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Community

Get involved

Volunteering is a terrific way to maximize your AOTA membership, share perspectives, enhance your networks, and grow your career. Are you ready to learn more?

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Volunteers make it happen

AOTA represents the interests of more than 244,500 occupational therapy practitioners and students. As an AOTA member volunteer, you make a positive difference: your voice counts in raising legislative concerns, your expertise helps to educate fellow members, and your story influences more than the clients you support. By volunteering with AOTA, you lift up the profession for yourself and the next generation of occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants, educators, and researchers.

Congratulations and thank you to the 2024 Service Commendation recipients, individual members of AOTA who have provided volunteer service and leadership to support the Association and the profession. AOTA is grateful for your service and contributions; your investment of time and energy adds value to AOTA’s mission and serves to strengthen the profession.

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Introducing a growing way to engage within AOTA

Launched in March 2023, the Volunteer Center in CommunOT is a growing, and eventually comprehensive, list of ways you can be involved in your professional association. Through these opportunities, you can grow your resume, your skills, and ultimately, grow the love for the occupational therapy profession at large.

Volunteering is a member benefit! The Volunteer Center is part of CommunOT and available to members only.

Volunteer categories

Volunteer opportunities fall in one of two broad categories. Both types of volunteering are essential to AOTA's collective success! AOTA needs volunteers of all experience levels, backgrounds, and perspectives.

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Volunteer gains

When you volunteer for AOTA, you will find that you often get more than you give. Don’t take our word for it—listen to the stories of these practitioners who volunteer for AOTA.

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State associations

Check out our connections to state associations, including information on the developing licensure compact, the Affiliated State Association Presidents (ASAP) and ASAP Steering Committee, and learn more about getting involved at the local, state level.

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