An advocate/mentor can help individuals:

• Understand the impact of a life transition and identify coping strategies.

• Determine if service providers are collaborating with one another, and if they are, is

  there a consensus reached among proposed treatment plans.

• Navigate the complex network of service providers and identify those that impact progress.

• Identify feasible, practical goals to obtain emotional, physical and spiritual balance.

• Identify personal strengths and discover possibilities.

• Identify career paths and education/training programs or explore alternative opportunities to current choices.

• Identify barriers/obstacles to goals and recommend strategies to overcome them.

• Create an individualized plan based on personal circumstances and opportunities.

• Take necessary action steps within a plan, monitor progress ,provide feedback, and make revisions based on progress and setbacks.

• Learn stress reduction techniques to assist with emotional regulation.

• Gather and endorse support from family and friends when practical.

• Learn consequences of inaction and accountability to family/community, supports with compassion and consideration of realistic barriers.

• Understand that perceived failures are merely a natural part of learning and progress.

Additional Services

Educational Consultation and Planning

Guidance and counseling is provided to locate the most appropriate schools, universities, or training programs at any age or stage of education (K-12, college, graduate school and beyond). An individualized, step-by-step educational plan can be tailored to meet the needs and monitor progress. The plan can include the identification of a school/training program to match an individual’s interests, need for community/family support, accommodations and suitable environment. If learning accommodations are needed, the mentor can complete the necessary assessment and advocate for the individual in school/college/university settings to ensure the implementation of recommendations. Vocational evaluations can be provided when an individual is uncertain of their aptitudes and interests.

Vocational Evaluation

Vocational Evaluation utilizes a systematic process of exploration and assessment to examine career potential and possibilities. Evaluators often review background information; gather pertinent information from the individual and/or family members; discuss current interests; assess aptitudes, interests, values, temperaments, work-related behavior; discuss independent living skills; explore physical and emotional capabilities; and identify soft-skill deficits or other barriers to employment. Career exploration, or the process of learning about variousoccupations and how particular jobs "fit" an individual’s skills and preferences, often follows formal testing. During this time, the evaluator assists an individual to examine labor market information and identify a career goal/path, training needs, accommodations and/or assistive technology to compensate for learning challenges.

Psycho-Educational Assessments

Psycho-educational Assessments provide information regarding an individual’s intellectual andacademic skills. It may also include tests of attention, emotional functioning and adaptive behavior. Strengths and weaknesses are determined to recommend learning strategies, accommodations and/or assistive technology to increase chances of success in an educational or vocational training setting.

Interventions

Psychological interventions are designed to foster healthy emotions, attitudes and habits. Individuals may have numerous health care providers, including a therapist, psychiatrist, primary care physician and nutritionist. Each provider may have a unique treatment plan to help understand and treat issues and conditions. As a routine part of the advocacy process, an‘Action Plan’ with identifiable goals and progress measures is devised. This plan incorporatestreatment recommendations from all other providers that will be reviewed for consistency. An intervention conducted by the mentor(s) may occasionally be necessary, especially when an individual needs help to regain the capacity to take action that previously seemed impossible due to irrational thoughts, emotional reasoning, cognitive distortions, fear of failure and/or self -sabotaging behavior/thoughts. The intervention consists of goals for change, a step-by-step action plan, consequences of inaction, and accountability to family/community supports.

Anxiety Management Techniques

Help clients understand root causes of their anxieties. Learn the role of the nervous system in processing anxiety and emotions. finding out how to calm the cortex and limbic system through mental and physical exercises.

Breathwork and Mindful Meditation

Breathwork and Mindful Meditation techniques are believed to benefit those experiencing emotional distress and chronic pain as they typically induce relaxation and improve self- awareness and mental, physical and spiritual health. Mindfulness is not really a concept, but an experience, a way of giving purposeful, nonjudgmental attention to the present moment

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