Good morning and Happy Saturday! It is with great enthusiasm that I announce the F4W Worker Preparation Program. I keep messing with the names because I am a clinician and creative not a marketing person...and truthfully, I dont care what people call it, I just want therapists, teachers and stakeholders to work more constructively towards health, and employment for youth with developmental disabilities.
The website is finally finished! Seeded with the ingenuity of 3 students from George Washington University DPT program (Rotem Itzaki, SPT; Joe Santangelo, SPT; and Jamie Handley, SPT) and myself, we created a website that helps to instruct in collecting outcomes measures and creating fitness programming based on baseline measures and current functional fitness levels. We are linking to the Social Security Physical Exertion Requirements that describe the functional fitness needs for work. We had expert contributions from Eva Jaber and Amanda Iannotti, OTD, OT to round out our offering.
This website is available online, free, open access. It is my hope that people will use it to promote worker fitness for youth with developmental disabilities. Our work is all for naught if it is not shared, and with the soft release of this website we have over 900 views. Please share your feedback via the google form on the site or by direct email to me.
If you have any ideas to make this better, are a clinician or student who would like to make a contribution or need a project (eg infographics to support Total Health, google analytics analysis, website editing/updates, curating more resources or other ideas?) please let me know.
Please share far and wide, pdf is below or png is at the top of this page. If you see on social media please reshare it. Its the best way to get the word out!
All the best for a strong start to this school year
~CCJ
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