DO YOUR CLIENTS UNDERSTAND YOU? HEALTHY LITERACY IN OUR COMMUNITIES!


Learning Objectives:
-Be able to define health literacy
-Be able to identify health literacy factors that may impact working with community members
-Be able to list assessment tools
-Be able to list intervention strategies

Presented by:
Giovanna Boniface is an occupational therapist with 20 years of experience, practicing her entire career in BC.  She works for the national professional association that represents 16,000 occupational therapists in Canada and 2,400 therapists in BC.  In her current role, she is the senior OT adviser for the association and is responsible for professional affairs at the national level.
Giovanna is also a clinical instructor at the University of British Columbia, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy and is completing her Masters of Rehabilitation Science, researching the development of a new occupational therapy assessment tool.  She is also the outgoing president of the International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals-Canada Chapter, and a current director for the Canadian Society of Association Executives.


Tuesday, February 21, 2017 
10:30  a.m. - noon
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