Kinship Care and Research with Angela Tobin OTD RR 019

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#019 Listen to how Angelas occupational therapy lead her to a personal research career in kinship care. Learn what kinship care is and how Angela based her research on kinship care. Alternative career change to online business and research.
“I built a community, and I feel like I’m the professional doing the work and giving to others; but, at the same time, I feel others have given me back a lot in the process, and that’s what motivates me to keep going.”
Angela Tobin went to the Ohio State University and graduated in May ‘22. In our interview, Angela shared that she learned about Occupational Therapy (OT) school randomly and wasn’t sure about it, so she changed to Psychology, but in the end, she returned to OT.
Currently, her primary work is at the UNC School of Social Work, where she researches kinship families. She also runs a support group that meets twice a week, which she started three years ago while she was still a student for kinship families. Also, she is training in consulting within kinship care to provide information about kinship families and how we can support them.
In our conversation, Angela tells us how she got interested in this personal topic as she comes from a kinship family.
Angela realized that no one was doing anything related to Kinship Care in the OT field, so she thought outside the box and Googled kinship organizations in Ohio. She only found one, so she emailed them her idea, applied for a fellowship, and made a good connection to get help for her support group.
For Angela, mental health is the route of OT, but she also thinks that holistically we can serve populations and rethink what Occupational Therapy is. She fell in love with the OT philosophy because it can apply to anything offering a unique glance that comes through in the work OTs do.
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