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Community Support and Care | bocs.net.au

Community care is a form of empathy that pushes people to think about their wellbeing as an extension of the needs of those around them. It is a practice that can be implemented formally or informally.

Community support services can have many benefits for individuals with disabilities. For instance, one study found that community support increases the confidence of care-recipients with disabilities in their ability to continue living in the community.

Self-Care

Self-care is the ability of individuals, families and communities to promote health, prevent disease, maintain health, and cope with illness and disability with or without the support of a health worker. As the world struggles to meet its demand for healthcare services, self-care is gaining attention as an important strategy for managing chronic diseases.

A self-care routine can help you improve your mental and physical well-being, reduce stress and anxiety, boost happiness levels, and more. It can also benefit your relationships, increase productivity at work, and boost the immune system. It’s important to remember that self-care isn’t something that should be viewed as selfish. When you take care of yourself, you are better able to provide care for others.

It’s important to note that the definition of self-care varies from person to person. For example, a young person who is busy with school and a social life may need to focus on physical self-care, while someone who is retired might have more of an emphasis on psychological self-care.

Isolation

Although some people may enjoy solitude, isolation is an unwelcome state that often carries health risks. Unlike loneliness, which can occur with any amount of social contact, social isolation results from a lack of connections. Individuals who suffer from isolation may benefit from talk therapy, such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). CBT sessions help individuals identify misperceptions and reshape negative thinking.

Communities across the globe are taking innovative steps to address the rise of isolation. They use community care strategies to connect people not only to each other but also to healthcare professionals and resources. For example, Zimbabwe’s Friendship Bench program, now adapted in eight countries from Malawi to Canada, provides a gateway to mental health support by putting trained community members on benches at clinics and communities to offer assistance with tasks of daily living. This helps individuals stay connected to the community and improves their quality of life. It can also reduce the strain on healthcare systems, a key element of the COVID-19 pandemic's physical distancing measures.

Social Media

Social media is a powerful tool for community support and care. Its accessibility allows it to reach a wide audience, especially when it comes to crisis management during times of emergency or natural disaster. It can also be used to provide education on a variety of topics.

In addition to providing educational information, a social media team can be used to promote events and programs in the community. For example, COMPASS uses Twitter to post promotions for regular scholarly events (eg, monthly journal club discussions focusing on articles addressing health equity and social determinants of health) and picture-based promotions of community partnered community health and wellness events.

Moreover, it is important for community-oriented organizations to maintain an active social media presence so that they can be a source of information during emergency situations. They can monitor all relevant queries and comments, hashtags and posts from fans and followers on their owned profiles, and respond to them as quickly as possible. Unanswered comments and questions can damage brand reputation, and the longer a problem is left unsolved, the harder it will be to recover.

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The Best Nursing Agencies in Sydney to Boost Your Staff and Your Bottom Line

A nursing agency is a company that provides nurses to hospitals, clinics, and other medical facilities. Nurses are an essential part of the healthcare team. They help doctors and other medical professionals provide care to patients by performing various clinical duties. Nurses can specialize in a number of different fields such as pediatrics, geriatrics, or emergency care.

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[dominioncareservices]

Lessons Learned From The First 30 Days Of Running A Home Care Business

Introduction: What is a Home Care Service?

A home care service is a type of health care that helps people with their day-to-day activities.

It is most often used for people who are unable to take care of themselves.

A home care service can help people with a variety of tasks. This includes cooking, cleaning, laundry, and transportation to appointments.

It can also include providing companionship and emotional support.

How to Decide If You Need a Home Care Provider?

A home care provider can be an integral part of your elder care. If you are looking for a home care provider, there are some things you will want to consider before choosing one.

The first thing that you will want to think about is how much time they offer. This is important because not all providers offer the same amount of hours or days per week. You will also want to think about what type of services they offer, and whether or not they offer transportation services.

The Challenges of Being an In-Home Caregiver

Caregivers are at risk of developing mental health problems because of the high-stress levels that they have to cope with.

Social isolation and lack of fulfillment in caregiving can lead to depression, anxiety, and other mental health problems. Caregivers often feel like they're not doing enough, or they're not doing it right. That can lead to feelings of guilt, anger, and resentment.

Caregivers are often underemployed and don't have a chance for advancement in their careers or education opportunities for themselves.

How To Find A Quality Home Care Provider For Your Senior Loved One?

When you are looking for a Home Care Service provider for your loved one, there are many things to consider. You want a provider that will be caring and attentive to their needs, as well as someone who is experienced and qualified. There are many home care providers out there so how do you find the right one?

The first step is to speak with your loved one about what they want in a caregiver. If they are able, ask them what they like or dislike about their current caregiver. This will give you an idea of what they need in a new caregiver and it will also help them feel involved in the process.

Next, it’s important to look at the credentials of potential care providers. There should be no question that the person you hire has experience providing care to seniors and is qualified by law to do so.

#Home care services #Home nursing services #home care assistance #Personal care provider #Personal care services #Community support services #Dominion Care Services #disability support worker #service #health #health care #business #news

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8 Steps to Finding the Right Peer Support Specialists

Peer support specialists are paraprofessionals who deal with people who have mental health or developmental problems. They offer peer support and peer counseling to people in their communities, assisting them in becoming more self-sufficient.

Peer support experts are also known as peer counselors, community support specialists, and peer support specialists. Whatever name they go by, they all have the same goal: to assist people in overcoming obstacles and leading better, healthier lives.

8 Steps to Finding the Right Peer Support Specialist

The following five “key steps” were discovered to account for the unique efficiency of peer support specialists, in addition to the obvious components that were determined to be crucial for successful peer-to-peer programs:

Social support: The effectiveness of social support and its advantages deserve an explanation, even if it is referenced multiple times in this study since it is a key component of peer counseling programs. Peer support is believed to involve emotional support, knowledge and guidance, useful aid, and assistance in comprehending or interpreting events. Peer support and cohesiveness serve as protective factors for troops exposed to combat-related stresses, preventing PTSD and other stress-related mental health issues, according to a growing body of research. For American troops who have experienced sexual assaults and other traumatic events, peer support has been shown to be a protective factor in the period immediately following traumatic stress exposure. Peer-to-peer support programs may help troops cope with operational stress and lessen symptoms of stress-related mental illness since they boost social support from peers.

Practical Experience: The knowledge base of peer support specialists based on actual experience is referred to as experiential knowledge. Peer support specialists who share experiences with the person seeking support — whether they be former soldiers, police officers, firefighters, or alcoholics in recovery — have more authority as “experts” in addressing the issues and difficulties the person is facing. Through a process of social identification in which the individual more easily recognizes the peer support specialists as “like me,” sharing comparable experiences and backgrounds also helps to create a feeling of social cohesiveness.

Trust: Any mental health intervention must have trust to be effective. According to a nationwide VA research, war veterans with mental health issues are more likely to trust peer support specialists than standard hospital professionals to provide them with care. What exactly is trust, and how does it develop between two strangers? The broad expectation that a person is honest, selfless, not going to take advantage of others, reliable, or “knows his thing,” is how a well-known and widely important theory on trust defines it. Because of their shared experiences (similar experiences implying that the counselor “knows what he or she is talking about”), peers are more likely to gain trust rapidly in the peer support setting.

Ease of access: The most readily available mental health support for other military personnel, both on and off the battlefield, comes from their peers. This is especially true in a theater where they interact, fight, and coexist. Therefore, it is crucial for assuring access to treatment that service members who serve as direct conduits to resources for physical, spiritual, and/or psychological wellbeing. Access must be as simple and accessible as feasible to promote participation given the anxieties and stigma that service members and veterans frequently associate with seeking mental health treatment. The success of the vet clinics, which are community-based rather than housed in VA medical hospitals, can be attributed in part to their accessibility. Some of the studied programs help only during specific hours.

Empathy: Understanding another person’s thoughts and feelings is referred to as empathy. You can be tasked with assisting others going through a mental health crisis as a peer support expert. It’s crucial that you can relate to them and make them feel understood because this may be a highly stressful and emotional period for someone.

Nonjudgmental attitude: One of the most critical qualities for a peer support specialist is a nonjudgmental attitude. They deal with a wide range of mental health issues and must be able to listen to them without passing judgment. This enables them to establish an accepting environment in which their customers may speak up about their difficulties.

Confidentiality: Confidentiality is the assurance that whatever information you acquire about your clients will remain private. As a peer support specialist, you may hear sensitive material about your client’s personal life, therefore this is a crucial component of your profession. Any information you gather about your clients should never be shared with anybody else.

Problem-solving abilities: enable you to spot problems and generate solutions. As a peer support specialist, you may work with people who are going through a difficult time emotionally. You may utilize your problem-solving abilities to assist them in resolving their issues and overcoming their obstacles. Problem-solving skills may also be used to assist your team members in resolving disagreements and improving communication.

ABOUT –

The Northeast Independent Living Program, or NILP, offers a variety of programs, one of which is the Older Adult Peer Service (OAPS), which focuses on peer support. Peer support is defined as “the act of offering and receiving encouragement and help with the goal of achieving long-term rehabilitation.” “Peer supporters provide emotional support, share information, teach skills, provide practical assistance, and link people with resources, opportunities, supportive groups, and peer counseling,”

COAPS Specialists are 55+ years old and have lived experience with mental health difficulties. They work at NILP services as Certified Older Adult Peer Specialists (COAPS). They’ve been professionally educated to provide compassionate, non-judgmental listening and problem-solving assistance to older persons who may be experiencing social isolation, loneliness, or other associated issues. The University of Pennsylvania has certified COAPS Specialists as MA Certified Peer Support Specialists, and they have undergone evidence-based training.

CONCLUSION-

Peer support has been shown in studies to have considerable advantages, such as fewer hospitalizations and improved recovery results.

As a peer support expert, you may encourage and assist others by letting them know you’ve been down the same road with peer counseling. Your words of encouragement might give those who are dealing with mental health issues renewed hope that their situation will improve as well.

At NILP, Older Adult Peer Service (OAPS) plays a vital role in the lives of older persons (55+) who have endured trauma, mental health difficulties, and/or drug addiction by providing companionship and community activities that promote healthy social interaction and personal growth. It’s a program run by our Northeast Recovery Learning Community (NERLC), and it’s funded by the Medicaid Frail Elder Waiver 1115. (FEW).

Source:https://northeastindependentlivingprogram.wordpress.com/2022/06/29/8-steps-to-finding-the-right-peer-support-specialists/

#Peer support specialists #community support services #Senior independent living #Peer support

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed a bill that is aimed at fighting homelessness.

Called “Home IL,” it will bring state agencies, nonprofit organizations and other advocates together. The bill focuses on an equity-based approach, which includes the voices and contributions of those who have experience homelessness.

It codifies the collaboration to move Illinois to “functional zero” homelessness by bolstering the safety net, targeting high-risk populations, expanding affordable housing, securing financial stability for unhoused individuals and closing the mortality gap.

“Every person deserves access to safe shelter and the dignity that comes with housing,” Pritzker said. “This is a first-of-its-kind multi-agency cooperative effort — bringing together state agencies, nonprofit organizations, advocates, and people with lived experience to prevent and end homelessness. I’m grateful for their dedication and believe that together, we can prevent and end homelessness once and for all.”

Rockford has already taken strides in this aspect. In 2017, it became the first community to reach “functional zero” levels among veterans and the chronically homeless.

Illinois’ Interagency Task Force and Community Advisory Council works across 17 state departments and agencies, as well as over 100 processes, programs and policies, to develop a comprehensive plan to combat homelessness.

The goal of the plan is to prevent shelter entry or ensure that shelter stays are limited and lead to quick transitions into stable living situations.

Pritzker has also committed about $360 million for the initiative in his FY24 budget. These investments include:

• $118 million to support unhoused populations seeking shelter and services, including $40.7 million in the Emergency and Transitional Housing Program.

• $50 million in Rapid ReHousing services for 2,000 households, including short-term rental assistance and targeted support for up to two years.

• $40 million in Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) Capital funds to develop 90+ new PSH units providing long term rental assistance and case management.

• $37 million in Emergency Shelter capital funds to create more than 460 non-congregate shelter units.

• $35 million for supportive housing services, homeless youth services, street outreach, medical respite, re-entry services, access to counsel, and other shelter diversion supports.

• $21.8 million to provide homelessness prevention services to approximately 6,000 more families.

• $30 million for court-based rental assistance.

• $15 million to fund Home Illinois Innovations Pilots.

• $12.5 million to create 500 new scattered site PSH units.

“People experiencing the trauma of housing instability are our neighbors and community members who deserve to be treated with humanity and dignity. With this cooperative effort, Illinois is ensuring our state agencies can continue to collaborate, and that stakeholders are at the table with us, to support our most vulnerable in living healthy, well, and with dignity.” Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton said. “Our state is making it clear that we will continue to work together so we can all move forward, and we will focus on holistic strategies that bring us closer to ending homelessness in our state.”

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[we-love-morioh-cho]

#THIS CHAPTER.........GIRL........ #always support women always 😌 #jojolion spoilers #reading jojolion #mine #jjba #jojos bizarre adventure #art #gif #jojolion #kaato higashikata #jobin higashikata #if I lived in the jojo universe I would've been protesting for her release outside that prison everyday for 15 years #killing that boy was an act of feminism and community service thank you ma'am 🫡

[merueeet]

Hello. I'm Rada. Rada Žilka. Or Meruet. Or Amogus. My previous account was banned because I wrote to uli "ok Newlow fanclub". Looks like Tumblr thinks it's illegal to be a Dominic fanclub… Well, we can't help but agree!

#dominic newlow #fking bstard #how could you #I know that some people in the Sims community have already faced a similar problem and it was solved by contacting the support service but. #My account wasn't that big and I had nothing to lose so I just created a new one #of course I regret some things but hopefully it will be more motivation to start drawing again lol

[starlooove]

I rlly liked red hood the hill bc besides the gift it completely ignored everything else with the batfam which to meeee I’m taking it as the hill has been overlooked by the bats forever (see Orpheus rising) so yeah nobody there gives a fuck about those people and jason knows better than to bring that shit over there

#genuinely tho #I dislike the trend rn of simplifying Jason and Bruce’s issues and making it seem like Bruce was nice and accepting all along and Jason just #needs to get with the program #like the fanficication of that and the Damian Bruce issues or Damian tim issues or even Dick and bruce issues #where everything comes down to the kids being insecure and Bruce being bad at communicating #which has always been PART of the main issues but using that as the crux and lens through which a solution will be acheived is a stretch #a stretch only made in fix it fics that is picked up by ppl who dont read shit and then writers who dont read dont care and get a check #THIS IS MY ISSUE WITH WHERE IT SEEMS BATFAM IS GOING THAT IS NOT AN ISSUE I HAVE WITH RE #NOT ABOUT RED HOOD THE HILL #back to red hood the hill #i DO like them #playing off how jason has always been able to relax there #with a community that has eachothers back #and the flip from #his early red hood days to seeing dana go that path is soooo #what i find interesting tho as that he positions himself as support and backup more than a deterrant #like yes he does try to talk her down a lot but most of the time hes living his life with a worried eye on her #and i think it shows to how he reacted to ppl (bruce) being heavy handed with him #and u know i love the batfam repeating awful cycles shit i think its very interesting that this is one jason didnt repeat #maybe bc hes so close to the feeling or that dana isnt to him what he was to bruce or even that hes just relaxing and thinking clearly and #above all trusts her #most toxic fun future would be for her to break that trust and him to go crazy but thats a diff rant #anyways my entire summary for jasons character is that THAT is what good coochie does to a nigga #carmen thank you for your service another crazy off the street 🙏🏾 #red hood and the hill #oh. still no Orpheus mention #no it doesn’t hurt less anytime 💔 #Jason Todd

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What Does a Community Support Agency Do?

Provide information and assistance to individuals seeking emergency assistance, housing or financial help. Duties include making home visits and accompanying clients to group meetings and community activities. Properly maintaining client and program records is also a must.

These professionals act as liaisons between their clients and local programs that can help them with public assistance, food, shelter, gas utility payments and jobs. They may charge a service fee, or be paid through government funds.

Socialization

Community Support Agency Llc is a mental health clinic located at 44 Dream Avenue in Delco, North Carolina. It offers outpatient treatment and partial hospitalization/day treatment services. It also offers psychotherapy and behavioral therapy. It serves adolescents, adults and seniors / older adults.

Community based programs designed to promote independence, productivity and integration. Operates from a family empowerment philosophy and includes multiple types of social supports mixed with professional interventions. Examples of these services are family support groups, parent training by lay therapists and parent aides, membership in recreational centers and transportation and homemaker services.

Community supports are services provided in accordance with an individual’s individualized plan that maximize their immediate and continued community functioning. Community support staff teach, model and practice skills with persons served in order to help them become successful in the living, working, learning and social environments of their choice. Community support services are often provided for a service fee. Some are available for free.

Education

Education services focus on enabling individuals to become more competent in the living, work, learning and social environments of their choice. Staff teach, model, and practice skills with consumers.

Education Support Services are based on the specific goals documented in each participant’s service plan. These can include, but are not limited to: tutoring and classes to receive a Test Assessing Secondary Completion (TASC) diploma; vocational training or apprenticeship programs; community college, university or any classes to improve knowledge or skills in chosen career; and other general adult educational services.

A broad-based citywide coalition of unions and community groups fought alongside UFT members to preserve free student Metrocards, as well as middle school science labs and community arts programming. Education justice is a core UFT policy. UFT educators also participate in a variety of education initiatives, including the Brooklyn Education Collaborative, the Middle School Initiative and the CC9 Project. Education services also provide family support to address concerns, navigate the school system and connect parents with community resources.

Behavioral Health

A community support agency can help you with your mental health needs. They can provide psychotherapy, medication management and behavioral treatment services. They can also offer socialization and supervision activities. They have a team of highly trained and experienced professionals who can treat young adults, children and adults. They are also able to treat military service members and clients referred by the court/legal system.

These services are time limited based on individual need and are rehabilitative in nature. The goals are to increase self-esteem, a sense of identity and to develop meaningful relationships with others. They can also help with housing, medical and health, education and employment.

Behavioral health services can include Assertive Community Treatment Teams (ACT). These teams consist of psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, and certified peer support specialists who are available 24/7 to help adult individuals with severe and persistent mental illness live in their homes rather than institutions. They can provide an array of community-based services including medication delivery, homemaker services, and respite services.

Employment

Providing opportunities for individuals to develop and build skills necessary to maintain healthy personal, family and community connections. These services may include teaching and assistance in daily living activities, socialization, recreation, community activities, advocacy and other forms of support.

Oftentimes, community support staff will assist the individuals they serve in navigating their local communities by connecting them with formal recovery supports in order to obtain access to housing, employment and education services. They will also assist in linking to community based activities that are personcentered and designed for people with behavioral health diagnoses.

A Community Support Agency strives to recognize that everyone is a valuable member of society and works to ensure their inclusion and full community participation. They accomplish this through applied research, policy advocacy and training programs for Direct Support Professionals. They also work to elevate the profession by fostering leadership and promoting system reform. Through this, they help to transform the way that society views and values people with disabilities.

#community support agency #community support and care #community support program #community support services #community support worker

[ivygorgon]

AN OPEN LETTER to THE U.S. CONGRESS

Put the Good Jobs for Good Airports standards in the FAA reauthorization bill!

104 so far! Help us get to 250 signers!

I’m calling on you to stand with working people, passengers and our communities by supporting Good Jobs for Good Airports standards (GJGA) in the FAA reauthorization bill. Airports should and can be strong, vibrant drivers of good jobs in every part of our country. The Good Jobs for Good Airports standards are central to that mission and our nation’s future prosperity. Billions of our public dollars are invested in our nation’s aviation system every year, and we must ensure that our public resources serve the public good. That includes ensuring airports better serve the needs of our families, our passengers, our communities and the airport service workers who make it all possible.

It is evident that our air travel industry is in crisis. From record flight cancellations during summer travel peaks to mountains of lost luggage during the holiday travel season. Airports are critical publicly-funded infrastructure vital to the health of our local communities and global economy, but right now airports aren't working the way they should for travelers or airport service workers — a largely Black, brown, multiracial and immigrant service workforce. These working people, including cleaners, wheelchair agents, baggage handlers, concessionaires and ramp workers, keep airports safe and running smoothly even through a global pandemic, climate disasters and busy travel seasons. Yet many are underpaid and underprotected--even as some major airlines rake in record profit and billions of our tax dollars are invested in our national air travel system.

Domestic passenger numbers increased by 80% between 2020 and 2021, total industry employment fell by nearly 14%, leaving airport service workers to sometimes clean entire airplanes in as little as five minutes as many take on additional responsibilities outside of their typical job duties. Meanwhile, wages have barely budged for airport service workers in 20 years. The Good Jobs for Good Airports standards has the power to transform workers’ lives by ensuring airport service workers have the pay and benefits they need to care for their families.

The Good Jobs for Good Airports standards would help build a stronger, safer, more resilient air travel industry by making airport service jobs good jobs with living wages and benefits like affordable healthcare for all airport workers. Airport service workers at more than 130 covered airports would be supported through established wage and benefit standards, putting money back into hundreds of local economies and helping families thrive. If passed over 73% of wage increases will go to workers making $20 or less, estimates show.

I urge you to include the Good Jobs for Good Airports standards in the FAA reauthorization bill, and help ensure our public money serves the public good.

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[hachikos]

it's insane to me how people in the US who supported an insurrection are living life but people who criticize israel for its occupation of palestine are losing their jobs, harrased, beaten, doxxed, etc.

#yeah ok some were arrested the avg sentence ended up being 60 days and most were on house arrest or got community service #meanwhile senators and reps are pushing for ppl to lose their green card or citizenship if they support palestine #like as an american you can do whatever you want to america but they draw the line at israel a foreign country that's wild

[nilporg]

Vocational Rehabilitation Services for People with Disabilities

Any program that aims to return disabled people to their best physical, mental, social, occupational, and economic abilities is known as vocational rehabilitation. In certain areas, vocational rehabilitation services are a workers’ compensation benefit that promises alternatives to assist workers who have become physically or intellectually impaired and can no longer do the same occupations they did before. Most vocational rehabilitation services, whether part of workers’ compensation or not, assist injured people in getting training for new vocations, finding employment, keeping jobs, and establishing long-term careers.

Vocational rehabilitation is available in both governmental and private sectors. Each state has its own vocational rehabilitation services that are jointly sponsored by the federal government and the state, with comparable eligibility requirements, regulations, and services. Eligibility standards are usually broad, allowing anybody with a handicap that requires employment aid to participate. State veterans offices also provide similar benefits to veterans who have become handicapped or disabled due to their military service. A variety of private businesses and organizations also provide vocational rehabilitation services. From nonprofit groups to insurance firms, these private suppliers are diverse.

Service entails several processes, such as diagnosis, creating a personalized written vocational rehabilitation program, counseling and guidance, physical and mental recovery, training, job placement, and post-employment assistance. Although a doctor refers many vocational rehabilitation clients to self-refer, vocational rehabilitation service clients are frequently referred to rehabilitation agencies by schools, hospitals, welfare agencies, and other agencies or organizations.

NEED AND GOAL OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION-

The ultimate goal of vocational rehabilitation is to place its clients in employment. It is a very customized, goal-oriented practice.

Every nation’s social and economic progress depends heavily on vocational education. Vocational training entails instructing students in a specific skill that will help prepare them for a particular vocation.

Employment is crucial to combating poverty and achieving inclusion for all people, including those with disabilities (PWD). Employment improves a person’s feeling of self-worth and dignity while also increasing social connectivity and self-sufficiency.

Because it fosters social inclusion, gives people with disabilities a sense of independence, and improves their general wellbeing, work is a crucial step in their rehabilitation and empowerment.

What Role Can Vocational Rehabilitation Play in Your Life?

People with disabilities can have meaningful professions with the proper training, preparation, and workplace accommodations. The Vocational Rehabilitation Services team can assist you in preparing for, obtaining, and maintaining employment and living as independently as feasible.

Achieving the most thorough physical and psychological rehabilitation possible

Increasing quality of life via developing life management skills, a sense of direction, and resilience.

Re-establishing social ties with family and neighbors

Discovering a new and useful community role

To the best of one’s abilities, comprehending and managing bodily and mental health difficulties.

Assisting the individual in returning to safe and meaningful work as soon as possible to avoid further impairment to physical and mental health and wellbeing caused by long-term absence from work; and reducing the human and financial costs of disability for ADF members, former troops, their families, and the wider community.

About NILP-

People with disabilities, according to the Independent Living philosophy, are the best judges of their needs and service possibilities. They get the courage to make adjustments in their lives and become more self-sufficient and self-reliant via peer counseling and role modeling with other individuals with disabilities.

The Northeast Independent Living Program, Inc. is a consumer-run Independent Living Center that advocates for and supports those with all types of disabilities who wish to live independently in their communities. We are well-known throughout the state for aiding people in recovering and preserving their freedom and equality in society via Awareness & Referrals, Outreach, Capacity Building, Group Counseling, and Transitions.

Conclusion-

When dealing with disability, persons with impairments may need to be educated and empowered about new responsibilities and possibilities, even if they can make decisions about their own needs and lives. It is also critical for people to reclaim control of the situation and become valuable members of society if they cannot make choices. This is the primary service NILP, The Northeast Independent Living Program, Inc., provides to those who are disabled. Not only with this but also with various other services to analyze their talents, shortcomings, career aspirations, and objectives.

Source:https://northeastindependentlivingprogram.wordpress.com/2022/06/17/vocational-rehabilitation-services-for-people-with-disabilities/

#Rehabilitation Services #Awareness #personal care services #community support services

[teamhawkeye]

god give me the strength not to pick a fight with some stupidass troll on ao3-

#i just reported the 'fic' for violation of terms and services instead but SHEESH- #don't some kids have anything better to do than harass people in a shipping community that keeps to itself and properly tags their fics? #these people profess to love the same game as me. and yet absorb literally nothing from it and just proclaim blatant lies as canon #because they have no media literacy & can't process simple information given IMMEDIATELY in game & refuse to engage beyond surface level #we really live rent free in these people's heads and go out of our way to avoid them and not interact #and then they in return invade our spaces and say absolute bullshit not supported in the slightest by canon but proclaim themselves correct #on god it must be tiring to be so fucking stupid and so utterly wrong and making it everyone else's problem

[lotsadeer]

So, re my experience with Trans Family Support Services.

Some context: TFSS is a trans support organization started by a cis woman with a trans son. I do not want to downplay the good it does on the west coast with this post. They're a valuable resource in the places they know well.

And that's the problem.

The Huntsville, AL trans community partnered with TFSS this year to plan Trans Pride events. They hired one local person to be the liaison and coordinator for "Alabama", and assigned him tasks and jobs that he should have had a team to help him with. TFSS stalled on pride planning multiple times with him, always told him to ask for help when he needed it but never gave it when he asked, and ultimately fired him when he asked for disability accommodations.

Right before he was fired, he had put together the planning committee for Trans Pride. I was the Entertainment head. TFSS went silent for a month, not telling the planning committee anything whatsoever.

From there, it was just red flag after red flag after red flag with TFSS. They promised security, a fence around the event, bag checks, etc and reneged on all of those promises multiple times, waffling instead of committing to anything specific. They refused to listen to the local community on safety.

They repeatedly acted as if we had the same resources they do in California, which, if you know Alabama and the South, we don't. They kept acting as if the police would be enough security when repeatedly police have shown to be untrustworthy.

The head of TFSS, Kathie Moehlig, refused to let the planning committee do its jobs and actually plan and make decisions. Every single decision had to be made through her. She repeatedly tried to backhandedly embarrass and blame the ex-employee in front of the committee for things that were her fault and her responsibility. She never told me what budget I was working with for hiring entertainment, and refused to accept any plan and schedule that didn't include multiple drag entertainers. Which, on that last point, is fine and makes sense, but I don't know the drag performers in my city very well, and despite asking multiple times, no one gave me anyone's info or directed them to sign up.

Not to mention Huntsville has a massive line up of events in June, 9 of which include drag entertainment. So most drag performers were booked solid.

Which was stressful for me, and happened literally last week as of this post.

The past week has been the planning committee head, the person TFSS fired, and myself arguing with Kathie about safety measures. She refused to give us a committed answer, hemming and hawwing about it. The planning head finally had enough, emailed all the vendors that there was no confirmed security, and quit.

I had, as of Friday last week, threatened to quit if Kathie couldn't promise there would be some form of barrier around the event. I had not quit yet.

Yesterday, after the planning head quit, Kathie chose for me, and texted me saying she understood my fears and want to no longer work on the event, and removed me as entertainment head and as a volunteer. I had not quit yet. Which to me, read as Kathie confirming there would be no barrier.

I emailed the entertainment about the lack of security and that if they had questions or concerns to talk to Kathie.

The ex planning head and I are both local queer/trans organizers. And this cis woman from California fired us because we wouldn't refused to budge on matters of safety for our community.

The person TFSS fired is still volunteering, and has told the ex planning head and myself what's happening. Kathie is doing damage control. She sent an email to all the vendors stating that she had hired "a security company" (no name, just a security company) and was working on getting the city permit amended to include barriers. Which was news to literally everyone involved.

Now she has added bag checks and specified entrances and exits.

Pride is this Saturday.

The local community as I know it is furious with TFSS for this shit show. Time is a flat circle and even amongst the queer community, people from the west coast think they can come into the South and fix everything because we don't know anything. And it's infuriating. That was the vibe the entire time, every meeting we had.

Do not work with Trans Family Support Services if you live in the South and Appalachia. It's not worth the headache and stress, and they'll just break every promise they make.

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[caimitos]

saw a post about projecting your ethnicity onto a character and started missing vespa ilkay. so so bad

#pov u grow up in a 3rd world country(/planet) where healthcare workers are exported by the thousands like cheap produce to richer countries #it's your ticket out of poverty as long as you can deal with the loneliness the separation from everyone you know the discrimination etc #ive never talked about my hc that vespas mother was one of them sending money every month visiting every couple of years until it just stop #like why return to the swamps when youre doing fine working on a richer planet w much better living conditions #cost of living rises every year. sending home a % of your salary used to be enough to support your husband and daughter and then it isnt #you know how it goes #vespa is also dead set on this path until ranga realizes that hemorrhaging healthcare workers leaves them with little to none of their own #students on scholarships or in community/state universities are bound by return service agreements and are forbidden to leave the country #until theyve rendered a few years of work on ranga to pay back their tuition + as a really shitty solution to the brain drain problem #this is real in my country btw but my professors say a lot of ppl do break their rsa's and fucked off to work in other countries LOL #our state unis can barely afford decent facilities they do nottt have the budget to chase down their own alumni in other countries! #but the mental image is a bit funny #vespa ilkays first crime: tinakasan ang rsa #i do also think it lines up with her having a network of med friends everywhere in the galaxy (heart of it all) you kind of go into pre/med #expecting most of your classmates to leave to work in other countries eventually. mine are aiming for the usa / uae / europe / japan etc #anyway whether vespa breaks her rsa or not she leaves ranga asap decides to switch careers and the rest is history #i also deeply love the fact that she's superstitious i'm very sad it wasn't highlighted more (i've only heard s1-3) #as someone who did grow up in a rural area and went to more albularyos/folk healers than doctors in my childhood. (they never failed me) #lots of folk illnesses (ex. balis; pasma) local medical superstitions (dont eat noodles in hospital; youll have a really toxic shift) etcc #theres also a lot of potential in tying her past as a rangian + med student + assassin to me idk how to word this properly #being raised on cautionary tales of not to touch/disturb anything in the swamps then being given free reign to poke & prod at things in her #lab classes (now with the proper ppe)....she was having so much fun with the curemother prime too lmao #years of walking hanging bridges docks boathouses in ranga etc gave her great balance & stealth #cracking open alien shellfish in the swamps to cutting open bodies for studying then for assassination.... #I MISS HER SO MUCH BALIK KN SAKEN 😭😭😭😭😭😭 #i get why most people + the canon focuses on her being an assassin bc people find that cooler i guess #but vespa being a swamp girl > 3rd world med student > assassin is so personal To Me. the whole pipeline. eugh. #skl.txt

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