Community Practice
Completed Projects: Community Practice
Each manuscript is available in the WVU Research Repository by selecting the title below.
Visit North Carolina: Trail Accessibility
- Alum: Hannah Cait Guschel
- Capstone Highlight Video
- Site: Visit North Carolina (NC)
- Capstone Mentors: Amanda Baker & Marlise Taylor
- Synopsis: This project advocated for initiatives to enhance accessibility awareness in outdoor spaces, promoting equitable access to trails and greater participation in leisure travel among individuals with disabilities.
Community Resource Programs Impact on Marginalized Communities Access to Health Care Services: A Program Development Project
- Alum: Alexis Foehrkolb
- Capstone Highlight Video
- Site: Parents Place of Maryland (MD)
- Capstone Mentor: Kristen Paul
- Synopsis: This program added information regarding the most effective way to recruit participants for community resource programs and further supported the use of webinars for educational purposes. This program also brought attention to the role of occupational therapists in this non-traditional setting to contribute to informational materials regarding diagnoses through the lens of occupational therapy.
Development and Implementation of Occupational Therapy Group Protocols for Individuals in Recovery for Substance Use Disorder: Considering Social Determinants of Health and Occupational Areas of Need
- Capstone Student: Sammy Windisch
- Site: Lauren’s Wish (WV)
- Capstone Mentor: Paige Drury
- Synopsis: Through needs assessment surveys focused on occupational areas of need and social determinants of health, 6 occupational-based group protocols were determined, developed, and implemented at Lauren’s Wish Addiction Triage Center.
Dance Intervention for Stroke Rehabilitation: Restoring Occupational Performance Through Creative Movement
- Capstone Student: Olivia Allen
- Capstone Highlight Video
- Site: Therapy Services LLC (WV)
- Capstone Mentor: Lindsey Elliott
- Synopsis: Participants with a stroke and other neurological diagnoses attended an 8-week community dance class program where socialization, community reintegration, fitness, and neurologic rehabilitation were emphasized.