Goodbye Summer, Hello Fall

Life Skills is happy to be back in our classes and see all of our teachers and friends!!

Our Happy Places

This is how we define happy! 😃

Disneyland, Florida, Six Flags Amusement Park, Mare Island, Baseball Game, WW II Submarines in San Francisco, being at Life Skills, traveling out of state or around the Bay Area, WWE, Watching Barney and Lucy, taking a tour at local museums, Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, Great America, visiting the animals at the Oakland Zoo, going out for dinner with family and friends, learning how to be great self-advocates

Special Olympics is Worth the Fight!!

The President has proposed cuting billions from the federal education budget and reducing services for students and schools. Now, it's Congress's turn to make decisions about how much money to invest in education in FY 2020, and advocates must speak out. 

Please join our Life Skills Self-Advocacy class in telling Congress why it’s important to you that they fully fund the programs that provide students and educators with the supports and resources they need and use this action alert to help us increase funding for special education services, student support and academic enrichment programs, grants for teachers, and special education research.

TAKE ACTION
Use the form below to tell your Members of Congress: Support students and teachers by investing in public education.

https://takeaction.ncld.org/ncld/invest-in-public-education

Life Skills Dinner Dance 2018

Last week Life Skills students and families danced the night away with our favorite songs. We enjoyed a wonderful taco bar and cake for dessert.

Job Training at Kmart

 We are excited to be acquiring retail work skills in our job preparation class at Kmart. So far we have been learning about:

• organizing clothes by size
• folding T-shirts
• go-backs (returning merchandise back to store shelves)

Sarah says she likes folding the jeans and T-shirts. "It is my favorite place to go!"


Joey likes working at Kmart because "it's fun to sort clothes".

Happy Halloween!

 We had a lot of fun celebrating Halloween this week with a great costume contest and yummy treats to eat!!

This year's costume winners were:

Most Original - Jorden

Most Animated - Steven T.

Scariest Costume - Carlos

Best Princess - Erica and Rachel

Most Creative - Danielle

Cutest Costume - Sarah

Best Overall - Jenny

"America’s Workforce: Empowering All"

The Life Skills Program is proud to support National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM). Held each October, NDEAM strives to educate about disability employment issues and celebrate the contributions of America's workers with disabilities. Throughout this month, we have been learning about our disability employment rights and advocating for a disability-friendly work culture. Learn how you can support NDEAM by visiting the website: https://www.dol.gov/odep/topics/ndeam/.