LEO Model

Question 1

LEO

Answer 1

Leadership in Enabling Occupation -
- Informed by the view of leadership as:
“a process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal”
- Proposed in 2013 in response to “national crisis” around lack of access to OT services
- To serve as a visual tool to increase awareness of occupational therapy

Question 2

Scholarship

Answer 2

• call to action of OTs to raise awareness around not only the positive benefits of occupation but also the potentially dangerous, maladaptive or harmful
• Scholarly practitioners (Profile of Practice)-lifelong learner, educator, and critical appraiser of practice and services (CAOT, 2012)
• Reflective, thoughtful and confident. Explore status quo knowledge with a critical lens-challenge norms
• “To support occupational therapists in asserting the power of scholarship to influence decision making ‘that can profoundly change the outcomes of …patients and the organization of which they are a part of’”

Question 3

Purpose of the LEO model

Answer 3

Recognize the possibilities of using “occupation as a health benefit” and the need to reduce “systemic barriers for people to ‘fully participate as they are able in society’”
LEO aims to:
1. Show what occupational therapy “can do and be”
2. Address issues of inequitable access to services
3. To “contribute to the lives of all citizens in Canada and beyond”

Question 4

Funding

Answer 4

AKA - Accessibility
• Impacts access to services
• Call to participate in funding decisions as they relate to access to occupational therapy

Question 5

Accountability

Answer 5

AKA - Advocate
• Show your work
• Use high profile models like ICF that share commonalities with occupation-based models to bridge the gap with biomedical perspectives and show value of occupational engagement to health and wellbeing
• Privilege occupation in your work and research-make occupation explicit
• Take your occupational perspective public
• Document what you do, why, use outcome measures, time with clients
• Demonstrate need for occupational therapy

Question 6

Workforce Planning

Answer 6

AKA - Longevity
• To collaborate and work with others on a shared vision of full access to occupation and occupational therapy
• Fostering meaningful partnerships and alliances “with those who share occupational therapy interests and values”
• Speaks to BCs shortage of OTs (good for graduate, work is easy to find –> not great for public who needs OT services)
• support personnel
• define a clear demand for OT that that is not met by other professionals
• retention and promotion (IEOTs, female dominant, part-time positions)
• Work satisfaction - work with clients, opportunities for growth, valued, occupation in practice