What does "winning" mean to you???

Using contracts to create behavioral boundaries in the community...ahead of time. Are you a Support Staff for the Developmentally Disabled, wanting to fulfill a client's wishes and take them somewhere in the community? Of course. BUT...if this person has a habit of changing plans mid-trip, or re-writing the narrative about what was agreed upon, AND has potentially challenging behaviors...you're concerned about what could happen if things manifest in the vehicle in a way that

Being a Support Staff for the Developmentally Disabled community can be a fantastic way of life - but it can also be very challenging. In the residential environment, this job involves a deep level of care, a care so internal that the pay and the hours can be shrugged off - but how? It seems that depression and eroding personal health are elements that surface all too often for the soldiers serving "in the trenches", as I like to call it. The main struggles we face in this fi