Support Person/Friend at Marian Neely-Carlson/Community Support Services

  • Posted: 8/14/2008
  • Location: Greenwood Village, CO
  • URL: http://
  • Salary/Range: $15/hour
  • Hours: Part Time
Description:

Support person/friend for individual with cognitive delay special needs
Hourly Wage: $15 an hour
Phone: 303-618-4748
Parents of a great 24 year old young adult male with cognitive delay special needs looking for individual who is responsible, organized and calm, to spend time (friend, not caretaker) with our son doing educational and extracurricular activities. We prefer 1st year students or students that will have at least two years left at the Seminary. All facilitators hired to support our son are student’s from the Denver Seminary.

Our son loves doing activities such as: running track, bicycle riding, athletic events, riding the Light Rail, all types of music, being with his friends, attending concerts, going on hikes, attending reading and speech lessons. He takes guitar and keyboard lessons, along with karate and horseback riding; works at Jason’s Deli and has a GREAT sense of humor. Support person would support in the areas of reading and academic practice; teaching of life skills such as laundry, cleaning, grocery shopping; social skills; transportation to various activities and community skills such as independence in his neighborhood. Extensive educational training and support will be provided to individual who fills this position. Individual becomes part of an extended team of other professionals: Reading therapist, Speech therapist, Sensory Integration therapist, along with other facilitators who are Denver Seminary students.

Time schedules to be filled:
• Every Monday through Friday, 7 a.m.-11 a.m. One person to work every day.
• Monday, Saturday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Time frames can not be divided but days could be split up between two people or one person could do both days. the days of the week will vary from semester to semester based on Denver Seminary student’s schedules.
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Family and Son’s residences located in the Denver Tech Center, I 25 & Belleview area.

Great family, great location, great son.

To Apply: Marian (303) 618-4748

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