Friday, July 3, 2015

Youth wi/little to do? Told disabled but feel plenty abled? Don’t pass up two free trips to Washington D. C. (maybe)!

Actual chance to attend a 2015 and 2016 conference in Washington D.C. “you commit to”:
Attend the annual national training with your blank team in D.C. October 2015. You will be expected to attend this conference in 2015 and 2016. Travel expenses will be covered by blank.
Jefferson is lite tonight.
Jefferson is lite tonight.
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This program offers:
>(ONCE IN LIFETIME CHANCE TO SEE SO MUCH OF OUR GREAT NATION IN HISTORY, PROCESS AND ALL FREE WHILE LEARNING AND MEETING OTHERS.
>“Complete training in leadership, advocacy skills, youth transition policies, and issues affecting youth with disabilities;
>Create a local plan with your blank team for how you will work together year-round;
>Communicate regularly, including meeting at least once per month, with your local blank team members and other youth at your supporting organization;
>Co-lead meetings with a group of youth to discuss what youth need to make a successful transition to adulthood (“youth transition needs”) and how to improve youth services and opportunities where you live;
>Speak publicly and give presentations to youth, families, and the agencies and organizations that serve youth about how to improve services and opportunities for youth;
>Participate in monthly national blank activities including monthly national conference calls and quarterly webinars or videoconferences with all the blank teams and create youth-driven materials and tools on youth leadership and transition topics;
>Work in collaboration with the existing cohort, or group, of blank teams;
>Be an active member of your blank for at least two years. The estimated time commitment for youth is 10 to 15 hours per month.”
Tomorrow I meet with a person from a nonprofit that qualifies to form a team. Applications for funding must be sent by July 14th, 2015. Although the funding allows for people younger than 18 to 25, this is a parameter that has been set.   This program might fall dead on the launch pad.
Two adults desire in earnest to get this going in the Oklahoma City Metro area to provide more help for young adults in this transition period of life. Youth with disabilities and all disabled are employed at much lower rates than those without a disability.
The two adults meeting tomorrow morning have a desire to thwart this well known fact. I see a social area of this program developing. Meeting friends that you can rely on in life is a golden chance. Knowledge is key in getting ahead in society. Knowledge and skills, once learned, cannot be taken away from you.
To me this chance at forming a group to help young adults explore careers, network to discover friends or job openings in the career you want, providing these young adults with caring older life guides and that want to teach you things that will give you freedom to live life the way you please.
The funding says we have to cover a set amount of material and training in certain skillsets. Beyond that I want to show with innovative programs you can get jobs you love. Checking out how to own your own entrepreneurship by providing options others have ruled out without considering the creative or inventive, “good old American know how!”
I believe in the young adults this group has targeted. If you give me the chance, we are lucky to file for the funds in time, and a nonprofit that allows us to seek refuge under their exempt status; please contact me via Facebook.
Again, I beg of you, remember this will be a rushed work in progress without any promises being able to be made at this point or even further down the road. Prayer is something I believe in and ask you keep me and this possible group formation to accomplish the set goals in mind; of course, I ask for success and a reminder
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to let God                                                                                                                                                                    lead us.

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

The American Dream; Helping Everyone Reach For It!

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WHY ________________? 
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Seemingly bleak outlook!
—Unemployment of youth and adults with Autism, Special Needs and other labels increases over the years.
—News stories of a United States facing a crisis as the rise in the number of people in this area mature and face unemployment. This raises the costs of caring for unemployed and placing stress on a nation that already faces unemployment problems in a wavering economy.
Ideas? What can be done? Funding?
—BETTER TRAINING
—BETTTER EDUCATION
—“GOOD OLD AMERICAN KNOW HOW”
—EXAMINE PROBLEM IN LOGICAL ORDER
  >Then propose solutions
  > Methodically evaluate solutions
A few thoughts
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SPREADING OUR WINGS INTO
BUSINESS OWNERSHIP OF ......(Leaving Ideas out because)
FUNDING (Leaving out information because)
Barriers to overcome/solve
     Social skills
—Overcoming stigma of disabled
>Standard management practices show                 increases in productivity and profits when engaging    and empowering workers.
>Maintain a culture that
**Keeps communication open
**Continues to train/update skills
                                                                      **Remembering disabled face challenges                                                                                                                                              but dislike being thought less of or                                                                    considered on the fringes of society.
     Businesses skills needed
     (Consider _________)
     Transportation
     Education/Training
     Overcoming stigma of
   disabled
Other considerations
—Peer mentoring and modeling
—Health insurance and other benefits
—Setting Parameters
—Partners (How will we proceed?)
—Research legalities and other
—Work on outline of handbook
—Liability
—Future projects (5, 10 and following years)
A STARTING POINT!
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  • FALSE IDEA DISABLED LAZY SEE PDF @ http://askearn.org/docs/brochures/pdf/FAQ_2-ACC.pdf
  “Are employees with disabilities as productive as   employees without disabilities? Yes…” See PDF.
  “Are employees with disabilities absent from work   more often? No…” See PDF.
JOIN ME IN TAKING A DIFFERENT VIEW AND WITH NEW PARTNERS
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JOIN ME IN TAKING A DIFFERENT VIEW AND WITH NEW PARTNERS
JOIN ME IN TAKING A DIFFERENT VIEW AND WITH NEW PARTNERS
JOIN ME IN TAKING A DIFFERENT VIEW AND WITH NEW PARTNERS

Hold on to your drawers.

Going through some old things in a "JUNK HEAP," I found this drawer and old candy shipment boxes. I got the idea to do a collage in a drawer; while using the drawer as the frame.
This project is unfinished. I will post an update when it is.
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"FLEA MARKET FLIP," has been an inspiration for me. Below is another
attempt at flipping.
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Here is a drawing of a friend
I wad afraid to show her. I thought she might think it less than flattering. Here is where esteem gets in the way of accomplishing things you dream you could of, would of and might have.
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Plus, let me share a few more of my art attempts.
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Summer brings me to a list of "Flip" projects I plan on jumping on soon.
*******I see the creation of art and "flipping" or reinventing as a gate to setting up businesses that fit special needs, autism and such.  These groups,  often, in my eyes, with an innate sense of creativity, bring about options that others muss because it isn't obvious to them.
If you have insights, information or feedback (negative or positive, plz state in a positive manner, skipping tacky) you wish to share or comment; I look forward to it! I really see growing from this as an opportunity instead of dumping on my feelings.  I already shared am example of letting my feelings keep me from this an enjoying new areas of life.