Continuing Education

OOTA Co-Sponsored CE Event

The Association of Safe Patient Handling Regional Conference, a co-sponsored event with the OOTA Central District.

OOTA members get a discounted price.

Click here for details.

OOTA Pediatric Workshop Summer Series is Now ONLINE!

Last summer, 7 regions of Ohio hosted the 2017 Pediatric Summer Workshop Series. Due to personal and work schedules, some of you were unable to attend. OOTA has now produced a webinar to make the morning content of this training available to you. This webinar provides legislation updates, highlights about agency news and activities, practice resources and more. 3.25 CEUs are offered, including an ethics hour. Cost: $50. For more information, click here for the flyer or visit oota.thinkific.com.  

Evening with a Leader in Occupational Therapy

Tina Champagne, OTD, OTR/L, CCAP, FAOTA

Evening with a Leader in Occupational Therapy Brochure FINAL.pdf

This presentation is FREE to all participants! It is sponsored by the University of Findlay's Occupational Therapy Program in an effort to provide quality continuing education to students, fieldwork educators and area practitioners.

The deadline for registration is Friday, February 8, 2019. To reserve your seat, go to www.findlay.edu/OTLeader

Tina Champagne, OTD, OTR/L, CCAP, FAOTA
Dr. Tina Champagne is the Chief Executive Officer for the Cutchins Programs for Children and Families in Northampton, Massachusetts (MA). She is also a professor for American International College’s post-professional OTD program, and an international consultant through her own business, Champagne Conferences & Consultation. She earned an OTD from Boston University and M.Ed and BS degrees from Springfield College.

Dr. Champagne is the vice president of the MA Association of OT and is a fellow of AOTA. She is well known as an expert clinician and consultant working with a variety of state, national, and international mental health, nursing, and OT organizations. She has been on the faculty of the National Association for State Mental Health Program Directors Office of Technical Assistance for the National Executive Technical Institute: Creating Violence Free and Coercion Free Mental Health Treatment Environments for the Reduction of Seclusion and Restraint. Dr. Champagne has many published research, continuing education, and peer reviewed articles, as well as books, book chapters, and has received numerous awards.

Sensory Modulation & Trauma Informed Care: An Introduction.

Join us for a 2-day workshop featuring Tina Champagne OTD, OTR/L, CCAP, FAOTA Friday, Feb. 15, 12-5 p.m. and Saturday, Feb. 16, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. at Alumni Memorial Union, 164 Frazer Street, Findlay, Ohio on the campus of The University of Findlay. Topic: Sensory Modulation & Trauma Informed Care: An Introduction. Expert clinician and consultant, Tina Champagne, will give an introduction to sensory processing, polyvagal theory, trauma and attachment informed care, and seclusion and restraint reduction models. The training will further explore the relationship between neuroscience, sensory processing, trauma, attachment and other mental health symptoms and behaviors in individuals across the lifespan. Identify how the skilled use of sensory approaches in a trauma informed manner supports attachment, autonomic regulation, development and the recovery process. Cost is $300 which earns 13 CEUs. Register at www.Findlay.edu/Making-Connections. This event is part of Making Connections, the University of Findlay Department of Occupational Therapy's continuing education series. Watch the UF OT website for future events. For more information call 419-434-6936 or email [email protected] 

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