THIS MONTH’S ISSUE The View From My Chair
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Garden Center Family Spotlight
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Heard You Need a Will?
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Friends of Garden Center
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THE LEAFLET ISSUE JUL YEAR 2011
a message from our Executive director
The View From My Chair
Over 98% of the applicable standards comments the surveyors hear every day. met in the Community Integrated Living Please join me in applauding and thanking Program! 95% of the relevant standards for our wonderful staff for creating such a the Developmental Training Day Program caring place to work and play at. were fulfilled! These are the agency’s scores from the recently conducted As this newsletter goes to print, we are Annual Survey by the state’s Bureau of still unsure of our funding for the fiscal Accreditation, Licensure & Certification. year that begins Friday, July 1st. What is These marks are certainly something to certainly obvious is that disability providers take satisfaction with, will be heading into their 9th But the outcomes of given they demonstrate straight year with no Cost of our staffs’ ability to Doing Business increase, which the survey that I am interpret and apply the if you take into consideration most heartened by... direction contained in an annual 2.5% inflation rate, the Rules imposed by results in a 22.5% reduction in were the affirmative the regulatory bodies of funding over the last 9 years. the Illinois Department of This situation, in addition to statements made by Human Services. the uncertainty of our rates for both consumers and the coming year, have lead to But the outcomes of guardians about their decisions that are necessary to the survey that I am tighten our financial belt. I ask services and supports your understanding and support most heartened by, and which I believe to be for these decisions and any here at Garden. most important, were changes they create. the affirmative statements made by both consumers and guardians about their Certainly, your ongoing financial and moral services and supports here at Garden support is so appreciated during these Center. It was such pleasant experience times. As any of you have creative ideas to sit and listen to the surveyors share that could help the agency’s bottom line, comments about the responses they had do not hesitate to contact me. I want to received from their interviews. It was thank everybody that contributed to the obvious that statements like, “This agency recent Walk-A-Thon. It was a magnificent saved my brother”, “My staff really like to event and certainly a celebration of Garden hang out with me!”, or “ The worst days are Center Services. when the day program is closed”, were not
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OUR MISSION Garden Center Services is committed to supporting and empowering persons with developmental disabilities through innovative and person-centered services. Our commitment to the excellence of our programs is surpassed only by our devotion to the people we serve and the communities in which they live.
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