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Recruitment Campaign As we celebrate FREEDOM this month, I want to remind the people Fairfield DD supports, and their families, of their rights. Embrace them. Memorize them. Live them. You have the right to: Be treated nicely at all times and as a person. Have a clean safe place to live in and a place to be alone. Have food that is good for you. Be able to go, if you want, to any church, temple, mosque. Be able to go to a doctor or dentist when you are sick. Be able to have people help you with the way you walk, talk, do things with your hands, act or feel, if you need it. Be able to have people help and teach you, if you want. Be able to have time and a place to go to be by yourself. Be able to call, write letters or talk to anyone you want about anything you want. Be able to have your own things and be able to use them. Be able to have men and women as friends. Be able to join in activities and do things that will help you grow to be the best person you can be. Be able to work and make money. Be treated like everyone else. Not be hit, yelled at, cursed at, or called names that hurt you. Be able to learn new things, make friends, have activities to do, and go out in your community. Be able to tell people what you want and be part of making plans or decisions about your life. Be able to ask someone you want to help you, let others know how you feel or what you want. Be able to use your money to pay for things you need and want with help, if you need it. Be able to say yes or no before people talk about what you do at work or home or look at your file. Be able to complain or ask for changes if you don’t like something without being afraid of getting in trouble. Not be given medicine that you don’t need or held down if you are not hurting yourself or others. Vote and learn about laws and your community. Say yes or no to being part of a study or experiment Celebrate YOUR Freedom— John Pekar, Superintendent The Ohio Provider Resource Association has launched a campaign and recruitment effort -- DSPOhio -- to address a critical need for more direct service providers (DSP) in the developmental disabilities field. The new career site seeks to fill some of the thousands of open DSP positions. "The jobs could be working in a family's home, helping that family support their son or daughter at home," DODD Director John Martin told Good Day Columbus recently. "It could be in a small group home, or it could be in a large facility," he said. "We have lots of different opportunities around the state for jobs in this particular industry." For information, visit http://www.dspohio.org. DODD Youth Respite Grants The Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities has awarded grant funding to eight collaborative projects for youth respite support. Counties include Belmont, Harrison and Noble; Clermont and Hamilton; Coshocton and Knox; Licking, Fairfield and Perry; Stark; Summit; Trumbull; and Tuscarawas and Carroll. While the department has partnered with sister agencies on various initiatives to support youth served by multiple systems and their families, respite opportunities continue to be elusive and needed, especially for families with a child with both developmental disabilities and significant behavioral challenges. In January <strong>2018</strong>, the department issued a request for proposal for planned respite and in-home supports for youth with complex needs. County boards of developmental disabilities and local Family and Children First councils supporting youth with complex needs struggle to find the necessary supports, including planned, therapeutic respite. The department sought proposals to increase the capacity for and utilization of planned, therapeutic respite and intensive in-home supports to prevent or reduce out-of-home placements, prepare for successful return to home of youth in out-of-home treatment, and improve outcomes for youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities and significant behavioral challenges and their families. The department will work with project partners to monitor outcomes of participating youth and families to identify strengths, challenges, and sustainability of the collaborative projects.
Community Pool Pass Available Lancaster Parks and Recreation has teamed up with Lancaster Kiwanis, Friends of the Parks and 2-1-1 again this year to offer free pool passes to Miller Pool on Memorial Drive. Passes are available on a first-come, first-serve basis at the Fairfield County 2-1-1 office at 108 W. Main Street. All of the agencies involved have donated money to make this program possible. Each pass enables the holder to visit Miller Pool five times and are completely free. A parent or guardian is required to obtain the passes and a 2016- 17 year-end report card is required, as well as verification of income for the past three months. For information contact the 2-1-1 office between the hours of 9 am and 3 pm, Monday through Friday. Heat Relief Community Action’s Summer Crisis Program will be available through August 31st for income-eligible clients ages 60 years or older, or with a note from a doctor indicating a medical condition which creates a need for electric service and/or an air conditioner, and/or a fan. Individuals may be eligible for a monetary benefit, air conditioner, fan or central air conditioner repair. People receiving an air conditioner or fan in 2015—2017 will not be eligible for an additional device but may be eligible to have an electric bill paid. A meeting with a case worker is required and can be arranged through an appointment or by simply visiting Community Action. Quite an Honor Art and Clay’s Artist in Residence Brandon Muck recently had the opportunity to show his work at a DODD Event which featured artists who have reached a professional status. The event, held in downtown Columbus, gave Brandon the opportunity to meet other artists, as well as to have a conversation with DODD Director John Martin, pictured here with Brandon. It’s always exciting to watch Brandon take his artistic accomplishments to the next level! Congratulations to Dustin Barkley who graduated from Forest Rose School last month! After walking to the stage to the tune Happy, Dustin was joined on stage by Commissioner Dave Levacy, Superintendent John Pekar, Board President Mark Weedy and Director of Education Jodi Blais, along with all of his schoolmates and family and friends. Best wishes in your next chapter!
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