From Yesterday to Today

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From Yesterday to Today

• The impact on life

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Traditional Services Traditional Lives

• Services Develop for Variety of Reasons trend
  of the time parents, funding, board goal
• Humanitarian Goals
• Systemization of Services
• Organizations become Ensconced in Formalized
  Programs
• Professional Growth Accountability
• Initial Benefits May Fade
• Funding/Rules May Take Precedent
• Dysfunctional Practices May become Normalized
• Industrial-like System
• People served become the Raw Material to Fuel the
  Human Service Wheel
• Progressiveness in the Past becomes Antiquated .

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The Impact of Services on Marks Life

• Institutionalized for most of his life
• Stereotyped for disability
• Seen as severely autistic
• Non communicative
• Behaviorally challenging
• Living with no positive role models
• Torn from his family
• Torn for a normal neighborhood, normal life
• Trapped in his own body with no help to get out
• Had no voice or say in his life
• Self defeating circle of perpetual client hood.

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Historically people seen as less then normal
have been

• Institutionalized
• Incarcerated
• Managed
• Medicated
• Controlled
• Victimized
• Demoralized
• Clientized
• Misunderstood
• Lost their personhood
• Lost their feeling of self respect and honor
• Lost hope
• Trapped in a system.

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Impact

• System centered routinized days
• Loss of value and honor
• Lack of honest relationships
• Lack of positive role models
• Lack of positive social image
• Meaningless existence, meaningless life
• Hopelessness.

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When People are Seen for Their Human Potential -
Services Can Change

• A persons human potential needs to be
  appreciated correctly in order to develop
• Presumed competence
• Negative social images and behavioral problems
  require deeper understanding
• Proactive versus Reactionary Services
• System Centered versus Individually Centered
• As new social images and human potential are
  recognized and supported life begins to change
• Communication, choices, personhood
• As human potential is recognized your walk with a
  person changes and different theories, methods or
  models begin to develop
• As your walk with the person changes and the new
  method and theory is sound then the advancement
  of human development and a better system of
  support will follow.

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M

• Today
• Has found a voice
• Intelligent man
• Communicates with conversation about facts,
  feelings, and desires
• Reads, writes, finishing GED
• Taking college classes
• Honest relationships
• Friend, son, nephew, uncle
• Respected, valued
• His autism challenges himself and those around
  him
• Lives with hope and vision for his life.

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K

• Was seen as a menace to society
• Was locked and put away
• Was surrounded by services that did not meet his
  needs
• Reactions was misunderstood
• Seen as a disable client and not a man
• Now
• community life
• home with people he values
• long term relationships
• long term employment
• now everybody knows his name!

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Micro Enterprises

• Example 1
• Own wood working business
• Own store front
• Not funded by typical vocational funding stream
• Asking for a finding the right support person a
  skilled carpenter, an artist
• Business generates money for supplies
• Family and support person have come together with
  sharedequipment

• Example 2
• Person seen as severely disabled
• Mom begins to think what can he do?
• He can walk. He can carry.
• How can that be translated into a vocation?
• He becomes a mail currier
• He has a support person/driver
• He is well known for his work and has more
  businesses that he can take on

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Micro Enterprises

• Example 3
• Person seen as limited in ability
• Utilizes a wheel chair, has limited physical
  coordination skills
• He loves sports
• He now has a stand that he sells bottles of water
• He sets up at sporting events
• He sets up costs so that change is minimized
• He is known as the water man at many events

• Summary
• People have been creative in thinking though each
  persons gifts and how to apply them creatively
  to a vocation
• Many people have start up expenses that are
  supported through grants, family or friend
  support
• Business have started slow and grown in identity
  there by increasing work load
• Business begin to support themselves financially
• Business all have a degree of family or staff
  support

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Addressment Of a Persons Fundamental Needs

• When ALL people are recognized as more alike than
  different, recognition of needs and the way
  services are set up will change
• Persons need areas versus system parameters
• Getting rid of preconceived ideas of how services
  are determined, or given
• Understanding needs in terms of the enrichment of
  life.

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The Most Fundamental Change a Service Provider
Can Make

• Listen
• Listen
• Listen
• When professionals make mistakes, the scars can
  last a life time. Matthew Whiting

• Open your mind and your heart
• Realize that normal life is within everyones
  grasp
• Honestly and Creatively plan
• Take action
• Keep a continual refocus with an eye on the
  compass!!! .

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I am Being Given Wings for My Dreams by M

• I want to say this is the happiest I have felt in
  a long time. Also, I cant believe that Im
  actually excited about the future. The actual
  thought of attending a university such as
  Syracuse is now a living reality. A bench mark of
  some sort I am here today. I am very pleased at
  all of the progress we have made. Eats a person
  up inside when options are few and far between. I
  am looking forward to the day when abroad I can
  live. I mean not abroad but more independently. I
  think some day, all the world will see we
  disabled have much more in common than
  differences.
• I want to complete my GED, see the world, and
  come to have a place of my own and my bachelors
  degree. I want a more active say in what I want
  and need. I am building for the future and I need
  consistency on all of your partsif I am to be
  successful in school or whatever else I pursue.

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CONTACT INFORMATION

• Website www.oclinc.org
• Email patfrat_at_oclinc.org
• Book One Person at a Time by Fratangelo, Olney
  and Lehr www.trninc.org
• Future Book Weaving the Spirit A Place to be
  Me
• Address Onondaga Community Living
• 518 James Street
• Syracuse, New York 13203 USA
• 315-434-9597 x 203
• 315-434-9367 (fax)