So, I think I mentioned a couple blogs ago that I have started going to a Life Skills Program. I think it's called the Community Living Program. Two ladies started it up this year at one of the churches in town. This program is for children with disabilities to get out the house, do some fun activities with peers, and learn some good life skills. I have an aid in the summer, Patti, that does stuff with me for 8 hours a week. This program goes all year round though, for an hour an a half every Wednesday . Anyway, there are two ladies that run the program, and there are two more children besides me as well, both have Autism and the one boy has Cerebral Palsy like me, as well as Autism too. I know them both from school so that's nice The two helpers, before the program started, went to every family and asked what each child's needs were and stuff they really like. I liked that. They really tried to get to know me and tried to make the program so we can do stuff that I would enjoy. We started the actual program about a week or so after that. There is a big garden outside the church, so our first big project was to plant a garden. We went to our local hardware store and bought some plants and seeds. The next week we started planting. Two of us are in wheelchairs so we got this raised garden beds that our chairs could roll up . We thought that was a pretty efficient way to garden. There is a big garden, like I said, but it's full of grass right now. We're going to get someone to cut it down so we can go in their with our wheelchairs. We are planning to make a big meal with some of the vegetables we grow, so were waiting to do that! We just had the program again today and we made Strawberry Rhubarb muffins. We have a big Rhubarb plant n the back that we made them with. The Rhubarb plants are huge. We got to pull them out of the ground. That was a challenge! One stick of Rubarbone of the helpers and I found was huge, so we showed it off to everybody! We had to make the muffins and clean up afterwards. The two helpers are great! They're very patient and want us to do as much as we possibly can. The other boy has to have a little bit more help with some things than I do, but they were really trying to get him to do a good deal of the work, witch was great! There hasn't really been a program like this before. It''s just another fun thing for us to do, and we get to spend time with some different people.
It's really great for me, especially in the summer and time when there is no school because my parents work quite a bit and I don't always have something I can do when I'm home so once again, this program always gives me something to do every week. I'm glad this program started up. Our little town of Invermere doesn't have a lot of children with disabilities, so there aren't too many services. It's great this has started up for us and will hopefully lead to more awareness of disabilities and to more programs starting up. I hope it keeps going for a long time. This blog is a bit shorter than my blogs usually are but I just wanted to talk about the program, and promote it a bit. We hope to do some fundraisers to raise money for different things we can do.
The more services like this out there for people like us to have fun and learn along the way, thebetter!
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