National Black Occupational Therapy Caucus
36th ANNUAL NBOTC MEETING
To Members and Supporters of the NBOTC!
Greetings!
I first would like to thank all the Officers and Committee Members for your efforts this year as The Annual Meeting cannot happen without a combined effort. A special thanks to our VP Tara Alexander, Thank You. Thank you all members and students for your continued support and efforts to show TO ourselves above all else that "WE CAN" organize. We can mobilize. We can Do what "they" say we can not do.

They say we can not come together as a people and we can not organize. In our 36th year as the oldest of the Multicultural Organizations we are showing them and doubters among us that we can organize and gather and conduct the business of increasing the ranks of OT. We exemplify the Centennial Vision. We are the diverse workforce. The onus is not solely on AOTA it is on "us" all. We "must" start by increasing our own ranks by each of us encouraging our friends and colleagues to join us in this daunting effort to increase diversity in AOTA. The more of us "JOIN" the NBOTC the more we have already contributed to the Centennial Vision. We have endured by the continued efforts of our predecessors to keep this organization standing for 35 years. Students new and grads, Now it is on your generation, your class, it is your turn to continue this legacy!
POLITICAL ACTION
Political Action
In the 1/25/10 issue of OT Practice, an article (see link below) appeared describing the proposed structural changes to AOTA. I encourage each of you to read this article and give some thought to the impact of this change. While I have some concerns about the entire proposal, what is of greatest concern to me is the elimination of the Ethics Commission.HELP HAITI
HELP HAITI CALL FOR OT’s
There is a great need for Occupational Therapist in Haiti, now! The majority of our patients were multiple traumas, TBI, SCI, Upper/lower extremity fractures, compartment syndromes and multiple nerve palsy.




