Advocacy and education

✔️Sent Letters to Canada’s Political Leaders re: Climate Action, Health, and Occupational Therapy in the 2025 Election (Mar 2025)

➡️ Write your own letter using ours as a template

➡️ Bring questions about climate change to a local town hall

✔️OT-CAN founder Jeff Boniface was a panellist at the CAOT JEDI Network and represented OT-CAN (Nov 2024)

✔️OT-CAN founder Giovanna Boniface advocates for sustainable occupation therapy with the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care (Oct 2024)

[Past workshop] CAOT Conference 2024- Climate Change- The Role of Occupational Therapists and Health Professionals (May 2024)

[Past workshop] CAOT Conference 2024- Climate Change & Sustainable Occupations: Facilitated Discussion (May 2024)

✔️OT-CAN responds to Government of Canada Regulatory Framework for an Oil and Gas Sector Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cap (February 2024)

📖Greening Placements and Practice: Occupational Therapists’ Guide to Reducing Plastic Use– UBC OT Fieldwork Education Blog (February 2024)

📖Climate Action Embedded into OT Practice: Thoughts for your OT Students – UBC OT Fieldwork Education Blog (April 2023)

[Past workshop] DisruptOT- Low Carbon OT: The role of occupational therapists and other health professionals in climate mitigation? (April 2023)

👂CAOT Conversations that Matter- Episode 22: Planetary Health: What role do we play? (May 2023) 

✔️OT-CAN signs letter calling for support of the Academic Institutions’ Declaration on Planetary Health (November 2023)