Sounds like a great one and very relevant to the work. If you want some one to review once you have your first draft I would be happy to help.

me too!

@Porsche Trombley love it, in my district that role was taken by a large state wide PBIS grant and they were pretty protective of that scope, it’s where I really wanted to go too! What recommendations do you have for people that want to do that work but are not sure where to start?

@Lorraine Petrizzo that is very sad to hear that it is going backwards in the school setting. My fear when I started in schools back in 2010 was that the support would become further reduced to crisis intervention or at best proactive decelerative target based interventions. Hope you can find some moments of entry to do that work you loved still!

Our approach is not too different from the one in the article although there is some nuance I think that article missed and it comes from some other fields than ABA. One area I think that is super important is the conceptual formulation of "Serious Leisure", this is a phrase that captures the intensity of leisure that moves beyond, "things that fill time". Full article: Serious leisure and people with intellectual disabilities: benefits and opportunities , I think this one is really good on some of the variables to consider that can expand on the article posted above! I will have to dig through some old folders to find some of my other favorites, but if there is a single conceptual approach to leisure that shaped how I think about it and where we may go wrong, this one probably holds the most space for me. We had a socialization and leisure program for adults for 7 years and some of the most challenging things was moving from schedule fillers to meaningfully engaged prolonged leisure that comes with-recognition, global skill development, meaningful social communities, purpose extended over time- etc. In our program we landed on a blend of types of offerings that accomplished experiential exposure to various types and opportunities to move in to "serious".

Sounds like awesome summer plans to me! I have a bit of experience designing community based programs and functional living programming for group programs, so if you want to bounce idea’s off of any one feel free to reach out!