SUFU Blog
When Your Goal Takes a Detour; Guest Post
Today's Guest Post is from Laurie Coldwell, Program Coordinator and Administrator. When your goal takes a detour. This week I am on vacation. I had great plans for this week. As many of you knew I had a goal. A goal a year in the making. Every time we talked about...
Career Exploration Workshop Series Continued
Stacy Smart, a member of the Springvale chapter of Speaking Up For Us, and also a member of the Maine Developmental Disabilities Council Board of Directors also participated in the Career Exploration Workshop. Today she shares with us her thoughts on this Workshop...
Career Exploration Workshop Series Continued
When I was in my Senior year of high school, I took a Job Exploration training. Everyone had to take it & it was new to me at the time. I was trying to understand it all at the time because it was new to me. It helped me on my job working at the Hotel in Virginia...
Career Exploration Workshop Series Continued
Georgia West is a member of our Caribou chapter. She is a member of the chapter rep committee and recently participated in the Career Exploration Workshop Series. I had worked on a resume years ago, in this series I learned what I needed to put on a...
Career Exploration Workshop Series Continued
Regina Bowie from Presque Isle joins us today on the blog as she shares her experience from participating in the Career Exploration Workshop Series. In celebration of my 48th birthday yesterday I thought to share my thoughts on the Voc rehab program. I am thankful...
Career Exploration Workshop
Some of our Self-Advocates recently participated in a Career Exploration Workshop series by Voc Rehab. The purpose of this was for them to some training, and to provide feedback to Voc Rehab on the material. We have asked our self-advocates to share their...
Poem from Sarah Trites
In this world of many colors, Take a look and you will see What beauty there is all around us A shining sea of diversity. In this world of many colors, We look through our prisms, What do we see? A world that struggles against hatred, A world that fights to be free....
Guest Post: Summer Fun from Chris Heywood
Chris Heywood is a member of our Springvale chapter and member of the Speaking Up For Us board of directors. Today he shares with us one of his favorite summer activities. “One of my favorite activities is to go fishing on Bauneg Beg Lake. This lake is in both Sanford...
CLEAN SLATE from Marco Orlando
CLEAN SLATE Marco Orlando One thing I can always appreciate about the pandemic is that it gave me a lot of time to think and reflect on things. Before COVID-19, I wasn’t always much fun to be around when I went out and did stuff, and I’m not proud of the kind of...
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