At the Community Summit in Wenatchee, Washington, hundreds gathered to personify this year’s conference motto: cultivate potential. Nearly every kind of person showed up—client and direst support professionals alike. The atmosphere of every room was that of love and acceptance, and every face had a smile. With a variety of conferences, unique speakers, and a unified [...]
The TV is quiet. You can barely hear it, but for him, it blares. It booms and echoes and screeches and nearly tears off his ears. Ants can crawl across his skin and rip at his flesh. When he looks at you, you seem concerned, but he can't tell; your face is a blank slate to [...]
Alcohol use, during any stage of a pregnancy, can be extremely harmful to the child. To the surprise of some, this includes even the earliest stages of pregnancy, when a mother might not even know! By consuming alcohol during a pregnancy, the baby has a chance of developing conditions that fall into scale of fetal alcohol [...]
The last blog post described the legal problems regarding and the steps toward providing better services to DD/ID individuals with a history of sexually inappropriate behaviors. This post will explain more thoroughly what PRS and ARMIDILO-S is, who created these, and how they influence Reside. As a habilitative program, Reside Residential Care's program, indeed, stems from [...]
Reside Residential Care was established to provide habilitative services—that is, to teach independent living and social skills—to Developmentally and Intellectually Disabled adults. We focus strongly on what people are capable of, building confidence, and enhancing and adding to the skills that our clients have. Of course, the individuals we support vary greatly from person to person. [...]
Depression is very much a real struggle for many people. What many people fail to understand is that depression is not simply feeling sad or down, it's a mental disorder that can be broken down and separated into different categories. Last week, I talked about Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and the effects it had on individuals [...]
What comes with changing seasons? Well, with Spring comes the blooming of flowers and a sense of renewal, Summer, heat and a reminder of how badly one wants to go on a vacation, Fall, colored leaves and brisk morning air, and Winter, both calming and exciting colds and Seasonal Affective Disorder. Yes, Winter brings a bitter [...]
For just a moment, I want you to close your eyes and imagine a person walking down the street. This person stands tall. This person look forward, scanning everything that lies in his path, while still having a determined look. This person has a slight grin smeared across his face, and even though he's not walking—more [...]