Shannon Cook is the most recent winner of Ensign’s SPARC award of $2,000. Shannon is currently completing her last year of the Occupational Therapy Assistant Program at Central Community College in Grand Island, Nebraska. She has demonstrated a love of serving those in need through her many volunteer experiences, including Project Homeless Connect, Opportunity House, and the Veteran’s Home of Grand Island Meals on Wheels programs. Shannon is highly regarded by her professors and her fieldwork supervisors and promises to be a wonderful asset to the occupational therapy profession.
As Shannon expressed in her SPARC application essay: “Each patient and the journey they are on is incredibly unique, and each will have their own set of qualities that that will impact their journey to recovery. I am so excited to enter the work force as an OTA practitioner with the role of providing the best care possible for my patients. It will be my mission to make sure I am walking side by side with each patient and helping them accomplish their goals, doing whatever I can to advocate for them and sparking new possibilities for every patient I meet.” Ensign Therapy congratulates Shannon and wishes her the best as she begins her therapy career.