About OOFRAS

OOFRAS: What's in a name?

Occupational Opportunities for Refugees & Asylum Seekers reflects who we are, who we work with and what we work for.

• Who we are: OTs passionate about the healing and health promoting power of occupation
• Who we work for: Refugees & asylum seekers experiencing occupational deprivation in detention and the community
• What we work for: Occupational opportunity that enables access to purposeful, meaningful, healing and health promoting occupations is both the means and end of occupational justice

Purpose: Why we exist

OOFRAS exists to build the capacity of occupational therapists to offer equitable, quality and accessible occupational therapy services for refugees in partnership with the multicultural sector and community.

Values: Principles that guide us

• Humans: We acknowledge that we are inherently occupational beings by nature
• Health: We assert the human right to create and maintain wellbeing by accessing a healthy repertoire of occupations
• Occupational justice: We strive for equitable opportunities to participate in occupations necessary to survive and thrive
• OT profession: Our OT community has a moral (human rights) and professional (ethics and expertise) duty to respond to occupational deprivation
• Sustainable synergy: It's just not strategic to care, invest, learn and contribute all by yourself - contributing to sustainable systems that support synergy and participating in them is everybody's business