I think having an opportunity to have your education paid for is definitely a drawing card.
I saw occupational therapists in action. That's why I decided to become an occupational therapist. When people start understanding what occupational therapy is, then I think they will too.
Also, I've applied for a grant to go down to Texas, to the base there, to seek out more information about what occupational therapy could possibly look like in the military. Hopefully I can do that in June, as long as I get the finances to do that. If I can bring that information back, then I'll be able to share that more with people and get them more interested. I hope to write a paper.
Next month I'm also visiting, in Birmingham in the U.K., occupational therapists who are working with veterans there. I want to see what occupational therapy looks like embedded into a military context, and bring that back and share it with people. What does it really look like? Even I don't know what it really looks like. As I mentioned in my opening statements, the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists is looking to do a needs assessment with DND and the Canadian Forces to find out exactly what we would look like.
So I think people would be interested in occupational therapy that's military-specific. Also, the public sector health care clinicians will have a little bit of an understanding with the service manual that's provided.