![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/AEP3-300x168.png\")
I love that social media allows me to connect to occupational therapists all around the world and tap into their expertise and creativity. In 2021 I plan to use social media more mindfully as a health care provider, community member, and family member to advocate, educate and participate in health awareness events.<\/p>\n
Advocate:<\/strong> What barriers do patients face when living with a diagnosis or condition? Physical barriers, barriers to services, barriers to medication? Use your social media presence to advocate for change to address those barriers.<\/p>\n Educate:<\/strong> The internet offers countless reputable sites providing valuable information and resources for people impacted by any condition you can imagine. So take a minute, find those great resources, and share across your social media pages. Sign up for a virtual class or training on a condit and share that experience online.<\/p>\n Participate:<\/strong> Support health awareness campaigns by liking a story, reposting a resource, commenting on a post, or posting your take on a challenge – think ice buckets. Use the organization\u2019s official hashtag to create energy around official campaigns.<\/p>\n By participating online in a mindful and professional way, you can help tell the story of some misunderstood conditions. Social media is a powerful tool, use it wisely to advance knowledge of health conditions by advocating, educating and participating in health awareness days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I love that social media allows me to connect to occupational therapists all around the world and tap into their expertise and creativity. In 2021 I plan to use social media more mindfully as a health care provider, community member, and family member to advocate, educate and participate in health…<\/p>\n Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-i-love-ot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/AEP3.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7497,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494\/revisions\/7497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottoolkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}