Activities:

SUMMER AND FALL!!!!!
What to do with your clients??????

• Library for free and discounted passes to CT's museums and other interesting facilities.
• Visit a museum
• Your local Y or community center for inexpensive available swim time
• Find out your client's interests and volunteer once to twice per month with animals, at the local soup kitchen, with the elderly, or at a charity event
• There are many Summer and Fall events scheduled in the community for kids at local museums, schools and libraries.
• Parks, playgrounds, the beach to walk and explore nature.
• Send in ideas and I will post them to our PS KIDS blog

VISIT A LOCAL UNIVERSITY: Do you have a 15-18 year old client? Colleges are having tours consistently ----- Quinnipiac has after school ONE hour tours. This is a great way to open a dialogue about academics and how high school grades influence your future path into a college. It can also motivate a teen to attend college. 

JOB PREPARATION:  Do you have a teen who wants to work?  You can help with applications, correct dress for an interview, practice interview questions, discuss transportation, etc.  Please get parent or guardians permission prior to taking client out to look for a job.

THINK TWICE! Movies are a great rainy day experience BUT we must consider that movies might upset our referred children. We do not have a full history of what these children have experienced so do not want to expose them to anything that might be counterproductive ----- PS KIDS is recommending that you do not take your clients to a movie with content on abandonment, divorce, violence, homelessness, sickness, failures, crazy behavior, etc.  Also, watching a movie requires we focus solely on the movie and not on building a trusting relationship. THINK TWICE!!!

Do not take a client into your home!

Do not transport a client in  hazardous driving conditions. Reschedule your PS KIDS client services if it is pouring, snowing or icy and road conditions are questionable. SAFETY is our #1 priority!
 
Please call Diane Stahnke or Gretchen Elder if you have any questions.

Remember, keep current with requested credentialing documentation and hand in your payroll documentation on the 1st and 15th of each month to your team leader - Gretchen or Diane.