FROM BECKY: This is the second part of a series of blogs about getting, training and keeping volunteers for your Son-Rise program. Screening prospective volunteers for your program is one of the most effective ways to recruit and keep the kind of team that you want for your program. Here are some helpful ideas about…
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FROM BECKY: My next series of blogs are going to be about volunteers for your Son-Rise Program. I would also love to get your input on ways that have been successful for your programs in finding and keeping the team that you want. Here are some ideas that you can use when implementing volunteers in…
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FROM SIMONE: I am training a new volunteer and when doing feedback before I started to comment on my notes I asked the customary question: “How did you feel today?” She then asked me why we always ask this question and when I explained it to her it was great to give me a perspective…
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FROM GABY: We just had the most amazing experience. When the first volunteer came to play, I went out to jog. Upon returning home, the volunteer opened the door and told me I had better go upstairs because Tybalt was crying, they had had an argument. I went upstairs and found Tybalt sitting on a…
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FROM SIMONE: When I was discussing in my last blog about the preoccupation Parents have with how long their Program is going to take or how old their child is, the race against the clock, I also remembered another great preoccupation Parents normally have: Volunteers. I’ve seen many Parents quit doing their Son-Rise Program because…
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Good Morning Everyone!I would like to share with you a bit of history I found while tidying my office yesterday.It is our program Goals dated “01/12/1998” from our Son-Rise Program with Jade Hogan, who is my God Child, and the daughter of William and Bryn Hogan, two senior teachers here At The Autism Treatment Center…
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We are currently in the process of creating a video presentation of the Volunteer talk from the Start-Up program. When completed it will be put up on our ATCA website for families, who have attended the Start-Up, to re-watch and be reminded about “why to get volunteers?”, “How to get them?”, “Screening potential volunteers”, etc.…
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An introduction to our life and how Riley with Autism and The Son-Rise Program changed it all!This is an answer to a friends questions who is writing a research paper for college. I thought it might be a good place to start; tell the story. Q1. What was life like for Riley prior to the…
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Hullo wonderful Son-Rise friends! Volunteers – they may not make the world go round, but they sure can make the ride an awful lot easier, especially when they’re helping you carry along your special kid! I have spoken to many parents who are SO grateful to their volunteers for assisting in their Son-Rise Programs, and…
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Today I would like to celebrate one of my best friends. A gorgeous five year old boy who I volunteer with every week. I would like to celebrate him for the huge strides he has made recently. His family have been doing The Son-Rise Program with him for about three years. During that time I…
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