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BEING YOUR OWN BOSS

SELF DETERMINED SUPPORTS. BEING YOUR OWN BOSS. Being Your Own Boss. Hire Your Own Workers. Manage Your Schedule. Self-Advocacy. Being Your Own Boss. Stay In Your Home. Empowerment. Independence. Being Your Own Boss. Hire your own workers. Where to find Personal Care Workers?.

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BEING YOUR OWN BOSS

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  1. SELF DETERMINED SUPPORTS BEING YOUR OWN BOSS Tami J. Weber & Phillip Corona

  2. Being Your Own Boss • Hire Your Own Workers • Manage Your Schedule • Self-Advocacy Tami J. Weber & Phillip Corona

  3. Being Your Own Boss • Stay In Your Home • Empowerment • Independence Tami J. Weber & Phillip Corona

  4. Being Your Own Boss • Hire your own workers Where to find Personal Care Workers? • Immediate Surroundings • Family & Friends • Church • Community Tami J. Weber & Phillip Corona

  5. Being Your Own Boss • Hire your own workers' Where to find Personal Care Workers? • Advertise • Newspapers • Signs • Internet Ads • Job boards--Tech Schools, • Universities, etc… Tami J. Weber & Phillip Corona

  6. Being Your Own Boss • Hire your own workers' Where to find Personal Care Workers? • Employment Boards • Ex: Consumer Direct • CIL • Center for Independent Living • ADRC • Aging & Disability Resource Center Tami J. Weber & Phillip Corona

  7. Being Your Own Boss • Manage your own schedule • Work schedule like jigsaw • puzzle • PCW burnout rate high…try • not to over schedule • Always “try” to employ 1 extra • person…almost as “on-call” • status Tami J. Weber & Phillip Corona

  8. Being Your Own Boss • Manage your own schedule • Schedule holidays & weekends • equally and fairly • Keep schedule consistent… • day-to-day week-to-week • Be flexible… • Keep sheet available for special • scheduling requests…i.e. days • off, time changes, etc. Tami J. Weber & Phillip Corona

  9. Being Your Own Boss 08/28/09 4:25 p.m. Tami J. Weber & Phillip Corona

  10. Being Your Own Boss • Manage your own schedule • Remember…workers have • access to everything in your • home • Money • Medications • Mail -- Social Security Number Tami J. Weber & Phillip Corona

  11. Being Your Own Boss • self-advocacy • Control & A Voice • Having the power to make our • own decisions concerning the day-to-day matters that most people take for granted • Where to live • When/What to eat • When to go to bed/get up Tami J. Weber & Phillip Corona

  12. Being Your Own Boss • self-advocacy • Control & A Voice • Social outings • Being active in the community • Privacy…you choose (Not an • agency) who is taking care of you • physically—bathing, dressing, • grooming Tami J. Weber & Phillip Corona

  13. Being Your Own Boss • Stay In Your Home • No Home Health Services • Increased privacy • You set the rules • No asking for permission from • a nurse or supervisor to change • schedule • Initiating own care Tami J. Weber & Phillip Corona

  14. Being Your Own Boss • Stay In Your Home • Non-Institutionalized setting • Stay in your own environment • Happier • Physically healthier Tami J. Weber & Phillip Corona

  15. Being Your Own Boss • Empowerment • Sense of Achievement • Success • Self-confident in abilities • Self motivation Tami J. Weber & Phillip Corona

  16. Being Your Own Boss • Independence • Self discipline • Leader • Increased sense of being an • equal member of society Tami J. Weber & Phillip Corona

  17. Being Your Own Boss Taking additional responsibility for one’s own life gives people a stronger sense of purpose. Thus, individuals tend to be more medically compliant, with an increased drive to be independent, and have a renewed positive outlook. Tami J. Weber & Phillip Corona

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