OT: Vent about my job...

[JCTigger]

I work in an adult day hab program I love every single minute of it..I've actually taken on 2 PCA jobs with consumers that I work with (one is a disney freak like me ) but the other day something happened that just made me hate people... We have this wonderful young women in our program who lives in a residential home and once a week goes to her parents house for the evening and they bring her to "school" the next morning...well it came that day when it was time to go to her folks house but the van she normally takes home had broken down and the only spare van we had was a wheelchair van so loaded up the van and off they went... well the next day when her mom brought her in she went in and spoke to my boss and also the transporation cordinator about how it was not right for them to use a wheel chair van to bring her daughter to the house because what would the neighbors think if they saw it in the driveway...they hate the fact that they have a disabled child and have pretty much written her off as unteachable which is totally not true she is a very bright young women who's vocab has expanded so very much in the past few months that its unbelievable..most parents embrace thier child with a disablitity these folks just want to ignore it and not let the socail class that they hang out in know that they have this beautiful and intelligent disabled women as a daughter it hurts my heart to know this... the highlight of this young womens week is the day she gets to go home she was put in residential as soon as she was old enough and im sure if institutions were still around she would have been placed in one when she was younger.... it just really makes me sad to know that a parent can feel that way about thier own child....

Sorry about the rant i just had no where else to let this out....

Jill

 

[Snow Brite]

I just wanted to say how glad I am she has YOU in her life.

 

[Hedy]

That's beyond words.
ITA with the poster, so glad she has good people in her life.

 

[Forevryoung]

I sort of know how frustrating and sad it is... I worked as a teacher's aide at a private school for children with severe developmental disabilities (autism, ED, Downs mostly). There was a residential program upstairs that housed 25 children.

Some of the parents of the residential children came to visit weekly, some parents came every few weeks and I know of a few that came once or twice a YEAR. One of the nonverbal residential children in particular his parents have nothing to do with him because they are "brilliant scientists" and are embarrassed to have a child with severe autism (and they mailed him a present on his birthday that was developmentally inappropriate).

The teachers and staff were these children's families. We provided what they needed even though there was little hope that many of them would ever leave such a facility.

 

[seashoreCM]

For retorting only: "When we ride in the wheelchair van we don't have to put money in parking meters."

When I was in junior high school my science teacher drove a pickup to school. Now this was way back when during a time few people let alone women drove pickups and the terms SUV and WDW hadn't been invented. One day she drove a tractor to school because her pickup was in the shop. I didn't see what kind of tractor (farm? semitrailer?) it was, just heard classmates snickering about it.

Disney hints:
http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr.disney.htm

 

[tacomaranch]

We need to make sure that our prayers go the these parents so that may see the joy in their children that we do in ours. Prayers! Sorry, it is sad.

April

PS: Hunter just loves the pink bounce.