Kittens and Mices

Let’s see, let’s see ... Need to remember what happened yesterday morning. Oh-oh ... I know. We umm got into a little editing situation. The secretary had given us back a beautiful seven page copy of an introduction to the Center's Program. It was doubly nice, because the secretary had done such a nice job on writing a Spanish version. But, I figured I could afford a "couple" changes.

Oh man, like three hours later ... Well, one could look at the new draft in two ways. For usability to the Center and beauty it was something to behold. To a secretary that had to be reading all the scribbles ... it might have been a living nightmare! Hehe, umm I think we got busted on this one ... the cat came back to see how the mice had played ... and just in time for an afternoon staff meeting. It seems Sr. Tess now knows about the project. With raised eyebrows she said, "we’ll talk about this later." *Sigh*

Otherwise, the staff meeting was really, really pretty cool. It was a one and a half hour meeting on CARF. Most of the staff haven’t heard really anything about CARF, except Sr. and I work on it alot.  After about 15 minutes of Sr. Tess talking ... in a surprise move, she just handed it over to us. It was like yeeks!

So, we started ... I was familiar with the handouts Sr had prepared (written them actually), so I followed the outline. The big point though was in going over the "outcomes." Sr. had spoken to the surveyor a couple of days previously and he hinted that the outcomes were one of his major points of concentration, but at this point ... not even Sr. Tess knew what our outcomes were. We knew. Written a 31 page report on them that had never really gotten exposure.

Mostly, Sr. Tess leaves developing programs up to us. So, I equated outcomes to documents available. It starts with our ICAP for adaptive and maladaptive behavior, then we added statistics from the 13 program areas and the individual goals the clients work on. Lastly, we summarized the Annual Reports.  We concluded with a discussion of the above. 

It had been a very good report and a pretty good presentation ... even the part with standard deviations.  We were having fun *silly grin* Pretty good day all told!  Even got treated out in the end to fajitas and margaritas!!

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