Benefits of Individual Membership

Your subscription as an Individual Member with WFOT offers a broad range of benefits. As global federation, WFOT:

• 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 official status of WFOT 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 global meetings 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.

• Provides access to archive editions of the WFOT Bulletin dating back to 1979.

• Supports and maintains the WFOT website with resources and information.

• Provides a monthly e-newsletter with the latest WFOT developments and initiatives.

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

• Provides eligibility for a 30% discount for Physiopedia Plus