learn about:

• Social and medical models of disability;
• Key concepts and terminology for understanding digital disability;
• How social media is changing representations of disability;
• The opportunities and challenges of representing disability online;
• How memes and viral content are being used by disability activists;
• How the tools of digital accessibility can benefit all media users.

Enrollment Link: 

https://www.edx.org/course/disability-and-digital-media-accessibility-representation-and-inclusion

The Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED Ready Reference offers concise step-by-step instructions for responding to emergencies, and includes full-color photos. The primary purpose of the program is to help participants recognize and respond appropriately to cardiac, breathing and first-aid emergencies. This book/program teach participants the knowledge and skills needed to provide immediate care to an injured or ill person until medical professionals arrive. 

Topics Include:

• Checking a Responsive Child or Infant
• Checking a Child or Infant Who Appears to be Unresponsive
• CPR (Child)
• CPR (Infant)
• AED
• Choking (Child)
• Choking (Infant)
• External Bleeding
• Burns
• Anaphylaxis

The capacity to reach every person in a community is one of the major goals for emergency preparedness and response The goal of emergency health communication is to rapidly get the right information to the entire population so that they are able to make the right choices for their health and safety To do this, a community must know what subgroups make up its population, where the people in these groups live and work, and how they best receive information Although knowing this type of information might seem obvious, many jurisdictions have not yet begun the process to define or locate their at-risk populations
To maintain consistency with the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA), this workbook uses the term “at-risk populations” to describe individuals or groups whose needs are not fully addressed by traditional service providers or who feel they cannot comfortably or safely use the standard resources offered during preparedness, response, and recovery efforts These groups include people who are physically or mentally disabled (e g , blind, deaf, hard-of-hearing, have learning disabilities, mental illness or mobility limitations), people with limited English language skills, geographically or culturally isolated people, homeless people, senior citizens, and children.

Dear Occupational Therapists,

...PERSIST....

As occupational therapists we work with clients with learning disabilities.  Unfortunately, there are a lot of myths and untruths about learning disabilities.  As informed providers, it is our job to demystify, clarify, and provide the reality of learning disabilities to our clients and their family members.