08/14/2025
We are excited to launch a monthly focus for our adult day program! This will allow dedication to focus on integral parts of increasing our skills.
Money Management: These months many of our outings will focus on money, budgeting, etc. Visits and tours might include banks, tax preparation, etc. Skills and classes will include budgeting and currency.
Household Basics: These months many of our outings will focus on how to care for a household. Visits and tours might include hotel housekeeping, grocery stores, post offices, etc. Skills and class will include household basics like making grocery lists, washing dishes, doing laundry, and making the bed.
Healthy Living: These months many of our outings will focus on physical and mental well-being. These might include hospitals, dentists, counseling centers, sports/fitness centers, and optometrists. Skills and class may include personal hygiene, self-care, what to expect at appointments, making appointments, etc.
Personal Growth: The outings of this month focus on continuation of growing as adults. This could be outings such as visiting colleges, technical school, continuing education classes, enrichment classes, community classes and more.
Emergency Response: Outings this month include police stations, fire stations, EMS, Red Cross, etc. Skills and class will include things like street safety, stranger danger, how to access emergency response services, what is an emergency, etc.
Creature Care: Outings for this month include veterinarians, pet groomers, humane society, DNR, wildlife rescue. Skills and class will include caring for a pet, working with domestic, farm and exotic animals, and wildlife vs. domesticated animals.
Travel: Outings for this will include bus (local and regional), public transportation, gas station, travel agency, hotel, restaurants. Skills and class include reading maps, how to get from place to place, how transportation operates, expectations of staying at a hotel, safe traveling, etc.
Recreation: These months will have outings focused on each season (winter/spring and summer/fall) and the types of recreation including sledding, ice sculpting, winter sports, beach going, hiking/trails, camping. Skills and classes will include how to access the recreation, how to schedule/book them if needed, how to do the activity, social skills involved in recreation and more.
We are really looking forward to this addition beginning in September. If you have any questions, please reach out!