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Today we are going to discuss the topic of Career Paths for those who are in Therapeutic Recreation.
right learn lucky eight what does therapeutic recreation
students do once they graduate when searching therapeutic recreation
and indeed calms dropping a variety of jobs came up to them and flag with those
two keywords for example on her life specialist I crows Memorial Community
Hospital program facilitator and addiction services at Homewood health
that's the state camp coordinator at sunrise therapeutic riding group fitness
instructor from embody the community adult recreation league associate for
the city of Waterloo while looking at archive statistics for the faculty and
the final Sciences graduating recreation and leisure students it was noted that
in 2010 fifty-eight percent of graduates were working 36 percent were in
postgraduate education and sixty percent were traveling examples of jobs are
childcare counselor at York Region Health Unit recreation therapists at
Cambridge General Hospital in the manager at Trinity Village battled a
program
postgraduate education included programs at Western University learning
University and D'Youville College as well Social Work and occupational
therapy at the University of Toronto for popular postgraduate programs flash
forward a couple of years and the statistics are sure to change with more
recent 2016 stats 9% of the graduating class are traveling twenty-seven
attending further education and 64% are starting a career further education and
this cohort includes Social Work at the University of Toronto and master's
programs at the University of Waterloo jobs in this graduating class include
working as a recreation coordinator for the town of Halton Hills University of
Waterloo as a student service coordinator for accessibility services
and Valley View home as a recreation therapist it is clear to see how in six
years span what TR students are doing there are some clear patterns with where
you can find TR students once they graduate whether it's a hospital type of
retirement or long term care setting improving programs of the community or
education settings dr's are impacting the lives of many in a variety of
environments many non ers ask the question what does someone in TR
actually do do you just play games do you play with people what a lazy way to
earn a degree in fun is it a joke so are you just a camp counselor then people
usually create their own ideas of what we do I'm sure many of you have noticed
varying ideas your friends your family other students and other members of
society think we do as TRS compared to what we actually do yet have we asked
ourselves why this might be well TR as we all know is a relatively
new field of study so many people have not had the pleasure of knowing someone
closely involved nor has a program had time to develop a firm foundation just
ask Sylvester folk and Elise who states that being far younger than other fields
TR assembly has not the opportunity to develop a sound
foundation and has not matured enough to take on such a challenge however as the
prevalence of TR becomes increasingly prominent in society many people should
be made aware of the impact TRS have
education is a key part in our success as practitioners our education prepares
us to be in T our roles and our education does this by providing us with
skills skills are not made to be used in only one job profession the beauty of
them is that they are transferable some of the major skills we are taught as TRS
are the ability to facilitate programs talk in front of large groups of people
help people debrief and reflect on themselves
we understand accessibility and embarr and barriers to participation we also
have a basis of understanding that to be healthy we need to have our mind body
and spirit connection as TR students we also become expert team members these
are all skills that can be used in many other professions where can these skills
be used being a teacher a guidance counselor a researcher
supervisor of a company accessibility counselor it is important for people
just starting in this profession to understand that we have a lot of skills
to offer by knowing what we have to offer we have the ability to advocate
for our profession and the uses for it in non-traditional environments while
the Terr profession is becoming more widely recognized in health care systems
we still often get asked with TRS in addition ter graduates have the unique
opportunity to evoke changed in recreation health care facilities that
could benefit from having TR there for example TRS traditionally found in
settings like hospitals long-term care homes or physical rehabilitation
facilities what Booker bombs or correctional facilities why is TR not
traditionally found in these places option is because the value of TR is
unknown or determined to be worthy of allocating budget towards services
however we know the TR can benefit anyone and in particular those who are
seeking participants and other services to benefit themselves
so how can we as practitioners advocate for this practice to become a reality in
these types of facilities the great way to start is for the newly graduated
students to enter the field once students finish their degrees or college
diplomas they are well equipped with the knowledge necessary to begin by
volunteering or seeking employment in places where there is not an existing to
your position or a supervisor with the experience one can begin to develop the
TR service how do they do this well they can start with the standards of practice
in code of ethics up by therapeutic recreation Ontario with this and they
accumulated knowledge and experience from your post-secondary education you
are well equipped to develop successful programming programming and participants
love and show dramatic results in their treatment plans that they were not
previously experiencing by using TR the way that we know works best we are able
to help clients reach their goals TR can make a difference in everyday lives we
just have to have the time to show it after all the impact of TR has is more
than just immediate results and encourages growth and development and
can instill inspiration for working on bettering ourselves it can change
people's lives
my matera waterloo starts coming to an end getting a little tired having to
justify myself or what I'm studying to friends and other people what I'm
studying makes me really happy and I leave here knowing that I'm gonna be a
lot more than a camp counselor I can work with children I can work with
adults or maybe even older adults I can work with municipalities in education
sports and recreation forgot this of what I'm working I'm going to be making
myself very happy you don't get to make others happy as well I'm gonna leave
Waterloo be a big person being more aware of myself as well as we're aware
of others and I'm gonna leave making changes in the lives of many six month
ago if you were to ask a written community what they knew about
therapeutic recreation a majority of them would pause give you a confused
look and you get an answer like a therapist for athletes there's an
insufficient amount of information towards the actual benefits and value of
TR even though so many people experience it as TR in the 21st century should no
longer go undervalued underrepresented and underutilized as prevalence and
necessity of TR in Griezmann more and more people should be educated about the
truth impact we STRs really do have
while we're in school TR seems like the only use of our knowledge although we
are prepared for this position our knowledge is taught to us through skills
so these skills are transferable across jobs and careers the better we
understand our skills the better we are able to advocate for our profession and
the uses for it I see arts we always are encouraged to
teach our clients with advocacy but rarely do you advocate for ourselves why
is that you should be taking TR into every workplace that we work instilling
a sense of pride for perfection and really developing and knowing our
meaning of leisure and the Millennials leisure we have our scene that's around
us and our going back to God knows and we have our Education Center Foundation
so really all you have to do is apply it but we hope this video today has taught
you is that Tiare is extremely valuable and what we really need to do is develop
our understanding what's yards and by doing this it will ultimately happen is
grow room and strengthen our profession together
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