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Help JRunners Help Those In Need
(A message from OJOTC member Chesky Rand)
What would make me get off the couch and join in a 200km relay race from Brooklyn to the Catskills
this summer? A friend in need!. A young man in Brooklyn, only 39 years old and a father of five has been struck with ALS,
also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. As you can imagine, the medical bills are huge and the family has suffered a severe loss
of income due to his inability to continue working. Thus began Jrunners. JRunners was started by three Brooklyn business men
who know this man and could not sit by without wanting to help. Jrunners slogan is "We run for those who can’t. Because
I believe so strongly in this goal, I’ve decided to run as part of a 10 man team starting on Wednesday, July 28th ,
2010. My objective is to raise at least $5,000 by race day and I hope you will help me reach this goal. All donations are
100% tax-deductible and every cent goes to the family, all expenses are being covered by corporate sponsors. Please
contribute, either by visiting my web page at the Jrunners site http://www.jrunnersrelay.org/my/Chesky or by sending a check, made payable to Jrunners USA Inc, and mailed to 3602 Quentin
Rd # 613 Brooklyn, NY 11234. You can sponser me or any other runner. However please indicate who you’re sponsoring
and any message you’d like to insert on the ticker. If your company has a matching gift program , your gift may be doubled
or tripled. If you send the paperwork with your check, JRunners will complete the form and send it to your employer.
Thank you for helping a family in desperate need.
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Have You Read This Article in the August 31, 2009 Issue of OT Practice?
"Evidence-Based Practice Resources - Health and Wellness" was written by OJOTC
Member Marian Arbesman and Deborah Lieberman.
The article explores the role that health and wellness have played in the OT
profession and how the focus has shifted slightly over time into two new paths.
It is interesting and informative reading for all OT's and OT students.
Congratulations to Marian for her efforts in adding to the base of information
as part of AOTA's Centennial Vision.
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Check Out the June 20th Issue of the Jewish Press for the special magazine "Building Blocks"....
...and an article on Page 28 on the growth of OT as a career for young frum women written by Peggy Gurock
of the OJOTC that is entitled:
HookedOnOT
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Now Available -- OJOTC Casual Shirts
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How We Got Started....
January 20, 2006
Tamar Fromm had planned
to spend Shabbat in her hotel room. Friday night dinner would entail little more than a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich.
An Orthodox Jew, Fromm, who keeps kosher, brought sandwich ingredients from home in New York to Long Beach, Calif., where
she was attending the annual conference of the American Occupational Therapy Association.
By Friday afternoon, however,
Fromm, an occupational therapist who treats people with multiple sclerosis, had met several other observant Jews attending
the conference in May. Fromm, 25, scrapped her plans for a sandwich dinner, in favor of a makeshift celebration with
about ten Shabbat-observant OTs. They lit candles on the hotel pool deck, and then gathered in a conference room for dinner.
There was schnitzel from a local kosher restaurant, salad prepared by one conference-goer, and a jar of gefilte fish picked
up by another.
The
dinner launched Orthodox Jewish Occupational Therapy Chavrusa (www.ojotc.org). The caucus advocates on behalf of observant Jews working in occupational therapy, a field that in
the past decade has become increasingly populated by Orthodox women. Though this particular group has long been a presence
in the profession, Orthodox women now account for more than a third of students pursuing master’s degrees in OT at several
New York-area universities, including Columbia University, State University of New York-Downstate, and Touro College, according
to anecdotal evidence.
Follow this link for the rest of the Jewish Week article
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Staten Island OT Stephen Altmark was featured June 13, 2005 on WABC-TV's "Eyewitness News" at 5 p.m. in a story about
use of specially adapted pinball machines for children receiving Occupational Therapy.
Students at the Hungerford School on Staten Island play pinball machines during class time. They're students with
special needs and the machines are adapted to help them reach goals in Occupational and Physical Therapy.
These pinball machines are the first in a public school anywhere. Each one costs about $6,000 and is adapted from
a standard machine, with switches added that can be used by students with different disabilities.
To watch the video of the story click here
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