Tara, I hope you don't mind that I used one of your pictures. Check out more of her fabulous pictures at http://www.tarapolcarophotography.blogspot.com/ Today was my first official day of my new job. In October I interviewed for the new program called MyChoices that Familycapped was trying to start. I was told they were interested in me being apart of this program. Well, then they went on a hire freeze. So I took the position I was offered at Enable. MyChoices is a program that gives the individual and family choices of what their child is going to do when they graduate from high school. Its goal is to give them independence and a chance to continue growing. Day Habs are not for everyone.
What you have to do is get a group of people "circle of support" is what they call it together to help make a plan of things that there interested in, ideas for volunteer opportunities, etc. I sat on Kathleen's (girl in picture) circle of support. I've known/worked with Kathleen for 5 years now, starting at the Y Kids Inc program. Chris (Kathleen's mom) approached me asking if I could sit on Kathleen's circle of support since I knew her well and also with interest in me working with her when everything fell into place. So that's where our adventure has started.
Kathleen's plan is the first approved for MyChoices. So she's the first participant and I'm the first employee. Its exciting to see how things are going to pane out because this is more than likely the approach that I will take with Jaylin when he is ready to graduate. So it's been and will continue to be a good learning experience for me.
