Today was our appointment
with Allison from LiveWorkPlay. This is Jessie’s Takeover (I wrote “take on it”
but she changed it, fittingly, to “takeover.”)
Today at 1:00 in the
afternoon, I had a meeting with Live Work Play’s Allison Moores. Allison talked
a little bit about what LiveWorkPlay is and then we moved on and talked about
my goals and dreams for my life now and for my future. My main goal and dream
that we had talked about was moving out into a supported living setting where I
would live with my friends. And through
that she had told my mom and I about how Live Work Play would help me and my
family to help carry out the supports to help me achieve that goal. It was
really fun and I really loved it. I’m finally really excited about what’s
happening.
So. We get to move forward
with a bit more support. A chance for me to back off and for a
mentor/advisor/person to step in and work a couple of hours a week with Jessie,
setting goals based on her dreams and helping her find the supports and
strategies to be able to move forward. That means its someone else who gets to
help her delve into the world of making choices, setting goals, and following
through. That’s a big sigh of relief (for me) and a huge vibrating grin (for
Jessie).
Relief for me, because I feel
like a load is being shared, and while Jessie has a good rich and active life
right now, there are areas that need to be explored further (education, career,
a home) and I’m just not the right person to direct and drive it.
A huge vibrating grin for
Jessie, because she gets to share her vision with someone who won’t roll their
eyes when she sets her long-term living goals as moving to California with her
boyfriend so he can pursue his wrestling star dream and she her acting dream.
Someone, she likes to say, who is her personal assistant. Well, we’ll see how
that works.
But, we have all agreed that
the goal will be moving out (target=before she’s 25) and that the focus will be
on all those things that will help her achieve that goal (anything from organizational
skills and meeting and talking with people who have moved out and are living
with friends or on their own, to researching areas in the city to live and budgeting).
We will meet again next week
and Allison will bring Lisa, the person who will be supporting Jessie. In the
meantime, we fill out forms, brainstorm more ideas and questions, and step back
for a moment to breath and give thanks.
So. LWP (LiveWorkPlay) is PDG
(prettydamnedgood). It is a work in progress, but with LWP I’m feeling a bit
more hopeful about the progress!
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