Week of July 18th, 2022
Thanks John & Kristi
for this week's @work bit!
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John's usual--

While we don't seem to have many pictures to prove it this week apparently-- CLI was back in full swing last week. It was good to see everyone back after the extended Independence Day break.

We're getting ready for our next cornhole tournament on Friday evening, July 29th at Suhr Park. Then, two weeks later on Friday, August 12th, CLI is going to hold a 40 year reunion at the CLI workshop, if you can believe it. We'll be holding an open house-picnic from 2pm - 6pm and we hope to get lots of old friends to drop in-- clients, staff, family, neighbors, SSAs & other County pets, whoever-- to stop in to say hi & grab some food.

We though a reunion would be fun when we realized that 2022 was the 40th year for the workshop and because CLI is expanding some of workshop-based services again.

CLI ran a fun, productive shop for more than 3 decades before COVID. However, while there were lots of good things about the workshop, but there's no getting around that it is a segregated service site. Ohio's laws are not supposed to allow segregated services to be paid for by Medicaid after 2022. However, there may be some walk-back on this. CLI has been having a tough time getting our community-integrated services authorized over the past year. It will definitely be interesting to see how this shakes out over the 2nd half of 2022. There hasn't been too much talk about segregation up until this week, when DODD pushed out a webinar about community-integration and Ohio's "settings" rule. There's a link to that webinar below if you're interested.

Anyway back to the workshop reunion on 8/12-- we'll be doing lots of promotion and special invites as we get closer. We really want to see all of our old friends again. If you know anyone who has a connection to the CLI Workshop, please share this open invitation for 8/12 with them. There will be lots of FREE food & entertainment. I know that Firelands Local will have lots of information about the jobs that they have available if anyone's interested in learning more about that.

Have a great week. We'll do better with pictures in our Christmas in July issue.
John
Do you want to work and make money?
CLI & Firelands Local can help you!
So for all of you people who wanted to know when
you could come back to the workshop-- the answer is now.

Firelands Local LLC is paying $9.30 per hour for jobs in local factories or in the former CLI Worshop building.

Interested?
Firelands Local LLC
It is hard to believe that the year is already better than half over. I have been seeing commercials for “Back to School” already. I suppose Christmas is just around the corner.
 
Our good news is that we have continued to stay extremely busy. We have recently picked up several new assembly jobs. 
 
So far this year, we have almost doubled the number of large shred jobs that have been completed. We have completed 76 purges so far this year compared to 40 at this time last year.
 
This growth has created the need for us to hire a full time employee to help us continue our growth. If you or anyone you know is interested, please fill out an application on our website. Firelandslocal.com
 
I would also like to remind you that our next drop off day is Wed. August 3rd. from 9-2. If you can’t make it then. Please give me a call at 419-921-6400 to set up an appointment that is better for your schedule.

James Johnson james@firelandslocal.com 419-921-6400
Good Works Cafe
CLI's Good Works Cafe offers a free community lunch every Friday afternoon at the Norwalk Reservoir Clubhouse. Thanks to the generous donations (money & food), CLI is able to take care of our neighbors and also get some real life restaurant and customer service job training.

If you'd like to learn more or donate--

please contact Rhonda White by phone at
419-706-5136

-- or by email at Rhonda@CLIsupports.com
FAQ(s) of the week:

Q : John mentioned that CLI was going to expand Therapeutic Day Services and would be adding a 2nd community hub. Will this new hub offer the later afternoon (3pm-5pm) service times that CLI used to do?
A: Unfortunately, the 2nd hub space won't help our staffing issue with covering that later afternoon shift. It's a reasonable request, but part of the problem is that so many others want to be home by 4pm. For now, we're limited to ending regular day services at 3 pm. If there are others that would like to extend services later in the day, please let us know. If we could find more people who wanted to share that later time slot, we could adjust staffing & rides for that group of people.

Q: When is CLI going to stop making everyone wear masks in the vans?
A: Staff hate them too, but we're going to keep them on for a while longer. There's actually been a surprising amount of COVID case this summer and we don't want to share germs when we're all crammed together in the vans.
Video(s) o' the week-- got one you'd like to share? Send it in!
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  • increase the earnings, status & quality of life of people with developmental disabilities
  • increase the earnings, status & quality of life of people who support people with developmental disabilities
  • actively work to improve the communities in which we all live