Discover how PDX Mobile Music Entertainment enhances our community dances by generously donating their expert DJ services to Griffin's Place events. Join us in celebrating this vibrant partnership that brings music, dance, and joy to our inclusive community gatherings. Get involved and experience the magic at our next event!
Discover the benefits of Grammarly for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Learn how this tool enhances everyday communication for I/DD individuals, their families, and caregivers, with insights into its free and premium features.
Unlocking Daily Productivity for Individuals with I/DD: Discover Goblin.tools
Goblin.tools offers an innovative approach to managing daily tasks for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). Through AI-powered tools like Magic ToDo and Estimator, it simplifies complex activities into manageable steps, enhancing productivity and reducing stress. Whether planning meals with Chef or streamlining communication through Formalizer, Goblin.tools empowers users and caregivers by providing practical solutions tailored to the unique needs of the I/DD community. Explore how this versatile platform can transform daily challenges into opportunities for success.
The vision of the National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals (NADSP) is a world with a highly qualified and professional direct support workforce that partners with, supports, and empowers people with disabilities to lead a life of their choosing. NADSP works to elevate the status of direct support professionals by improving practice standards, promoting system reform, and advancing their knowledge, skills and values, through certification, credentialing, training, professional development, and accreditation services.
As a caregiver, you may have heard of your family member’s emotional or sensory discomfort as dysregulation. It is not often talked about how every person can become dysregulated. It is important to know that having emotional or sensory regulation is not being calm, cool, or at ease all of the time.
Compassion fatigue is a form of burnout that comes from caring for the needs of family members, loved ones, and pets. Feelings such as empathy and warmheartedness are emotional parts of human nature. The act of caring for other people is often balanced with a deep understanding for another person’s stress, illness, or pain.
There are a few really easy ways to help Griffin’s Place raise extra funds so we can continue to host really great events and work towards our goal of having a physical space for the community to use as a resource.
Discrimination does not always mean that a person is intentionally being cruel or dismissive, they simply may feel nervous or scared about doing the “correct” thing, based on their assumptions, and doing things that can leave a person with a disability feeling ignored or worse.
Although huge changes in policy have happened in the last 25 years, there is still a disconnect between what is legally required to support and accommodate people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and what communities actually provide.
Intellectual disability is a disability characterized by significant limitations both in intellectual functioning (reasoning, learning, problem-solving) and in adaptive behavior, which covers a range of everyday social and practical skills.
Discover how PDX Mobile Music Entertainment enhances our community dances by generously donating their expert DJ services to Griffin's Place events. Join us in celebrating this vibrant partnership that brings music, dance, and joy to our inclusive community gatherings. Get involved and experience the magic at our next event!
Discover the benefits of Grammarly for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Learn how this tool enhances everyday communication for I/DD individuals, their families, and caregivers, with insights into its free and premium features.
Unlocking Daily Productivity for Individuals with I/DD: Discover Goblin.tools
Goblin.tools offers an innovative approach to managing daily tasks for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). Through AI-powered tools like Magic ToDo and Estimator, it simplifies complex activities into manageable steps, enhancing productivity and reducing stress. Whether planning meals with Chef or streamlining communication through Formalizer, Goblin.tools empowers users and caregivers by providing practical solutions tailored to the unique needs of the I/DD community. Explore how this versatile platform can transform daily challenges into opportunities for success.
The vision of the National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals (NADSP) is a world with a highly qualified and professional direct support workforce that partners with, supports, and empowers people with disabilities to lead a life of their choosing. NADSP works to elevate the status of direct support professionals by improving practice standards, promoting system reform, and advancing their knowledge, skills and values, through certification, credentialing, training, professional development, and accreditation services.
"As an individual providing services to adults with developmental disabilities, you are a Mandatory Reporter according to Oregon law (ORS 430.765)."
As a caregiver, you may have heard of your family member’s emotional or sensory discomfort as dysregulation. It is not often talked about how every person can become dysregulated. It is important to know that having emotional or sensory regulation is not being calm, cool, or at ease all of the time.
Compassion fatigue is a form of burnout that comes from caring for the needs of family members, loved ones, and pets. Feelings such as empathy and warmheartedness are emotional parts of human nature. The act of caring for other people is often balanced with a deep understanding for another person’s stress, illness, or pain.
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December 14th from 5:30pm-6:30pm
Join us at the Hillsboro Hidden Creek Community Center for an evening of fun with friends as we decorate holiday cookie cookies and crafts.
December 20th from 3:30pm-5pm
Join us at the St. Helens Recreation Center for a fun-filled Holiday Sweater Party with crafts, cocoa, santa, games, and more!
Here are 6 GREAT reasons why you should take a dance class!
There are a few really easy ways to help Griffin’s Place raise extra funds so we can continue to host really great events and work towards our goal of having a physical space for the community to use as a resource.
Discrimination does not always mean that a person is intentionally being cruel or dismissive, they simply may feel nervous or scared about doing the “correct” thing, based on their assumptions, and doing things that can leave a person with a disability feeling ignored or worse.
Although huge changes in policy have happened in the last 25 years, there is still a disconnect between what is legally required to support and accommodate people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and what communities actually provide.
Intellectual disability is a disability characterized by significant limitations both in intellectual functioning (reasoning, learning, problem-solving) and in adaptive behavior, which covers a range of everyday social and practical skills.