(1) Changed 12 weeks to 24-week fieldwork responsibility 

(2) Added and refind the solution and benefits for this conversion 

**Both feedback offered from educators/practitioners who support the petition

(3) Met with a Federal Data Specialist for an initial consultation to extract national data

• In future meetings we will collect and analyze the following information:
  • Growth of accredited university programs in the US over the last 4 years.
  • Socioeconomic status and demographics of occupational therapy students over the last 4 years
  • Tuition increases over 4 years
  • Occupational Therapy employment over the last 4 years
  • Amount of state, private, and federal funding that each school could lose vs each student potentially gaining