The Quiet Crisis Next Door

Tag: community safety

  • A Little Bit About Article 9…

    Much of my time feels like it’s not really my own right now- paid or unpaid- so I’m going to keep my words and explanations here as stripped down as possible.. A question could be posed after reading last week’s post: why would being a temporary direct care worker covering our son’s habilitation hours increase…

  • A Little Community Safety Creativity

    This summer has been serving up extra helpings of heat that just seem to keep coming. My patience has long past its fill of this weather, but these extra toasty temps just keep stretching up and on far higher than I want every time I look at the forecast. I have for many months felt…

  • Some Things Are More Important

    I am rarely at a loss for words to write or say. Our current local surge of COVID infections has left me wading through a dim bog of uncertainty. Far too many in our communities have lost loved ones, others are still battling for their health, and many people have lost their jobs…so I feel…

  • A Year of Gifts

    So much of the gift giving in our communities is concentrated and condensed into days of prescribed celebration. But some of the best presents have trickled in bit by bit this past year, oft ill-wrapped by other circumstances and generally unannounced by fanfare, tags, or cards. Perhaps they are small compared to what some would…

  • When a Full Day Off Isn’t One of Your Options…

    So, what happens in families such as ours when one of the parents gets sick? I’m going to quote part of an email I sent out April 23, 2017 to a group of friends: “Hello my sweet friends, I hope all of you are doing well! I’m slowly getting back to feeling normal. My cold…

  • Picturing Community Safety

    At the meeting place of Tony’s growth rate, his sensory differences, the profundity of his Autism, his intense impulsivity, and his heavily delayed risk assessment beats the heart of some of my deepest fears for our son’s future. We remain racing against time, have been engaged in every strategy we can think of for years…

  • Preventing Risk Assessment Horror Stories in the Car

    My friends and loved ones, I nearly sent out a notice today saying I was taking the next few weeks off so that I could focus on surviving the holidays. There has been so much going on, I’ve been fighting through seasonal allergies that brought the gift of mild sinus irritation… and I am just…

  • Public Therapy Give & Take Part 1

    For many months now we have been leaning into the blustery fury of one regulation storm after another for Tony. A year- an entire year- where we barely had time to gasp furtive lungfuls of calm before the next significant event plunged us into a wave of behavioral turmoil. Many points I had to fight…

  • Awareness is Our Every Day

    At the beginning of this month, I was opening up our front door around 5pm for the extremely patient Ms. C, who does ABA in the evenings with Tony three days a week. She opened the conversation with comments about Autism Awareness month, and I gave her what I know must have been an incredibly…

  • “You Have No Power Over Me”

    Originally, I had planned to discuss the sleep-related challenges Tony had during his early years in this week’s post.  But honestly, the last two posts- by nature of the circumstances laid bare- starkly avoided most anything approaching cheer and even I need a break from that. Often what we have here is not simply a…