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Key Takeaways
- Therapists Beyond Borders helps empower communities that care for individuals with special needs
- Therapy professionals, families, and caregivers co-design training to create sustainable programmes
- Performance Health is now a proud sponsor of Therapists Beyond Borders and supports this non-profit in a variety of ways
What Is Therapists Beyond Borders?
An international non-profit organization comprised of compassionate physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and speech therapists. They empower communities that care for individuals with special needs around the world through training programmes, so individuals of all abilities are empowered to reach their own unique potential.
What Do They Do?
These volunteers provide training to communities around the world to co-design ethical therapy programmes that maximize the volunteers’ long-term impact. It is key for communities to display their own goals of growth and sustainability, as well as compassion and commitment to those in their care.1
Why Was TBB Created?
The World Health Organization (WHO) states, “In many parts of the world…the capacity to provide rehabilitation is limited or non-existent and fails to adequately address the needs of the population. The magnitude and scope of these unmet needs signals and urgent need for concerted and coordinated global action.”2 In spirit of that, Therapists Beyond Borders was created.
Therapists Beyond Borders Strategy
To develop educational training modules with therapy professionals, families, and caregivers that can be sustained locally and then scaled to other communities.
Starting in Kenya
Co-development of curriculum and training modules for enhanced therapeutic care in pilot country
Scaling to the World
Scale modules to new communities - both internationally to other countries and back to USA for domestic families and communities in need
What is Performance Health’s Role in Supporting TBB?
Performance Health started partnering with Therapists Beyond Borders in June 2021 by promoting their 2nd Annual Global 5K Run. Being a global company ourselves, we held a fundraiser and virtual 5K run throughout our company to help raise money for the non-profit organization. The money raised goes toward their mission of fostering self-sustaining, locally-run therapy education programmes that build a community’s capacity to provide skillful care for their most vulnerable members.
We have also been able to donate a variety of different therapy products to help with their efforts to build therapy programmes throughout the world. Next, we are looking to co-develop a clinician course to enhance education and therapeutic skill growth.
To learn more about Therapists Beyond Borders and how they help provide therapy services to communities in need, “Click Here.”
References
- Therapists Beyond Borders. (2021). Therapists Beyond Boarders Organization. Retrieved from https://bit.ly/3avsiND
- Disability and Health. (December 2020). World Health Organization. Retrieved from https://bit.ly/3FMaLPN
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