Refugees by Country
The latest UNHCR refugee statistics in a map to show where refugees come from, where they go to and how many return. Explore the data for each country - or use the dropdown menu to see how the data changes.
Site Visitors by Country
oofrasLINKS by Country
Does the OT Association in your country have a special interest group regarding OT practice with refugees and asylum seekers?
If YES - go ahead and join in! The group should already have an oofrasLINK to keep in touch with OOFRAS Inc. This way we can support your learning and initiatives and help connect you to other special interest groups in other countries.
If NO - we can help!
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Add OOFRAS as a Skype contact - if there are other OTs from your country we could have a joint Skype call!
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Fill out an expression of interest - when we have six from your country we'll begin regular Skype meetings.
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Get the word out to give other OTs opportunity to learn and join in
What can a special interest groups do?
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Respond as a national group to national affairs impacting occupational justice
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Web presense for your country on OOFRAS Inc page to post learning & initiatives
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Skype calls bringing together a national voice and action?
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the oofrasLINK of your group represents your country at online oofrasLINK-ups
We are all ordinary OTs with diverse "day jobs" - we just want to see a better response by our profession to the occupational needs of refugees & asylum seekers. Before we can engage with with the colleagues, agencies, policies etc that make the context of refugee practice in our respective countries - we need to organise ourselves.
Universities by Country
Do you want to see a snapshot of student opportunities, university engagement, and innovative OT practices working with refugees and asylum seekers university by university, country by country? We were curious too! What better way to watch this field of practice evolve internationally.
So we've dedicated the discussion board on our Facebook Page for each university to be listed as a topic. Anyone with information about that program (and who has"liked" the page, thus enabling participation) can post and comment on that specific university.
OOFRAS Inc will moderate comments, seek further examples, and engage university inviting collateral info. Examples are specifically regarding "occupational needs of refugees & asylum seekers and associated* practice issues". . .
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Students have opportunity to "hear about it" eg curricula introduces it
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Students have opportunity to "explore it" eg theory/ papers
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Students have opportunity to "apply it" eg practical project assessment
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Students have opportunity to "practice it" eg refugee placements
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Students have opportunity to "build on it" eg research, evaluation
*Associated practice issues are knowledge, skills, attitudes enabling work with refugees & asylum seekers that are transferable to all OT practice.(eg human rights context of health, cultural and contextual competence, skills for when communities are the "client", skills for work in non-medical/disability practice contexts/teams, skills to identify and articulate occupational perspective whilst drawing on broad sources of information etc.)
Why not start the conversation with your university and visit our discussion board ?
We decided to kick it off with a list of Australian universities (hoping to capture the OT response of a whole country!). You are welcome to "start a new topic" with any university with WFOT approved OT program, just copy and paste the "intro post" (so others know what examples to add).
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