Preventing abuse, neglect, and exploitation in services The worker you liked last month is missing an hour of your daughter’s shift. Her jewelry is gone. She flinches when he touches...
Preparing law enforcement for safe encounters A stranger calls 911 because your autistic adult is rocking on a bench at the bus stop. What happens in the next four minutes...
Preparing for Your Own Hospitalization: The Caregiver Emergency No One Plans For You plan for every crisis your adult child might face. The one that keeps you up at night...
Post-secondary options: supportive college vs vocational training Four-year college? Two-year certificate? Vocational rehab? Apprenticeship? Family enterprise? Some of these will change his life. Some will cost you fifty thousand dollars...
Person-centered planning when there are no real options Sometimes the honest answer is that the county has nothing that fits. Person-centered planning does not require pretending otherwise. It requires writing...
Pain Assessment in Nonverbal Autistic Adults: When Behavior IS the Symptom A broken bone, a kidney stone, an abscessed tooth. None of them announce themselves with words in an adult...
Obtaining and Maintaining Identification Documents Every benefits application, every job opportunity, every bank account starts with a document most families assume is simple to get. For a Level 2/3 adult,...
Navigating Hospitals: Inpatient Stays When Your Autistic Adult Needs Surgery or Extended Care Caregivers consistently describe an inpatient hospital stay as among the worst experiences of their entire caregiving life....
Your rights under the Michigan Mental Health Code A psychiatric crisis strips away the illusion that you’re in control of anything. The Mental Health Code says you and your family...
When CMH says there are no crisis residential beds “No beds” is one of the most frightening sentences a family can hear during an active crisis. It is also, more...
