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Monthly Archives: March 2009
Welcome To Spectrum’s Newsletter – a new look!
Welcome to the latest version of Spectrum’s newsletter, now online at https://sscl.wordpress.com/ Feel free to forward this to friends, family, professionals and folks we support (and anyone else you can think of). If you’d like to subscribe, click on the subscribe button (or, if you’ve received this by mistake, please feel free to unsubscribe). Read stories about folks, books, and sites we like, successes we’d like to celebrate and recent and upcoming developments…
our second CARF survey is just around the corner!
From May 27 – 29 CARF surveyors will be visiting folks in their homes and programs and talking to families, staff and volunteers. Learn more about this process… Continue reading →
Posted in community, Disability, families, Great Place to Work, Siblings, Stories, teambuilding, training
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Tagged accreditation, community, Disability, innovation, introduction, training
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The Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP)
The Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP) is a long-term savings vehicle to help you, your child, your family and others save for the long-term financial security of a person with a severe disability. RDSPs can be opened until the year the beneficiary turns 59 and Grant and Bond can be received until the year they turn 49. Continue reading →
Posted in Disability, families, Siblings
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Tagged Disability, families, money, PLAN, RDSP, Spectrum
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Interview with one of our team members: Allyson Rose
Allyson Rose is just one of our great team members that we feel so lucky to have with us! Continue reading →
Posted in community, Disability, families, Great Place to Work, Innovative Practices, Introductions, Person Of The Month, teambuilding
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Tagged ABI, community, Disability, families, fundraising, goal-setting, Great Place to Work, IMAGINE, innovation, introduction, Spectrum, Stories, team building, team members
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Jayne Barrett “Walk with Me” – and the work of “Imagine,” which is hosted by Spectrum
“Imagine” is a small group of very committed volunteers, led by Cheryl Hughes, who organize and facilitate workshops. “Imagine” colloborates with various agencies which provide infrastructure support for their efforts. “Imagine” raises it’s own money, organizes it’s own events, has its own strategic plan but as one of the concerns of the group is making an effort to network with agencies they have made an effort to be hosted by various organizations, the latest of which is Spectrum. part of this colloboration is providing a representative to the “Imagine” board and at this time that is Allyson Rose, of the ABI program. Continue reading →
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Tagged community, Disability, families, Great Place to Work, IMAGINE, innovation, introduction, Spectrum, Stories, training
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Jen Morris’ book review: “Look Me in the Eye” by John Elder Robison
“The book “Look Me in the Eye” by John Elder Robison was recently recommended to me by a friend who has never known, let alone worked with someone with any form of Autism….” Continue reading →
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Tagged autism, Books, community, Disability, families, innovation, introduction, Stories, team members, training
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Training update – intro to ASL, Mandt, leadership, Personal Support Networks, Abuse Prevention
There are many training opportunities available to our team members, ongoing and upcoming! Check here for details. Continue reading →
Posted in Disability, Great Place to Work, Innovative Practices, Personal Supports, Stories, teambuilding, training
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Tagged ABI, accreditation, autism, Books, community, Disability, goal-setting, Great Place to Work, innovation, Spectrum, team building, team members, training
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news about the folks we support
recent news from Paul, Jai, Jan, Gary A, Randy, Wendy, Phil, Ene, Kelly, ABI folks, Diana, Marjorie and Happy Birthday Shirlane! Continue reading →
Posted in community, Disability, families, Innovative Practices, Introductions, Personal Supports, Siblings, Stories
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Tagged art, community, Disability, families, folks we support, Great Place to Work, innovation, introduction, Spectrum, Stories
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siblings of folks with disabilities
Part of the joy of our work has always been working with families. Increasingly it seems that siblings are involved with the folks we support, and more and more stories are being told of these lives. Continue reading →
Posted in Books, Disability, families, Personal Supports, Siblings, Stories, training
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Tagged Books, community, Disability, families, innovation, Stories, training
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Jai: setting and accomplishing goals
Jai – a story to be proud of, contributed by Shelley Klotz, Jai’s mom Continue reading →
Posted in Disability, families, Personal Supports, Stories, training
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Tagged community, Disability, families, folks we support, goal-setting, innovation, Spectrum, Stories, team members, training
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Social Enterprise and Spectrum
Social Enterprise is the intention to run part of your non-profit as a business. The things that we’re really good at here at Spectrum, aside from providing community based supports and what we believe (and hope) to be a certain quality of care and facilitation, are research, writing, and training. This has led to us seizing opportunities to publish and sell some of what we do… Continue reading →
Posted in Books, Disability, fundraising, Great Place to Work, Innovative Practices, Personal Supports, social enterprise, training
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Tagged Books, community, Disability, fundraising, goal-setting, Great Place to Work, innovation, introduction, money, social enterprise, Spectrum, Stories, training
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Teamwork
why do we focus on teamwork and building teams at Spectrum? Continue reading →
Posted in Disability, Great Place to Work, Innovative Practices, Stories, teambuilding, training
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Tagged ABI, accreditation, autism, community, Disability, goal-setting, Great Place to Work, IMAGINE, innovation, Spectrum, team building, training
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Express yourself, Build your network, Find your voice 