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Stormy Lake Weather

We had a storm on the lake this week. Tornado warnings, severe thunderstorm watch, that kind of thing. I don’t know if it is the weather, the fact that I am at a conference, or what, but David has been in full form. A storm of a different kind. Facebook. If you are on the friends’ list of anyone in the family, he likely sent you a facebook request. David is not allowed technology/Internet access. David has a history of threatening to kill people via facebook. Typically he does this via hacking into accounts of his siblings. Please let us know if he says anything to you. Wednesday. David left his established area. He went outside of the boundaries established for him. When mom got home from looking for him with the intention of calling the police and reporting him as a run away he was home. Later, a local

Wrap Around Services Explained

Wrap around services means we work with social services and the different agencies in our region. since we are between two major cities in our state, we go one direction for some services, and the other direction for the rest. It gets very confusing trying to get all of the different agencies to communicate with each other. I’ll build a glossary of terms, in the coming weeks. As a parent of a kid with mental illness, I sometimes take for granted that everyone knows what I am talking about. I imagine that it is like listening to a race car driver talk about turns, wedges and drifts, he may know what he is talking about, and his team knows what he means but no one else does. That is an assumption on my part that I will work to correct. The reason that wrap around services is

Embrace the abilities he does have

David came into our lives before we even considered adoption. In fact, we originally were going to do foster care for kids like David. This was long before we knew about the mental health issues that he has been diagnosed with. He was special needs because of the way he was born, addicted to drugs. And because of his race. He was special to us because he was loveable. He had a smile as bright as the sun and a ready laugh. We had an in home daycare at the time, and occasionally did day care for his foster family. If you look at pictures from his first birthday, we are there. Our whole family was. When our home study was completed, we were told that we were approved for adoption and shown a portfolio of children that were available in our state. Kids of all ages. We had been