Who we are
Occupational therapy (OT) brings untapped potential to community-based organizations with a focus on function and participation in meaningful daily activities for all populations.
The field is well-integrated into traditional health care settings. Despite OT’s established role in serving individuals, communities, and populations across the lifespan, OT is only emerging as an authentic partner on community-based interdisciplinary support teams, such as homeless organizations.
OT address mental and physical health, health and disability management, daily routines to support well-being and productive engagement, identity re-development and stability post-crisis, trauma, disability or life change.
Community OT Solutions, LLC, designs dignifying solutions to foster meaningful participation and empower communities to thrive. We can partner with organizations to support integration of occupational therapy services, design programs and spaces, and meet direct community needs. We are excited to work with you to enhance lives and promote empowering services for measurable impact.
About Us
Andrea LeFlore, OTD, OTR/L, is a Director of Programs at a community-based homeless organization, where she established an Occupational Therapy program and innovative Engagement Center through community-based participatory research in collaboration with individuals with lived experience of homelessness in supportive housing. She has consulted with medical respite programs and served as a board officer of a street medicine nonprofit. Her inpatient hospital clinical background influenced her path to bring community-built OT services to spaces where people experiencing homelessness are accessing basic services to enhance well-being and quality of life.
Erica Engel, OTD, OTR/L, is an Associate Program Director of Occupational Therapy (OT) supervising an OT team in permanent supportive housing, street outreach, and family shelter programming. She, also serves as a Drug Overdose Prevention Program Director. She collaborates with unhoused clients by designing strengths-based interventions that address challenges faced along the journey from homelessness to housed. Erica is passionate about harm reduction in this setting and skilled at supporting older adults who have experienced or are experiencing unstable housing to effectively age in place with cost-effective solutions.