OTS 198: Advocacy Wins Every School-Based OT Should Know
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Welcome to the show notes for Episode 198 of the OT Schoolhouse Podcast.
In this episode, Jayson discusses the often-overlooked but critical role that state and national occupational therapy associations play in protecting and advancing the profession. He highlights major advocacy wins from the past year, including AOTA's successful defense of Section 504, California's groundbreaking administrative credential legislation, Nevada's prevention of ABA encroachment on ADL services, and Nebraska's modernized OT Practice Act.
Whether you're already a member or considering joining your state or national association, this episode offers compelling reasons to get involved—from joining and volunteering to simply sharing advocacy updates with colleagues.
🎧 Listen now to discover how your support can secure the future of school-based occupational therapy and ensure OT continues thriving in education settings.
Learning Objectives
— Learners will identify the role of AOTA and state associations in protecting the occupational therapy profession at local, state, and national levels.
— Learners will identify recent advocacy wins that impact school-based OT practice, including Section 504 protections, IDEA, ESSA, and state-level administrative credential initiatives.
— Learners will identify how supporting professional associations through membership strengthens advocacy and ensures the sustainability of OT services in schools.
Quotes
"If students cannot get federal grants for OT school, they might pursue degrees where funding is available, and that's 10% of our future workforce gone."
— Jayson Davies, M.A., OTR/L
"AOTA isn't there to provide CEUs — they're cheap protection for our jobs, making sure we don't lose our profession in the schools."
— Jayson Davies, M.A., OTR/L
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Episode Transcript
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Amazing Narrator
Hello and welcome to the OT schoolhouse podcast. Your source for school based occupational therapy, tips, interviews and professional development now to get the conversation started, here is your host, Jayson Davies, class is officially in session.
Jayson Davies
Hey there, and welcome back to the OT school house podcast. Thank you so much for being here. My name is Jayson, and today we have no special guest. It is just me. It is you. It is ot month. And yeah, let's just have a conversation. I want to have a real conversation around ot month, around advocacy, around a ot a, around your specific state association, and about all the state specific associations. Here in California, we have ot tag. In Colorado, they also have ot tag. I think Connecticut actually switched it up and has the Connecticut ot association. So they're coda, I believe. But yeah, whatever your state is, I want to talk about exactly what they are doing your state, as well as a ot a as well as all of us as individual occupational therapy practitioners in our own locales, if you want to call them that, our own regions, our own areas within those states, there is a lot of good things going on within the world of occupational therapy, especially school based occupational therapy. And a lot of times, we like to focus on the negative things, you know, what? What state organizations aren't doing, what the national organization isn't doing. That's what we kind of get caught up on a lot, but we forget that there is a lot of good going on. And so while you know, April is a great time to celebrate what is going well in occupational therapy and to celebrate us as individuals within occupational therapy, it's also a great time to talk about our state and national organizations about what they are doing to protect us as occupational therapy practitioners and to make sure that we don't lose our jobs in the schools and that we can continue to service those who we really enjoy servicing in the schools, you know, supporting the students and supporting the teachers, and maybe, just maybe, if you're in a state that allows it moving up into an administrative position where You can support more students and more teachers and many, many other you know, professionals and paraprofessionals to support all the students that we that we hope to help. So in this episode, I want to really focus in on some advocacy efforts, some advocacy wins at all the different levels, both. I shouldn't say both. I should say all the above at the local level as well as at the state level, and then even at the national level. I think we're going to start with the national level, because that really applies to every single person listening, whether or not you are a member of a ot a or not. Now before I do jump into exactly everything that a ot A is doing and some of the states have done this past year, I do want to kind of just make my general argument for why every single ot practitioner should be a member of both their state association as well as their national association and maybe even the World Federation of OT but primarily your state and your national organization, which all of us have, is a o, T, A. Now the way that I like to justify this, both for myself as well as for others, is that a ot a and our state association news, they're not a product that we pay for it. It's not like an exchange of money for an individual service, right? We are not paying a ot a for CEUs. To some degree, we get CEUs with our A ot a membership. And in some states, you get CEUs for your state membership. You might also get access to special events, like going to inspire or going to your state conference. You might be able to go out on a hike like I did with my region one and region two director here in Southern California and several other ot practitioners that live in Southern California, we took a nice little hike, and those are some of the, you know, awesome extra things that we get as part of being a member. But the real, you know, the crux and the core of membership, it's, it's an investment. It is an investment in our professional protection and a ot a and our status organizations, they are the only people out there fighting for us, right? We work for school districts, but school districts are not at our state fighting for us. They're not even necessarily fighting for us all the time in the local school district, even ot practitioners, right, that aren't in the schools, if they're in the hospital, you know, the hospitals aren't fighting to keep ot within Medicaid and Medicare. No, that is what OTC is doing. And the Arizona ot Association, the Oregon ot Association, and east coast, New York, Connecticut, you know, Virginia, all those ot associations, that is what they are doing. And so this member. Membership that we have with our state organization. It's not like most of our monetary, you know, exchanges. We're not getting a product in return for our investment. Instead, we are getting protection in our profession for our investment in these memberships. You know, our association membership helps those organizations to pay for policy analysis, for legislative monitoring, to keep up with all the different state senators and national Senators and House of Representatives, to see what they're up to and and to keep an eye on other professions. You know, even some people who we call our besties, like speech and PT and and some people that we might call foes like ABA, making sure that everyone is staying in line. I actually have some information about ABA going on with Nevada and just a moment as we get to some of our wins. But these are the types of things that our organizations help to protect. They pay for lobbyists within states, so that those people can go and talk to the state senators and State House of Representatives. They also build relationships with those people in government so that we can advance our profession and just kind of see what is going on when something hits the van, like many things have in the last year, a OTs is there, and, you know, they hop in their car, they jump on Zoom meetings, and they go and check in with the people that are so important in making decisions in Washington, DC or here in California, they're in Sacramento, and wherever your state is, They are there. I don't know if you get emails from your state association, but a lot of times they are the ones you know, sending out an email to us, saying, hey, we need your help everyone. Copy and paste this letter. Put your heading on it. Add your own story to it. Make it your own, but please send it to your senator and your House of Representative. Those are the types of things that our organizations are doing for us. So the key line here when it comes to understanding your state and as well as a ot a our associations, we are not buying benefits. We're not spying CEUs, that is not their purpose to give us extra things for our dues. We are really helping to fund representation of our profession of occupational therapy at all areas of the government, and that is key, because we sometimes, I think a lot of us see how fragile our profession is at sometimes, but we also don't think it could happen to us. Right? OTs not going away. But if we don't fund, if we don't pay, if we don't support our organizations, that could become real one day, other professions are willing to pay, and they're willing to pay for lobbyists to advance their ideas, their support mechanisms, they want the money that comes to occupational therapy. That's the, you know, most blunt way to say it, and they're willing to put money behind it. We're even seeing private equity get into the area of pediatric therapy services, not just occupational therapy, but pediatric therapy services in general. And wherever there's money, there are lobbyists. So we're not buying benefits when you join your state or or national organization you're buying representation of occupational therapy. Ooh, okay, I got a little worked up there talking fast if you're listening to this at two times the speed. Sorry about that, but I'm going to slow down here because I do want to highlight some really cool things that actually have happened in the past year legislatively, both with a ot a as well as at the state organization side, some of these things I've talked a little bit about, I've mentioned a few times, some of the things going on here in California, so that California Occupational therapists can actually become an administrator within the School District setting, and kind of move up, you know, not just get more pay, but also have more say of what's going on within a school and and sharing how occupational therapy can better support all students, not just students with special education, with special education services, who have an IEP and and OT is on that IEP, We know that ot practitioners can support many more students, and so that's something that here in California, we've been working on for several years. Shout out to Lisa Tess, Julie Bissell and a few others who have just been like on this for the past decade or so, really working on this, and it's been a major milestone. It's been a really big win, not just for them, but also for OTC in general, and that includes myself as an OTs member, right? Like, this is really cool stuff that we're doing. So, okay, got a little worked up there. You know, got talking about a ot a got excited talking about ot attack and all. All the really cool things that I know they're doing and the reason that I'm excited to support them, but I want to slow it down now and starting with a ot a talk about some advocacy wins, or also some areas that that a OTs still really focus on. Maybe it's not a win yet, but they're focused on and just share with you some things that are going on now. I want to preface this with, I am not, you know, volunteering with with a ot a in any capacity. I am not on the pack or anything like that the political action committee. These are things that have just been made publicly available through their website, through the newsletters that they send out, and some of those might be kind of things that you're maybe I get them because I'm a member. I don't know they send out the newsletters, but that's where a lot of this information is coming from, as well as their updates on their website. So again, these are some really cool things that a ot a has been doing for us, specifically as school based ot practitioners, and it's something that I think is worth being a member for. So the first thing is, is that a OTs actively advocating for school based ot practitioners at the federal level. They've been doing it for years. You've heard Abe Safar on this very podcast talking about what they are doing. I mean, even as recently as last year, he came on to talk a little bit about everything that's going on at the Department of Education and how a ot A is working to make sure that idea stays intact, and make sure that, you know, 504, stay intact. In fact, that's one of the big things that they worked on this past year. Both a ot A and the state associations, they work together to make sure that five oh fours were not deemed as unconstitutional. Last year, around this time, there were some states who fought to say, You know what, five oh fours are not constitutional. We don't necessarily need to be a part of them. We don't need to follow rule 504 and while a ot a as well as the, believe it was 17 different states jumped together and they said, You know what? No, we are going to make sure a, we monitor this. B, we are going to step up and say something, where we have where we have something to say. And C, we are going to find out how to be part of those conversations, whenever and wherever we can be. In the end, their hard work really paid off, and they were actually able to, you know, send out a notice saying that all the states were no longer all 17 states were no longer seeking to have section 504, declared as unconstitutional. And that was a big win. I mean, it's hard to believe that that was only about a year ago, maybe even slightly less than a year ago at the time of this podcast recording, and that was something that our A ot a membership dues helped to support, as well as state organizations within those 17 states, their membership dues also helped to support making sure that 504 did not go anywhere. I briefly mentioned, you know, the Department of Education and idea that has been an ongoing thing right now, right during this administration, there's been a lot of changes at the Department of Education, and I know that every single day, the amazing people that work in the legislative department at a ot a are constantly monitoring laws like ESSA and idea and making sure that the Department of Education isn't trying to dismantle these, or if they are trying to dismantle it, making sure that they have their voices in the room to let them know the Department of Education, you know, where occupational therapy, where the association of OT for all of America stands on ESSA and idea, and how occupational therapy practitioners like us support students who are served under IDEA or ESSA. And so this is very important. It's not something that we see right, like they're not sending out an email every day saying, Hey, today we sat in a meeting with this assistant director at the Department of Education, and we talked about this and this and this. No, they right, like that would be boring. No one wants a newsletter in their inbox about every conversation they have with someone. But you can be sure that all the wonderful people over there are doing amazing things to make sure that we don't get excluded. Like, we are very lucky that OT is directly mentioned in idea. Like, there are some professions that are not mentioned, and you know what? They're the ones that are probably fighting to say, hey, OTs mentioned. How do we get mentioned as well? And those are the same ones that we have to be careful of, because there's a possibility that if they get in there, then ot gets shaken up a little bit, and we don't want that to happen. So that's why it's very good to see a ot a actively making sure that things are going okay, because it would be very easy for a ot a to say, You know what, let's focus on Medicaid and Medicare. Care that maybe focuses more on the adult population and isn't as important as a school based OT. But the truth is, is that you know, a ot has everyone's interest at at heart all ot practitioners, I should say, and they have, you know, legislative advocates for us, not only at school based OT, but also for ot practitioners working in acute hit care and sub acute rehab and all that, you know, fun stuff. But of course, we focus on school based ot here on the podcast. And finally, the last point that I want to bring up for a ot A is that they're actively helping protect the future of the OT workforce. And this is something that is currently in the new cycle, with in respects to the amount that graduate students can actually borrow through specific federal grants for programs such as an occupational therapy schooling program, right to go to a university and get your master's or get your doctorate in an OT program. Now I will be the first to tell you that this is not my area of expertise. And in fact, when it first started to kind of come up, I was like, Is this even something I should really give much thought to? Like, how does this really impact me? But again, the more information that a OTs has put out, the more I start to understand how it definitely impacts us, because if, if students cannot get a federal grant right for occupational therapy school, then it is likely that they might look somewhere else, and they might look toward a degree where they can get funded. And because, you know, it takes money to go to school, and so if someone does go to another program to get whatever degree, let's say, just for the ease of it, they go pursue the medical doctor round, because they can get funding for that. They can get help from the government to go get their MD. Well, that is someone who is likely very smart, leaving our profession and going to another profession. And even if only you know, let's just put a relatively low number, I think 10% of people do that. Well, that's 10% of the future ot workforce that is gone right like those are people that will not be in the workforce and that later then impacts ot because if hospitals and schools and other areas where OTs work cannot hire OTs because there aren't enough of us, they will get creative, and they will figure out different ways to still support or provide the support that We provide in a different way. I'm not going to venture out to think about all the different ideas that that might look like. But as I mentioned earlier, there are other professions looking to capitalize on things like that, so we had to be careful about that like it is something that impacts us, even though we don't need graduate funds as practicing ot practitioners to get an OT degree. So yeah, that is just something that a ot A is on top of. It's still a little bit of an ongoing issue right now, but I'm pretty sure that we got the right people on it. And a ot a is there when they're on top of things, they do a pretty good job at making sure things get done. Of course, not everything, but, but they're pretty good, so I have faith in them all right. So that's going to wrap up here our conversation around what a ot A is doing for us as school based occupational therapy practitioners. And I hope that you better understand that when someone asks you, like, Hey, why or why aren't you a member of a ot a response isn't something like, oh, it's really expensive for the CEUs they provide. Well, they're not trying to provide CEUs. Those are an added benefit, but really they are cheap protection for our job. You know, a few $100 a month and and I know a few $100 is not a little, and it's for some people, it's a little. For some people, it's a lot. And you know, depends on where you are in your career, everything that's going on in your life, but to a degree, it is an insurance policy to make sure that we get to maintain our profession. And you know, the older you get, the less quote, unquote time you're going to have in your profession, the closer you get to retirement, right? But we want to protect our profession for long time to come, right? So let's continue to protect a ot a so that they can protect us all right. Now let's move on to state associations here, just like a ot a, every state is advocating on our behalf. If you're in Colorado, you've got Colorado advocating on your behalf. And one thing I didn't say actually at the top of the show or while I was talking about a ot A, is that we have to remember that these states and national organizations, they're advocating on our behalf, even if we're not paying for them. Now that is not a reason to not pay for them, because the more we pay, the more they are. Are able to advocate, but I say that they're advocating for us, and I'm not saying like, Oh, they're advocating for us if you're a member, because the fact is that they're advocating for you whether or not you are a member, because they're advocating for occupational therapy. But anyways, let's talk about the state associations here, and I'll start with California, because I know California. I live in California, and I see the updates regularly. And this year we had really exciting news, and that A, b1, 009, finally made it through the government. Went through all the rounds, went through the House of Representatives, went through the Senate, and finally got signed by our governor this year, which was the one step missing last year, and it is officially in place. And what this allows us to do is to earn our administrative credential. It didn't add any additional work to become a school based OT, which I think some people feared. They didn't make it like you had to go to extra courses in OT school, whether or not you're going to go into school based OT or you didn't have to graduate ot school and then go take another year of school in order to get this No, once you have your ot license, you can work in the schools. And then once you have so many years within the schools, and you go to an administrative credentialing program, just like any teacher would have to do to become an administrator, you can then become an administrator. Now, this is really cool. It's something that Otac has been working on for over 10 years, you know, and it's something that we finally got past, and it's really awesome. It really shows the impact that our membership dues can have on a state organization, right like this wasn't easy. Took many years. I can only imagine the amount, percentage wise, of OTs budget that had to go toward this one thing that supports about 25% of occupational therapy practitioners in any given state, but it was only possible because of our dues. It was only possible because, you know, Otac members said, You know what, I'm willing to keep paying. And thank you to every single they're probably not listening, but thank you to every single Otac member who's not in the schools that continued paying their dues to OTC, knowing that Otac was working on this rather than maybe something in the mental health field that they work in, or in the acute rehab field that they work in, like that that's important. Like that speaks a lot. You know, our OT Association support everyone, not just school based ot practitioners. And so it's really cool to see that OTC thought it was that important to support school based ot practitioners to push this through. It also took a lot of support from real school based ot practitioners. You know, this is something that I have worked on in the past. This is something that many of my colleagues, who I know in text, have been working on for years, and it's really cool to see this come through. So that was one example of, you know, ot attack, a state organization coming through, but there have been even more. So that's one example of a state organization coming through for us, but there have been more. Some of them don't necessarily always look like, advancing the profession forward, like, you know, getting an administrative credential. Others are, you know, revamping things that are already in existence. Case in point, Nebraska's organization worked to modernize their occupational therapy practice, act. And I don't know all the details of this, but this is something that, you know, they celebrated, and a OTs also celebrated with them. You know, this is important. We often say, you know, research, you know, needs to be within 10 years, and guiding documents, we want to be as recent as possible. But, you know, the same is true for our Practice Act, and it's hard to get practice acts changed because they typically have to go through the legislative process, something that is really I'm starting to see the value of within OT is that we are licensed once again. Thank you state organizations for making that possible, but we are licensed, and therefore we are protected to some extent. I actually wrote an email newsletter about this a few weeks ago that part of the reason that I'm not as worried about AI taking over occupational therapy. It's because we have this licensure in place. But if we don't protect our licensure by updating our OT practice acts within our states and making sure that you know everything is recent and that there's research behind our practice, act, then that opens up the door for AI. That opens up the door for other professions coming in and kind of stealing our thunder a little bit. So I want to give a big shout out to Nebraska and say congratulations to all of you who worked on updating your practice act. I know that is no small feat. I know it takes money, it takes time, it takes energy, countless endless nights, I'm sure. So congratulations on updating. In Your Practice Act. And finally, the third example of a big win from a state organization comes from Nevada. Well done, Nevada. You helped to pause a proposal that would have allowed ABA providers to address ADLs and IADLs through Medicaid. That deserves a clap. I hope you can hear that. I'm clapping right now. That is huge. I have heard over the last, you know, decade over decade period, school based ot practitioners complain about this on the Facebook groups, on our community, everywhere they can, about ABA providers overstepping their bounds, not just with IADLs and ADLs, but also in the world of sensory and we're seeing this. And this is a big win, like, not only because did they stop something in Nevada, but news reverberates right, like I'm talking about something in that happened in Nevada to OT practitioners all around the country that ot stepped up and prevented ABA from encroaching on our our ground of IADLs and ADLs, and that news is going to spread. And so the next time that someone says, oh, well, you know, ABA is encroaching on my ground, well now we can say, You know what? They tried. They tried in Nevada, and they got shut down. We helped them. The Nevada ot practitioners stepped up, paid their membership dues, and the Nevada ot association took care of this, along with support from a ot a and made sure that it wasn't going to happen that's going to reverberate across the entire nation, and I'm glad, because that means it is now less likely that we are encroached by ABA fun on IADLs and ADLs in California and in Arizona, and then all the other states surrounding Nevada and way beyond Nevada. So that is a win for the Nevada ot Association. You deserve a round of applause from every ot every ot practitioner, not just those in Nevada. That was huge. So thank you for doing that. We appreciate it and again, you know, it just goes to show what a state ot association can do when they have the support, both financially as well as from volunteers. Yeah, you know, we can do hard things, all right, so a OT, a has been helping us as school based ot practitioners at the federal level, within the Department of Education and beyond. We've now seen that in the States. You know, Nebraska has an updated Practice Act Nevada stopped ABA from encroaching on our ADL practices in California here, we stepped up to make sure that ot practitioners can climb into the role of an administrator level in the school based ot realm. So we got national, we got state. I also want to give out a big shout out to you and every single other ot practitioner who has advocated this year and beyond. Many of us, many of you, have advocated for additional staffing in your school district, or maybe you advocated for caseload and workload caps. Maybe you advocated to join a union so that the union can negotiate on your behalf for caseload and workload caps. These are things that don't make the news, right? You're not going to see this on Fox or ABC or CBS. Like, these are small little things. It might not even make the local paper, in fact, but they are big. Like, these are tiny things that not only affect you, but affect your ability to support the teachers and support the students that you serve, and so I want to give a big shout out to you. I hear these stories. You know, I can't think of all of them off the top of my head, but you know, I've gotten text messages and emails and Instagram threads like, hey Jayson, thank you for your caseload. Course we are implementing a workload cap in our school district, or, Hey, Jayson, you know, maybe it's someone I'm not trying to, you know, throw out my workload course out there and say that's the way it's happening. But, but I am getting people who did or did not take the workload course and are saying, hey, Jayson, you know, we just transitioned to a three to one program, and just like, awesome, because people are advocating, you know, I'm hearing from ot practitioners who have stood up and it took two years, but they are part of their union now, and now they have collective bargaining, and that collective bargaining team is helping to get them caseload and workload caps in place. Those are big like that took absolutely no money to OTC, no money to a, OT, a it just took time and energy from local ot practitioners, and that is absolutely fantastic, whether you know, you just increase your ability support students in special education, or maybe you advocated for MTSS so that you can. Support every student on campus that is huge. So thank you for advocating for you and your students. All right, so I've addressed the three areas that I really wanted to address. I addressed the national level, the state level, as well as the local level, where you have a big impact, and your ability to work at a small team can have a huge impact. And now I just kind of want to wrap up here, and you know, say, I do believe that every ot practitioner should be a member of a OT. I also believe that every member should be I also believe that every practitioner should be a member of their state organization. And if you practice in multiple states, then you know, maybe if you can afford it, be a member of both states, if you have the ability to time wise volunteer, maybe you're retired, maybe you work part time and want to have an impact on the profession, go volunteer, be a part of the association that helps sustain our profession, whether that's A member of your state organization, or even a ot a other things that you can also do is just keep informed of what's going on within the world of occupational therapy. When your state does send out a email saying, Hey, we're working on this, go to your state website and look up the bill number. And you know, what does that actually mean? How will it impact you? Read it a little bit and and show up to the meetings that your state organization has, and chime in and share your thoughts like these are all ways that you can support ot without even paying well, you probably have to pay your dues to show up at meetings, but you can keep tabs of what's going on, even if you're not necessarily paying all the dues, because you can kind of keep track. But they make it easy for us. They send us out the important things when we need to know it, so that we can take action the annual dues that we pay for a ot a and our state organizations. They don't feel exciting. They don't feel like, you know, we went to Target, we gave even up to $300 and we got something in return. Like we don't see that instant gratification. But I would argue that they are some of the most important dollars that we can spend for the future of occupational therapy, and specifically the future of school based occupational therapies, so the annual dues that we pay, they don't feel exciting. This isn't handing over our credit card for a $300 charge at Target and getting something awesome in return. This is something where we spend $300 and we see nothing, at least not right away. But the reward does come. The reward comes in the way that Otac and Otac of Colorado and Nevada and New Jersey and Virginia and a ot A Of course, give back to us through their advocacy efforts, the things that we don't see, the things that they don't share with us in newsletters, but we know behind the scenes is making our profession better and also securing our profession from other professions who might be trying to get into some of the areas that we know we can best serve our clients, our students, and the teachers that we support. So now I just have a few challenges for you, depending on where you are. If you're not a member of your state ot Association, please consider joining. Just type into Google your state ot Association. It'll be easy to find. It'll be easy to join. Just do it. Put it on otter, renew if you can, and just let that go. Let the idea of knowing that you support your ot Association and your state their advocacy efforts. Let that be enough to make this an exciting purchase. If you're already a member of your state association, consider joining a ot a just in the same exact way. Head on over to a ot a.org and join today. Hit that renew automatically button so that it just renews auto. You don't even have to deal with it. You can split it up into monthly payments or annual payments, whatever is easier for you. If you're already a member of both of your associations, consider looking at the volunteer page see where you can get involved. It could be something as simple as you know, a quarterly meeting on zoom that only takes up four hours a year. Or if you want, you can consider running for a position that takes up considerably more time, I suggest, first, by volunteering for maybe an upcoming event, or maybe a subcommittee that only meets a few times a year. So you can just get your feet wet there if you're not ready to volunteer, I totally understand that there's other ways that you can also support. When you see an email come through from your state association, forward it to your ot colleagues. When you see something on social media from your ot association or a ot a repost it or send it to your colleagues so that they know as well. If we assume that everyone knows what our state association is doing, or we assume that everyone knows what a ot A is doing, but that's not the case, so forward it to your friends, or tag them in the comments so that they see what a ot a or your state is doing as well. Another thing you can do reply to an email those state association emails that we get that you know, inform us about what's going on, hit respond and send two sentences. Say, You know what, hey, so and so whoever sending the email. Thank you so much for this email. Thank you for your advocacy efforts. I would love to get involved. Let me know if there's anything I can do, or even if you can't say that part about let me know what you what I can do to get involved. That little, simple email that you send saying, Hey, thank you for informing me I appreciate you, goes a long way in supporting them as well. All right, so this ot month, let's celebrate our profession by supporting the people and the organizations that are helping to protect it. Take one step forward, whether that's joining an association, sharing about an association, or volunteering at an association, be a part of what moves our profession forward. Be a part of making sure that ot never goes away. All right. With that. I hope you enjoy your ot month, and I will see you next time on the OT schoolhouse podcast.
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