Why Every PTA Should Volunteer: Leadership, Service & Special Olympics

What happens when you simply keep saying "yes"?

Katie Sutton welcomes Rachel Winthrop, PTA, to discuss an incredible professional journey filled with leadership, advocacy, service, and a passion for helping others.

Rachel shares how volunteering through APTA and Special Olympics Healthy Athletes expanded her career while reminding her why she became a PTA in the first place.

Whether you're looking for new career inspiration or searching for meaningful ways to serve your community, this episode demonstrates how physical therapy reaches far beyond the clinic.

• Building a diverse VA career
• Leadership through APTA
• Parkinson's disease programming
• Cardiac rehabilitation
• Amputee care
• Healthy Athletes
• Special Olympics volunteer opportunities
• https://www.specialolympics.org/what-we-do/inclusive-health/my-health/funfitness
• https://www.specialolympics.org/what-we-do/inclusive-health/healthy-athletes
• Why volunteering improves clinical practice
• Movement is Medicine
• Rachel's advice for every PTA
• Other Links:
• https://www.ohioseniorolympics.com/
• https://engage.apta.org/home

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