Sarah Dixon

Name: Sarah Dixon
Department: Occupational Therapy (School of Health Care Sciences)
Faculty: Health Sciences
Position: Occupational Therapy Masters Student
E-mail: [email protected]

Biography

Sarah Dixon is an occupational Therapist, one-year post community service at Grey’s Hospital, Pietermaritzburg. She is currently employed in the private sector in a Vocational Rehabilitation practice. She obtained her B. Occ Ther (2019) at the University of Pretoria. This year she will be starting her Master's journey which will focus on Occupational Therapy intervention in Homeless Persons during the lockdown and tutoring the third and fourth-year Occupational Therapy students at the University of Pretoria.

Discipline/s

Occupational Therapy

Research description

.A pilot project sharing the narratives of community members involved in various University of Pretoria student-led projects on their daily experiences and realities navigating their lives in vulnerable communities in the city of Tshwane. The project aims to record the “voices” of community members, specifically but not limited to young people in peri-urban communities, substance users in a harm reduction program, and previously street-based people living in shelters in the City of Tshwane. Participants will tell their stories, with the intention to a) better understand their lives, in order to b) positively influence policy and the implementations thereof, thus c) contributing to appropriate interventions, and d) raise awareness in order to overcome stigma and the resulting discrimination towards, especially, homeless people and people who use/d drugs (PWUD).

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