| | From the President and Secretary General Small organisations like WCPT often achieve more when they work with others. Collaboration has always been important to us, but never more so than now as our reach and ambitions grow. In the past month, WCPT has announced several new collaborations. We have new partnerships with PEDro (the Physiotherapy Evidence Database) and Physiopedia – we share similar aims and principles, so it is in our interests to promote each other and the benefits of physical therapists getting involved. We have joined with important professional campaigns such as All Trials, and continue to support a wide range of international initiatives promoting global health such as the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. (You can read more about WCPT's formal partnerships and collaborations at www.wcpt.org/node/100828 and www.wcpt.org/collaborations-activities.) These relationships do not revolve around money, but around goodwill, promotion, activities and networking. Working together creates momentum, moves us forward more quickly, avoids duplication and in the end, achieves more. Kind regards,
Marilyn Moffat and Brenda J Myers If you would like to use all or part of this e-letter for your own newsletters/websites then please feel free. We need your assistance to reach the profession around the world, so please send this e-update to your members. WCPT signs up to the All Trials campaign WCPT is encouraging its member organisations and individual physical therapists to support the All Trials campaign. This international campaign is calling for all trials to be registered and published so that both positive and negative results are available, ensuring that key information and discoveries are not lost forever. www.wcpt.org/node/101263 World Physical Therapy Day There are now less than six weeks left to plan your activities to celebrate World Physical Therapy Day. Download posters and flyers with this year's "Fit for the future" theme; send an e-card with your own personalised message; access the clinical resources booklet and; read our World Physical Therapy Day booklet with practical advice on what to do, how to do it and how to get noticed. All are available from WCPT's toolkit page: www.wcpt.org/wptday-toolkit. Over the past few years the 8th September has become an increasingly important date in the physical therapy calendar. It is celebrated around the world and is used to highlight the crucial contribution the profession makes to keep people well, mobile and independent. We look forward to receiving your photographs and reports on how you marked the day in 2013. WCPT Congress 2015: Call for focused symposia WCPT is calling on physical therapists who are leaders/experts in their fields to propose focused symposium sessions on cutting edge professional topics for the next WCPT congress, to be held in Singapore in 2015. The deadline for submissions is 30th September. More details about the call can be accessed at www.wcpt.org/node/100843. Earlier this month WCPT announced an exciting new partnership with PEDro (the Physiotherapy Evidence Database), which provides online access to over 24,000 randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physical therapy. Read the full story at www.wcpt.org/node/101073. This month saw the journal, The Lancet, launch a new, monthly, open-access vehicle for global health knowledge. See the contents of the first issue of The Lancet Global Health: http://bit.ly/14spm8e. WCPT subgroup offers new membership category International Day of Persons with Disabilities The United Nations has announced the theme of this year's International Day of Persons with Disabilities: "Break barriers, open doors: for an inclusive society for all". A major focus of the day, on 3rd December, is on practical and concrete action to include disability in all aspects of development, as well as to further the participation of persons with disabilities in social life and development on the basis of equality. Find out how you can take part in the day at www.un.org/disabilities/default.asp?id=1607. Prevention of abuse and violence again children The Women's World Summit Foundation (WWSF) recently launched its 3rd edition of the 19 Days of activism for prevention of abuse and violence against children and youth 1-19 November 2013. The 19 Days Campaign is a WWSF initiative launched in 2011 by the Children-Youth Section and is sponsored by the WWSF and other partners. The 19th November is World Day for the Prevention of Child Abuse. WWSF is now issuing a call for action for organisations to consult their 2013 prevention kit and use the 19 Days Campaign to fight against at least one of their 19 abuse/violence issues. For more information visit http://19days.woman.ch/index.php/en/. Activities are to be registered on their website by 15th October. A WCPT continuing education partner, Educata, is offering free access to peer-reviewed research publications including an article on population approaches to improve diet, physical activity, and smoking habits www.educata.com/articles.aspx. To find out about Educata CPD courses go to www.wcpt.org/node/29540. 6th Asia Western Pacific Region of WCPT Congress: the theme for the congress is "Health promotion through physical therapy". View the programme and see the latest announcements at www.2013awp-acpt.org/home.html. The congress will be held on 5th-9th September 2013 in Taichung, Taiwan. INFORMATION
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