WFOT advocates for the human right to participate in chosen meaningful occupations and represents the profession in its role of improving world health and wellbeing. A WFOT Individual Membership subscription provides personal benefits that also contribute to the advancement of the profession globally. Your subscription:

Ensures professional representation at key international stakeholder events and initiatives that progress the relevance of occupational therapy at a global level.

Provides occupational therapy expertise to inform and influence international policy and strategy development at a health systems level.

Ensures the WFOT’s official status with the United Nations and World Health Organization is maintained, enabling collaboration across a range of international and regional workplans including Disability and Rehabilitation, Mental Health and Human Resources.

Enables the interaction and representation of national occupational therapy associations at a global meeting to strategise, govern and lead the Federation.

Provides resources to develop global strategies to increase occupational therapy human resources, evidence informed practice, quality education provision and research priorities.

Maintains and publishes the Minimum Standards for the Education of Occupational Therapists, an internationally recognised benchmark for occupational therapy education.

Implements the WFOT approval and reapproval process for occupational therapy education programmes and maintains the database of over 2000 education programmes globally.

Publishes timely Position Statements and Public Responses to critical issues to support advocacy and occupational therapy.

Develops innovative free online learning resources to advance practice and facilitate knowledge translation to the occupational therapy community.

Provides dedicated interactive forums and websites to enable engagement with the profession globally.

Maintains a social media presence to communicate with the profession and other stakeholder groups.

Hosts World Occupational Therapy Day each year, producing themed promotional materials and resources.

Coordinates the translation of publications into a range of languages to increase accessibility and dissemination.

Creates a network of Individual Members with the option of being contacted about international projects that match your expertise and interest.

Provides eligibility to Individual Members to apply for dedicated research funding.

Provides a WFOT Individual Membership Certificate to provide evidence of your membership and contribution to WFOT and the international occupational therapy community.

Enables the production of a twice-yearly international professional journal - the WFOT Bulletin, Individual Members can access all issues dating back to 1979.

Supports and maintains the WFOT website with resources and information, including Individual Member Only access to additional benefits.

Provides a monthly electronic newsletter to keep informed of the latest WFOT developments and initiatives.

Enables an International Congress to take place every four years, with discounted rates for Members.