Created by WNY OT Fieldwork Consortium, this site offers free resources to fieldwork sites affiliated with our academic programs.

The mission of the WNY OT Fieldwork Consortium is to serve our profession, academic institutions, fieldwork educators, and students by fostering the highest quality occupational therapy fieldwork education, leading to the development of exceptional future OT practitioners. We are committed to providing a community of support, service, and inquiry through collaboration, consolidation, and communication.  

Collaboration

• Working together to provide high quality, supportive fieldwork learning experiences to students that reflect traditional and emerging practice settings.
• Working together to provide high quality, continuing education, resources, and support for fieldwork educators.
• Offering mutual support to academic fieldwork coordinators for effective role performance. 
• Promoting innovation in high quality intraprofessional OT fieldwork, capstone projects, learning, and scholarship within traditional and emerging settings that focus on maximizing health, well-being, and quality of life for all people, populations, and communities through effective solutions that facilitate participation in everyday living.
  

Consolidation

• Streamlining forms, procedures, policies, tasks and information to improve consistency and ease of access for everyone.
  
• Maintaining an easy access portal to information, resources, and communication, for students, fieldwork educators, fieldwork coordinators, faculty, and others. 
  

Communication

• Providing a portal for disseminating relevant professional information to stakeholders.
• Facilitating open and cooperative dialogue among/between academic fieldwork coordinators,  fieldwork educators, students, and the occupational therapy community.
  

Why We Created This Site

We created this site in response to the need for easily-accessed support to fieldwork educators. Practitioners are too busy to surf the web to find information, or attend multiple workshops to help them in their roles of fieldwork educators. By providing an easy-to-remember address (www.OTfieldwork.net), offering web-based resources and fieldwork educator training, and including links to school-specific fieldwork information, we can offer fieldwork educators and coordinators a centralized virtual portal to the OT fieldwork community. Join us!

Do you have suggestions of how to make OTfieldwork.net more useful? Contact us:
Western New York OT Fieldwork Network

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