Thursday, February 26, 2004

With the Wind at our Back

Morning ... Won’t keep the suspense ... WE PASSED!!!

The day unfolded pretty good. We came in on time with our friend. We went straight to figurin out the Thinking Group. We knew Moral Reasoning would be good. We found an Internet site that gave us four scenarios and questions to ask as well. Can’t beat the Internet!

The group started promptly. About 15 minutes afterward the Sister, our friend and the Inspector came in. By then the group was very lively.  He stayed about 10 minutes.  After his tour of the building, he again came in to listen.

It had been a very good group and the clients were very animate. They were involved in role playing which they love.  He saw the one where one of the girls was told by her mother not to go to the rock concert, but she and her boyfriend snuck out, then later her sister found out and the sister had to figure out to tell or not to tell. We wanted their reasoning so kept asking/teasing, "Why?"  

While he was there ... the clients decided that it wasn’t wrong to sneak out because they really wanted to go (good stage two reasoning). We had great fun with that!  One of the individuals suggested there could have been an accident so we next role played out that with a motorcycle.

The State gives the Center before the Inspection about 20 pages of standard questions that could be asked.  Sister Tess is real good at documentation and the building is always tip-top shape.  

Our next part was getting through client files. He went through the files with a fine tooth comb. I was the last to talk to him.  He chose not to talk to the other staff or to the clients more directly.

After that, there was an exit meeting. The four of us on the Administration Team and him sat down.  Within a few moments he told us the scoring system and then he said, "Well, I had to give you 100%!"

Man-o-man ...couldn’t be more pleased than if he’d been the doctor to have delivered our baby! The best compliment though? He added, "this place is so cool even I want to come here!"

Oh-man-oh-man...

Picture - http://www.harley-davidson.com/en/home.asp?bmLocale=en_US

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yeaaaaaaaaaa!!! 100% !!!!! [course I knew it all along.]
Congratulations to all!!
Vince

Anonymous said...

Thank you Vince! :)

Anonymous said...

....and you were worried!!! I wasn't, I knew you would do great. Congratulations to you all. It is a well deserved grade of 100%. I would surely trust you will my family members. My Regards, Bill.

Anonymous said...

What a fabulous compliment!! And it DOES sound like you guys have fun there.

When I first saw the motorcycle, by the way, I thought you were going to say you bought one. tehehehe... I was like "No way!!!!" Then I imagined you on one. And yeah... it was DARN COOL!! :D

Anonymous said...

Aww, congratulations! I know how hard you've worked, you certainly deserve no less than a perfect score! I'm sure Sister Tess was very happy about that, too.