{"id":5077,"date":"2025-10-14T15:06:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/cpl\/?p=5077"},"modified":"2025-10-14T15:37:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:37:37","slug":"dr-ryan-lavalley-delivers-keynote-address-for-wv-occupational-therapy-association-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/cpl\/2025\/10\/dr-ryan-lavalley-delivers-keynote-address-for-wv-occupational-therapy-association-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Ryan Lavalley delivers keynote address for WV Occupational Therapy Association conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5079\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/cpl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1281\/2025\/10\/News_10-14-2025_Ryan-Lavalley-gives-keynote-at-WV-OTA-2025-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Dr. Ryan Lavalley delivers keynote at the 2025 West Virginia Occupational Therapy Association annual conference\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/cpl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1281\/2025\/10\/News_10-14-2025_Ryan-Lavalley-gives-keynote-at-WV-OTA-2025-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/cpl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1281\/2025\/10\/News_10-14-2025_Ryan-Lavalley-gives-keynote-at-WV-OTA-2025-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/cpl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1281\/2025\/10\/News_10-14-2025_Ryan-Lavalley-gives-keynote-at-WV-OTA-2025-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/cpl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1281\/2025\/10\/News_10-14-2025_Ryan-Lavalley-gives-keynote-at-WV-OTA-2025-600x600.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/cpl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1281\/2025\/10\/News_10-14-2025_Ryan-Lavalley-gives-keynote-at-WV-OTA-2025.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>CPL Primary Lead Dr. Ryan Lavalley delivered the keynote address for the West Virginia Occupational Therapy Association&#8217;s 29th Annual Conference in Charleston, WV last week. In his keynote, &#8220;Fire in the Mountain: What Occupational Therapy Can Learn from Appalachian Resilience,&#8221; Ryan spoke about how lessons learned from Appalachian history and resilience can inform an expansion of occupational therapy into community practice areas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was so grateful for the opportunity to return home and deliver the keynote lecture for the WV OTA conference,&#8221; said Ryan, who grew up in West Virginia. &#8220;It was such a joy to reconnect with practitioners and faculty from across the state and hear their stories of practice, resilience, and leadership.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the keynote, Ryan highlighted the intersection of history and everyday life through his own experiences growing up in Appalachia and his evolving relationship to the region.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5094 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/cpl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1281\/2025\/10\/News_10-14-2025_Ryan-Lavalley_WV-OTA-Keynote-Presentation-300x168.png\" alt=\"Presentation titled &quot;Fire in the Mountains: What Occupational Therapy can Learn from Appalachian Resilience&quot; by Dr. Ryan Lavalley, PhD, OTR\/L\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/cpl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1281\/2025\/10\/News_10-14-2025_Ryan-Lavalley_WV-OTA-Keynote-Presentation-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/cpl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1281\/2025\/10\/News_10-14-2025_Ryan-Lavalley_WV-OTA-Keynote-Presentation-768x430.png 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/cpl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1281\/2025\/10\/News_10-14-2025_Ryan-Lavalley_WV-OTA-Keynote-Presentation-600x336.png 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/cpl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1281\/2025\/10\/News_10-14-2025_Ryan-Lavalley_WV-OTA-Keynote-Presentation.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>&#8220;When I first left West Virginia, I felt a lot of stigma and hesitancy about being from the mountains, distancing myself from my history and culture,&#8221; said Ryan. &#8220;But if you were forged in the fire of these mountains, or have made the effort to get familiar with them, you know we come from a long history of survival, resilience, and transformation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The keynote delved into this history, highlighting case studies in which West Virginians&#8217; everyday lives offer invaluable lessons to occupational therapy practice today. For example, residents creatively seceded from Virginia in 1863 by denouncing the state government, convening an alternate state government, and granting themselves permission to secede, which enabled them to create a West Virginia state government attuned to the needs of mountain life. Years later, unsafe and exploitative conditions in coal mines prompted one of the largest union movements in U.S. history, marked by racial and cultural solidarity that prioritized community over company.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/cpl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1281\/2025\/10\/News_10-14-2025_Ryan-Lavalley_WV-OTA-Keynote_Slide.png\" alt=\"Dr. Ryan Lavalley delivers keynote at the 2025 West Virginia Occupational Therapy Association annual conference\" width=\"450\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/cpl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1281\/2025\/10\/News_10-14-2025_Ryan-Lavalley_WV-OTA-Keynote_Slide.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/cpl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1281\/2025\/10\/News_10-14-2025_Ryan-Lavalley_WV-OTA-Keynote_Slide-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/cpl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1281\/2025\/10\/News_10-14-2025_Ryan-Lavalley_WV-OTA-Keynote_Slide-768x420.png 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/cpl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1281\/2025\/10\/News_10-14-2025_Ryan-Lavalley_WV-OTA-Keynote_Slide-600x328.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>Occupational therapists can draw on these strategies for prioritizing health and community in challenging oppressive health systems today. To demonstrate how to translate lessons learned to practice, Ryan shared examples from the CPL&#8217;s work with community partners such as the Orange County Department on Aging, the Orange County Home Preservation Coalition, and Habitat for Humanity of Orange County.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5078\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 260px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5078\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/cpl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1281\/2025\/10\/News_10-14-2025_Ryan-Lavalley-and-Barbara-Lavalley-Benton-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Dr. Ryan Lavalley with his mother, Barbara Lavalley Benton, at the 2025 West Virginia Occupational Therapy Association annual conference\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/cpl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1281\/2025\/10\/News_10-14-2025_Ryan-Lavalley-and-Barbara-Lavalley-Benton-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/cpl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1281\/2025\/10\/News_10-14-2025_Ryan-Lavalley-and-Barbara-Lavalley-Benton-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/cpl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1281\/2025\/10\/News_10-14-2025_Ryan-Lavalley-and-Barbara-Lavalley-Benton-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/cpl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1281\/2025\/10\/News_10-14-2025_Ryan-Lavalley-and-Barbara-Lavalley-Benton-600x600.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/cpl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1281\/2025\/10\/News_10-14-2025_Ryan-Lavalley-and-Barbara-Lavalley-Benton.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Ryan with his mother, Barbara Lavalley Benton, at the WV OTA conference.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And the conference featured a familiar face\u2014Ryan&#8217;s mother, Barbara Lavalley Benton, who leads art workshops for people with disabilities through the <a href=\"https:\/\/westedgefactory.com\/\">West Edge Factory<\/a> in Huntington, WV. 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