Everyone defines success in different ways. The aim of this site is to provide a place for people who work in and/or receive human service assistance to gain skills and information to better navigate the dense and difficult to understand state and federally funded services that are available. Everyone is different in their strengths, needs and goals in life. Usually no direct road map is available for anyone to follow to make the achievements in life that they want. However, we are all in this thing together and more times than not, someone has accomplished the exact thing that you or the person you are advocating for is hoping to accomplish. How do you set up a Life Plan Trust? How do you write a PASS plan, start a micro-enterprise?
The demands of people who work in social services is severe. We work long hours and make very little money, but we love what we do, right?
What better way to make it more efficient than to post our experiences for others to learn from? For everything you post, you are sure to find the answer to several other items you were hoping to find. Please, start a thread here and open up the lines of communication which we all so desperately need in order to increase the quality of life for someone we care about....and please be respectful of confidentiality. No names, letters, record numbers, etc.