Join us in celebrating the profession!

This March, we invite the entire prosthetic, orthotic and pedorthic (POP) community to join in and contribute—whether through small gestures or large efforts—to help expand the reach of our POP career awareness campaign. Take this opportunity to engage with your community, host awareness-raising activities and celebrate the outstanding professionals within your own organization during this dedicated month of recognition and celebration for the profession.

Our goals for POP Month are three-fold:

• Increase awareness of POP
• Cultivate pride throughout the profession
• Drive career interest that leads to increased enrollment in education programs

This is an opportunity for everyone to reach out to the future workforce and recognize our professionals for the great work they do every day.

POP Month will be an entire month of activities that include a dedicated web page – POPMonth.org, media stories, recurring social media posts, ongoing online advertising, open houses, shadow days and more.

Your organization can get involved right now by partnering with us and committing to being actively involved in conducting outreach and/or hosting activities promoting the profession in March. Those organizations already partnering with us are listed on the POP Month website. Additionally, we have five different toolkits with free materials to help you promote your events, recognize your fellow POP professionals and support your POP Month activities.

Individuals can get involved by becoming a POP Ambassador and sharing their journey with local media, appearing at a local school science fair or volunteering for an open house or shadow days in their community.

We encourage everyone to get involved in whatever way works best for you and your organization. Sign up for future updates at POPmonth.org and make this an event like no other! Go to WhatIsPOP.org for more information on the overall career awareness campaign.