ACTing to Support Positive Change: Acknowledging Roles, Creating Conversations, and Taking Action

Michelle DeJesus, Kendra Oliver-Derry, Emma Baldwin, Arameh Anvarizadeh, Stephanie Lancaster, and Catherine R. Hoyt

The challenges of 2020 brought significant changes for occupational therapy practitioners and students. Aside from navigating increased personal protective measures, telehealth, virtual learning, and other COVID-19-related changes, practitioners and students experienced stressors related to the racial and ethnic tensions in the United States. The pandemic disproportionately affected communities of color and increased awareness of occupational injustices (Centers for

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