Serving the community
As a USAHS OT student, you’ll have the opportunity to participate in a Pro Bono Clinic on your campus, guided by expert faculty and supporting treatment of real patients.
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Serving the underserved
Occupational Therapy students in the Residential, Hybrid Immersion and Flex programs at all five of USAHS’ campuses have the opportunity to participate in one of our 13 innovative OT Pro Bono Clinics.
Students work under the supervision of licensed practicing OT clinician-academics, delivering the full range of OT care to both adult and pediatric patients, including stress management and novel experiences such a recent popular cooking clinic held for young adults with disabilities.
Our OT Pro Bono Clinics provide an exceptional opportunity for clients to receive services where they may not have access to occupational therapy or to receive additional services not covered by their current insurance plan.
Our Pro Bono Clinics are fundamental to our efforts to give back to the communities in which we operate, and align with our B Corp values.
As an OT student, you’ll benefit from unparalleled clinical experience with real patients as well as top-notch guidance, assessment and clinical education training from our expert faculty.
USAHS Pro Bono Clinics offer students invaluable learning opportunities beyond the classroom:
USAHS students, faculty and staff members and their families are eligible to receive treatment at any of our Pro Bono Clinics as a benefit of attending or working for the university!
“The opportunity to work with individuals and their families in pro bono was one of the highlights of my educational experience at USAHS. Working hands-on with clients in this setting was very helpful to my understanding of what the world of OT is like and how to work with people when I get out into the field.”
OT student
“This experience has broadened my horizons as a student to get real-life hands-on experience. The pro bono experience is so unique in getting to understand how to be a better occupational therapist and giving myself confidence.”
OT student
“Getting real, hands-on experience working with kids through the pediatric pro bono clinic exceptionally improved my knowledge and confidence working with this population.”
OT student
“The pro bono experience is an amazing way to begin to apply the therapeutic use of self and the knowledge we’ve learned thus far.”
OT student
If you’re a patient interested in receiving treatment at one of our OT Pro Bono Clinics or our OT telehealth service, we invite you to contact us to discuss your needs. You’re eligible for no-cost treatment if you satisfy any of the following conditions:
You may contact the USAHS OT Pro Bono Clinic by email: Pro Bono Clinic San Marcos, CA; Pro Bono Clinic St. Augustine, FL; Pro Bono Clinic Miami, FL; Pro Bono Clinic Austin, TX; or Pro Bono Clinic Dallas, TX.
Our OT Pro Bono Clinics are offered at all of our campuses — San Marcos, California; St. Augustine and Miami, Florida, Austin and Dallas, Texas — to all students enrolled in the Residential, Hybrid Immersion or Flex OT program. In addition, OT students at our Miami campus can participate in the free community OT and PT program offered at Rock Steady Boxing.
Students may participate in an OT pro bono clinic as part of the Older Adult, Pediatric or other courses within their OT program curriculum.
As part of the class, students are required to participate for at least 8 hours per term, per clinic.
All conditions are treated, including orthopedic, neurological and mental health, as well as motor, cognitive and physical delays in our pediatric OT Pro Bono Clinics. We also offer an OT stress management clinic and a cooking clinic as a service to patients.
Yes! The OT Pro Bono clinics offer occupational therapy to children of all ages and adults, providing evaluations as well as individual treatment plans.
All graduate students are supervised by licensed, practicing OT faculty. The expert faculty at USAHS work with OT graduate students to provide special assessments and treatments, in addition to quality clinical education for the students.
Clinical educators meet weekly with graduate student clinicians to get feedback about clinical sessions, plan for upcoming sessions, and provide top-of-the-line clinical education training to ensure quality services for clients.
Teletherapy is offered in some instances. All Pro Bono teletherapy sessions are delivered in real time via a HIPAA compliant secure Zoom platform.
Hours vary by campus, please contact us to find out more:
Nicole Capell – [email protected]
Christian Guarino – [email protected]
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