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This coming week the highlights from the National Day Calendar site (nationaldaycalendar.com) are:
- Monday - International Worker's Day, May Day, Global Love. School Principals, Law, Silver Star Service, Melanoma, Chocolate Parfait, Mother Goose & Loyalty
- Tuesday - Tuna, Foster Care, Teacher Appreciation, Life Insurance & Truffles
- Wednesday - Interpreter Appreciation, World Press Freedom, Skilled Trades, Montana, Textiles, San Architect, Bike to School, Chocolate Custard, Paranormal, Two Different Color Shoes, Specially-Abled Pets, Garden Meditation & Lumpy Rugs
- Thursday - Self Employment, Passwords, Birds, Weather Observers, Candied Orange Peel, Orange Juice, Renewal, Star Wars, Day of Reason & Day of Prayer
- Friday - Cinco De Mayo, African World Heritage, Portuguese, Midwives, Silence the Shame, School Lunch Hero, Astronaut, Hoagies, Chipotle, Cartoonists & Space
- Saturday- Play Outside, No Diet, Fitness, Kentucky Derby, Comic Books, Bombshells, Start Seeing Monarchs, Join Hands, Crepe Suzettes, Beverages, Nurses, Homebrews & Scrapbooks
- Sunday - Tourism, Packaging Design, Barrier Awareness, Lemonade, Roast Leg of Lamb, Paste Up & Infertility Survival
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Carole is still holding craft classes at the workshop.
Last week's project was Sock Bears, but there's something new every week.
These classes are open to anyone (including other providers)
-- just let us know if you're interested!
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John's usual--
CLI will be rolling out two new programs in the coming weeks. The first is a new Friday/Saturday Job Club (we're still workshopping a more fun name) for people who have a job in the community. There are 2 primary goals for this new service. First is career exploration. Community employment isn't a one & done thing, but a process. We need to do a better job helping people advance their careers and/or make sure that they are making an informed decision about whether to stay in the job they have, or whether to consider something new. One goal of this new program will be to create a forum where people can learn from each other and talk about the jobs they have now and start working toward the job they want if that applies. The second primary goal for this new service will be simply to help employees with DD have normal opportunities to socialize after work and on the weekends. I've been connected to a sheltered workshop program for a long time and I've seen many people quit a good community job to return to the shop because they are lonely and just want to be able to hang out with friends. We need to make that a normal opportunity so that getting a day job doesn't mean that you no longer get a social life.
The second new program is a curriculum of after-hours and weekend services for high school students with DD so that we can help them and their families better anticipate and plan for life after high school. The goals of this program are to provide learning & social opportunities in community-integrated settings and to help kids build a productive transition into their first job, internship, or even day program. The reality is that there is a huge difference in what's available to adults after school. Ohio has developed a lot of new resources for young adults. There's an opportunity to braid some of these new resources to support newly minted young adults if we can just figure out how to start nuts & bolts planning earlier.
Other than that, it's a short week for yours truly this week. I'm taking off this Friday as my oldest, Graeme, graduates from Ohio University this Saturday-- and will officially be off the family payroll this fall when he starts his new job as Athens High School's Physics & Astronomy teacher. 1 down - still 1 more to go. I'm very proud. However-- just going back to the above paragraph about high school students-- Graeme's success now is 100% a result of parental planning/action that started at least 2 years before he graduated. That's true of every college graduate. It's also true of many kids graduating from vocational schools. Anyway, weather forecast for next weekend looks really good, although at the expense of lots of rain this week evidently.
Have a great week!
John
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Participate in the DODD Family/Guardian Caregiver Survey
Attention: Family Caregivers
The Family Caregiver Survey is for a family member or guardian who provides paid or unpaid caregiving to a family member with intellectual or developmental disabilities who receives supports from a county board of developmental disabilities. The data that you provide will allow the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities to understand the challenges faced by family caregivers and formulate policies to overcome them. Click here to learn more about the DODD Family/Guardian Caregiver Survey. If you are interested in participating, please email DODDFamilySurvey@osumc.edu to be sent a link to the Family Caregiver Survey.
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MTD has lots of available work for Firelands Local crews.
Interested? Round-trip transportation is provided!
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James Johnson james@firelandslocal.com 419-921-6400 | |
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CLI is still running our virtual Bingo--
We're doing it on Thursday afternoons and it is open to anyone, whether at home or another day service provider location. It's a lot of fun and a good way to connect with people that you might not otherwise get to see.
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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 would like to donate to this cause--
please contact Rhonda White by phone at 419-706-5136 or by email at Rhonda@CLIsupports.com
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Question of the week
There was no question this week-- got one?
Just ask, if you want to know something, chances are that someone else does too!
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CLI's three-part mission
- 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
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