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The result of a collaboration between the College of Occupational Therapists and the National Social Inclusion Programme, the new publication titled Work Matters: Vocational navigation for occupational therapy staff is aimed at occupational therapists and other allied health professionals and provides good practice guidance to support their work with people on their journeys to employment. BAOT/COT’s introduction of the publication is quoted below. 

This book has been written to support you, as occupational therapists, to work with your clients and service users on their journeys to work whether they are young, working age, older adults, at whatever point they are referred to you.

It is relevant to all areas of occupational therapy practice. Increasingly our clients and research are telling us that people want to work but experience barriers in finding, returning to and sustaining work.

This book, in three sections, aims to outline some of these barriers and how you, the occupational therapist, can work with your clients to identify and tackle them. It will introduce some ideas to support you in engaging with your clients around work issues and signpost you and them to useful sources of information and potential partner organisations. After having read it you should be able to navigate journeys or pathways to employment with the people you work with.

Click here to download Work Matters.

Source: British Association/ College of Occupational Therapist

The Davao Bloggers are always busy...with food.

Last week, we were treated with free lunch at Belly's Grill in Quirino Avenue. It's a small restaurant equipped with a lot of good food. Yes, GOOD FOOD. I went here with Ate Ria, Miss Miata, Kuya Andrew, Kuya Bboy, Gwing and Tiara. This is the third leg of the Davao Food Trip (2nd - Taj Minar, 1st - Zakoya) which was organized by Kuya Blogie. Unfortunately, Kuya Blogie was not around to taste the delicious foods we had.


The Food. It was my first time to try the ostrich steak (whatever you call an ostrich meat). The taste and the meat's quality is similar to beef, less the distinct taste beef has. I'm not sure how to describe it but I was expecting more of a 'birdish' type of meat but it was good. We were able to try their tuna belly, fried hito, kinilaw, and sisig. All were equally good.


The Owner(s). The restaurant is owned by Miss Celine Sy and her husband (who was very shy to meet us). The place is decorated with photography works of his brother Lito Sy. According to Miss Celine, she first heard about blogging when a friend called her from Japan. This friend came across Kuya Blogie's review about Belly's grill when she searched the internet. She also said that she gets excited when somebody posts good comments about their restaurant.

After having the lunch, I twit about this restaurant. I said, "Belly's Grill is the best. It's 4 times more delicious than Ger*y's Grill at half the price. Davao Food Trip is a lot more better than the Trinoma Food Tour".

Remember my daughter who was stricken by the deadly dengue fever last month? She's fine now, thanks be to God! We were lucky to have her detected and recovered fast. Last Sunday, my brother-in-law's former employee came to us and seek for some financial assistance since his son who is only 4 years old is confined at the San Lazaro Hospital due to (again) dengue fever. We know how hard his