New activities you must know

Dear TAPAS members.
Last months TAPAS association sended 5 Belgian students of HUB to Jaszkotle near Wroclaw in Poland. Also 2 students of UNIZAR Zaragoza went to Jaszkotle to do an unforgettable practice with the children of the institute.
1 HUB student is in Esteli Nicaragua with TAPAS association.
Next week (19 to 23 march) Luc Vercruysse is going to Zargoza to teach in Unzar and also have meetings with Cristina de Diego and Patricia Jovellar about the future of our association.
We will also have two mini conferences to presnt TAPAS and our projects and activities. We will have presentations about TAPAS at the university of San Jose and also for ICOFA and COPTOA.
As you can see TAPAS is still going well.
Don’t hesitate to contact us if you want to join us in one of our projects.

TAPAS on ENOTHE meeting

On friday 4th of november we (Luc Vercruysse)will have a workshop of our TAPAS association at the ENOTHE meeting in Ghent.
ENOTHE is the European network for OT education.
Last summer (august 2011) we (Mieke lembrechts and Luc Vercruysse)were in Jaszkotle again for making new agreements and do an evaluation of last year.
In April 2011 TAPAS became a real registered association in Zaragoza, Aragon (Spain).
As you could see in last message we were (Luc Vercruysse and Reninka De Koker) in Esteli (Nicaragua) where we are asked to organise post graduate courses at the UPOLI university. We are working on this.
On this moment we are also constructing a new website and we will have other mailadresses.
We (Cristina de Diego, Patricia Jovellar and luc Vercruysse) also plan some other TAPAS mini conferences in Zaragoza for next spring.
As you can see, we are still on the run.
Donations can be done on the account of
TAPAS :
IBAN: ES22 2054 0344 23 9163417275

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We are still going on

There was a lot TAPAS activity since last message on this blog.
Luc Vercruysse and Reninka Dekoker were organising and giving the 3rd and 4th TAPAS conference in Esteli- Nicaragua.
2 students of HUB did practice at Cristal school in Esteli and 6 HUB students were in Jaszkotle.
On this moment Mieke Lembrechts and the pupils from BUSO Terbank Heverlee (school for special education) are in Jaszkotle for a vocational training. The 2nd and 3rd of june there is a conference in Wroclaw with a presentation of TAPAS collaboration in Jaszkotle. Mieke will do this Job together with Agnieszka P. and her colleagues. We are a real association now with administrative seat in Zaragoza thanks to Cristina de Diego and Patricia Jovelar.
Next conference will be in Malaga organized by Ana Szot hopefully at the end of this year.
Reninka Dekoker is negociating with UPOLI- and FAREM- university in Esteli Nicatragua about giving post graduate courses on their demand.
As you can see TAPAS is still going on a very good speed.

TAPAS Grews

Two volunteers (participants of the conference in Zaragoza) are going to Nicaragua this summer; an ocupational therapist and a logopedist.
They are going to do their volunteer work in the school CRISTAL, a school including childeren with talking, learning problems and mental disability. They are going to join a really dynamic team and the people who worked like a volunteer in this proyect before, always are motivated…
At the end of april Luc Vecruysse , International Tapas coordinator will also visit Esteli Nicargua for the presentation of TAPAS to two universities.

Reninka Dekoker, Tapas contact Esteli Nicaragua

More news from the TAPAS front:

On this moment three students of OT from HUB Brussels university together with three students from Zaragoza university of health sciences are doing practice in our TAPAS Project in Jaszkotle Poland.
I was there on behalf of ENOTHE to give a module to future teachers in OT from 4 universities : Krakau, Warschava, Bielsko and Wroclaw.
We did a professional visit to the project in Jaszkotle. Agnieszka, Dorota and Ewa did a good and interesting workshop for the audience.

Luc Vercruysse
International TAPAS coordinator.

Tapas is still alive and kicking

The Tapas association is still running well.
On this moment we are working on the third TAPAS conference. Location: Malaga.
It will be around end of march beginning of april. You will hear more of that in a few weeks.
Cristina was going to our project in India last month.
Patricia came back from Argentina.
We are also working on conferences in Esteli Nicaragua together with Reninka and the students who will be there from February till april 2011.
Students are doing practice in Jaszkotle/poland. On this moment we have two students from Turku Finland on location.This summer we had OT students from Terrassa (Spain) in Jaszkotle.
On november 24 we will present our projects to 2nd year OT students in Brussels.
We look out for your reactions and please feel free whenever you want to join and contact us if you are interested in doing something on our locations.

New project in Argentina

We are proud to announce you a new TAPAS project in Argentina.
New International TAPAS Project:

Cotolengo de Don Orione, Claypole (Argentina)

Don Luis Orione was a priest who dedicated his life to serving the poorest and most humble. This conviction led him to found the Little Work of Divine Providence (1903). In 1935 he founded “El Pequeño Cotolengo de Don Orione” in Claypole (Argentina).
Their Mission today is: According to the current problems, they spend part of their life to children and adolescents, especially those who are disadvantaged, marginalized, and in extreme poverty.- Work with people who fail to meet their basic needs and are victims of hunger, poor health and education, lack of family and affection, the inability to project towards a decent future.
How do they work the Cotolengo? Home to people with multiple disabilities, physical and mental, its therapeutic and educational setting is complex and must be made through interdisciplinary teams (Nurses, Psychiatrist, 3 Physiotherapists, 3 Occupational Therapists, 1 Speech therapist, 3 Physical Education teachers, 2 Psychologists and Special education teaches), where the task of each (religious, professional, assistants, volunteers) put together for a better assisted service and, where possible, their family, when it exists.
Basically, the tasks for the disabled (more than 400 residents!!), are to assist and care for, rehabilitate, educate and promote, whenever necessary in a family atmosphere.

There is lot to do to improve the quality of life for all people living in the Cotolengo … they are waiting for you!

More information: www.donorione.org.ar
Contact: jovellar -at- aidimo.org and pjovellar -at- aidimo.org and luc.vercruysse -at- scarlet.be

BuSO Terbank in Jaszkotle

On Saturday march 27 2010 we had our second TAPAS conference in HUB campus Terranova Brussels. About 60 attendants could listen to the informative presentations in the morning and follow two of the six practical workshops given in the afternoon. All of them were very satisfied about the organisation and the contents of the conference.
We also had the chance to present a brandnew project in Argentina. More about that in a next message.
TAPAS boarder has already an option for the 3rd conference: Malaga – Spain.
Come and see this webblog on a regular base to find more information about that and other TAPAS projects.

2nd TAPAS Conference

TAPAS conference

For the second time The TAPAS association (Therapy for All Patients in All Situations) organises a conference.
Last conference was in november 2008 in Zaragoza (Spain)
TAPAS is an international project of the department Ergotherapie HUB-EHSAL Brussel. Now it is an international associatie of proactieve therapists that focus on patients who for one or another reason have to miss therapy.
TAPAS organizes and coordinates an organisation of volunteers and OT or PT students. They are providing therapy on location. Our webblog: www.tapas.whereareyou.net
We will set the spots on our projects of today. Practical workshops will be given in the afternoonprogramm. In that way we hope to inspire therapists an students to join the TAPAS association, and work together with us.
Dutch spoken presentations will be translated or provided with handouts in the Englisch language.
Two persons from the organizational border can help to translate the main ideas of the presentations into Spanish.

Luc Vercruysse
International coördinator

ERGOTHERAPIE BUITENGEWOON

2nd TAPAS conference

27 march 2010
HUB-EHSAL Brussel Campus Terranova
Blekerijstraat 1000 Brussel

Organisation TAPAS
(Therapy for All Patients in All Situations) in collaboration with

Opleiding Ergotherapie HUB-EHSAL Brussel
Programma:

9.30u:Welcome.
Dhr Jo Praet, director health care dept. HUB-EHSAL
Mevr.Greet Deknop, progrramm coördinator ergotherapie HUB-EHSAL

9.45u: TAPAS: An interdisciplinary approach in an international context.
Luc Vercruysse, Lector ergotherapie HUB-EHSAL and international coordinator TAPAS
Cristina de Diego Alonso: OT/PT, TAPAS coördinator Spain.

10.30u: Koffie
11.00u: Jaszkotle – Who we are and what we do.(Polen): Agnieszka Ptak,
11.30u: Centro Juvenil, Los Pipitos-Esteli (Nicaragua): Reninka Dekoker
12.00u: Occupational Therapy in Prisons? It exists!!
Jan Adams en Jerina Vanneste
12.30u Tapas-Lunch prepared by pupils from the School for Special Education Terbank, Heverlee
13.30u tot 14.30u: Workshopsessie 1

Workshop Cristina de Diego Alonso: Communication: more than words.
Workshop Reninka Dekoker: Dynamic learning processes in special contexts: Occupational therapy as base . ergotherapie als basis.
Workshop Agnieszka Ptak, Ewa Poznar: Stimulation of the development through movement and fun. Interdisciplinarity as most succesfull approach.
Workshop Jan Adams, Jerina Vanneste: Occupational Therapy in Prison: Forensoic OT.
Workshop alumni ergotherapie HUB (Kato Defeyter, Ellen Baert, Evi Pacqué , Tina Govaert ): How can I prepare myself for working in a project or practice period in the south. What does this mean for my vision on OT and on my professional identity as OT.
Workshop Mieke Lembrechts: Vocational training with pupils from a school for special education in Jaszkotle: More practice opportunities for OT students?

15.00 tot 16.00: Workshopsessie 2

Idem workshopsessie 1

16.15u: Plenum and evaluation .

Interested ???

Just contact one of us.

Contactgegevens TAPAS
Luc Vercruysse: luc.vercruysse -at- hubrussel.be
Cristina de Diego Alonso: cristinadediegoalonso -at- gmail.com

New TAPAS project

Dear TAPAS friends,

I was in A Coruna (Spain) last week and met a OT who wanted to work with us by offering a new project in Burkina Fasso (West Africa).
Inda (Responsible OT) is an OT working for an NGO in Burkina Fasso. She is running a daycare center for mental health patients. we are happy to have this opportunity. I hope we can send a lot of interested OT and PT students very soon there.
The programm of the 2nd conference of TAPAS in Brussels is almost ok. You will find more news about that in a few days.