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The Usual--
CLI & Firelands Local LLC held our staff Christmas (Vacation) Party last night . We were missing 4 people this year due to other engagements, but this picture (with all 3 Cousin Eddies) really drives home how small our team is these days. Pre-COVID CLI's staff workforce was 36 people, give or take 2. We haven't been more than 20 since & currently we're at 17. The upside is that we are an extremely strong, coordinated team. The downside is that we'd really like to expand to serve more people and do more to meet the needs that we can see-- specifically around supporting people in community jobs and doing more to help young adults transition out of high school to the adult world. One of the exciting things about the DD field right now is that I think that there is finally a DSP career path in which young people can learn and advance. Now we just have to encourage them to step through the front door!
We have just 7 days until a pretty long Christmas break. It looks like it will continue to be cold, so let's dress for the weather we have, not the weather we would prefer. CLI has started working with a car cleaning service-- "The Cleanest Car in Town"-- to help us better stay ahead of keeping our fleet cleaner. Some of the vans were getting pretty questionable. Much of our fleet is older (2015 & 2016 models). We maintain our vehicles well, so we expect to get 2 more years out of these older ones. Please help us keep the vehicles clean (ish) for everyone else by taking all your trash with you when you leave them.
My apologies for taking so long to push out the 2026 Program Calendar. Usually we do this in early November. This fall has been a bit of a whirlwind. Remember this is the default day program calendar only. CLI offers quite a few extracurricular activities and community employment support services that don't show up on this calendar. We're going to try to pull together another March Regional DSP training this spring, but we didn't have the date yet to put that on the calendar. We'll make sure to give everyone plenty of notice once that is scheduled.
Kenilee Lanes has raised just over $90K so far! Only $117K to go! That's all I have for this week. Stay warm and wash those hands!
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