2. Presenters Joshua Skolnick - Director of Individual Service Initiatives and Community Based Programming Christopher McMullan - Community Transition Coordinator Anita Prasad - Community Programming Specialist Anita Prasad - Community Programming Specialist Anita Prasad - Community Programming Specialist Anita Prasad - Community Programming Specialist Anita Prasad - Community Programming Specialist Anita Prasad - Community Programming Specialist Anita Prasad - Community Programming Specialist
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8. The long term decisions, made by all of us, for our students who are transitioning out, will remain with them for: The Next Twenty Years!!!!! BEAR IN MIND
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12. Quality Job Development is always based on individual interests and preferences in terms of task and environment
20. The Five Accomplishments Discover Capacity Growth in Relationships (belonging) Sharing Ordinary Places Building Community Contribution Choice Create Vision Developing Supports Sharing Resources Respect ® Connie Lyle O’Brien, John O’Brien
24. Person-Centered Planning processes are learned and used as a matter of course. The focus is on valuing a person’s unique gifts, abilities and contributions.
51. Relationship Reality Friends Family Paid Service Providers Community Members People with developmental disabilities often have little or no friends. The more significant the disability the fewer real friends they usually have. People with developmental disabilities often have less direct family involvement than their non-disabled peers. The reality of life for a person with a developmental disability is that almost all major life decisions are made by paid service providers and not by them or their families. People with developmental disabilities have substantially little community involvement as compared to their non-disabled peers, and what they do have is much more controlled.
52. Not everyone has to try everything or “I will not flip burgers and you can’t make me!”
53. • Giving someone a choice is always intentional. • Choice must be respected • Making good choices comes from the opportunity to learn from bad ones • Choice processes can be taught, but choices can not.
