APTA Engage - Volunteer Opportunities

Interested in volunteering nationally or locally within your chapter or section? Volunteers are integral to APTA’s success. Our goal with our new engagement system is to capture volunteer opportunities across the organization and establish a simple process for engaging volunteers. With the use of our new system we hope to encourage volunteerism at all levels by using an intuitive system that makes it easy to find opportunities that best meet your needs. 

Learn More & Volunteer!

​Building a community that advances the profession of physical therapy to improve the health of society. 
The American Physical Therapy Association's mission statement reflects why we exist: YOU. Your efforts impact the lives of patients, students, and colleagues on a daily basis. Your engagement in the conversation and the work of this association is how we move this profession forward. Build your community by volunteering. You are APTA. 

Join the ONE by ONE Campaign and Grow Our Collective Voice

The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) and The Home Health Section has been built—one member at a time—into an inclusive and impactful community of over 100,000 members, who support APTA's mission of building a community that advances the profession of physical therapy to improve the health of society. APTA's new member referral campaign ONE by ONE allows you to play an active role in building APTA's membership, and earn rewards for doing so.

Any current active APTA member is eligible to participate as a recruiter and eligible to win a ONE by ONE incentive by encouraging a new member to join APTA. To receive credit for each new or reinstated member recruited, online and paper applications must reference the email address affiliated with the recruiting member's APTA membership. Applications without the referring member's email cannot qualify toward an incentive drawing.

Once a new member is on board, they are now also eligible to recruit others ONE by ONE and can be entered into drawings, so recruit early and often! The participating chapter and section with the largest year-over-year growth during ONE by ONE will win a prize. Let's strive to make the Home Health Section the largest APTA section!

The program runs through September 30, 2020. For more information on full eligibility rules, email, and social media templates, plus referral cards that you can share with your colleagues, visit www.apta.org/ONEbyONE.

2020 Honors & Awards Program

Posted: November 20, 2019

Each year APTA honors outstanding achievements on the part of its members in the areas of overall accomplishment, education, practice and service, publications, research, and academic excellence. Award recipients will be recognized on APTA.org, in PT in Motion, and at the awards ceremony at APTA's 2020 NEXT Conference & Exposition in Phoenix, Arizona. 

Academy of Acute Care Physical Therapy - Volunteer Request

Posted: November 20, 2019

The APTA HHS's sister section, the Academy of Acute Care Physical Therapy (AACPT), is supporting a task force to create a Limb Loss/Limb Difference/Prosthetics Entry-Level PT Competency, and they are looking for volunteers. Volunteers need not be a member of the AACPT but should meet the criteria and experience in the call for applications. Information and application submission will be through APTA Engage. 

Please feel free to forward and share this information with any interested and qualified individuals. Their goal is to have broad membership on this task force, and they are committed to making any work product of this task force available to non-Academy members for no charge. The Academy is taking on the role of organizing, funding, and overseeing the work of the task force to help enable this important work to get completed. Thank you in advance for your help to promote this opportunity and to help AACPT have a broad representation of experts on this task force. 

Specific questions can be sent to Toran Macloed, PT, PhD at [email protected].