Patience
March 9th, 2012 | 
Author: “A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains”
I found myself thinking about all of the things we can do in Therap and want our agency to do more and more! Then I realized that our agency is the largest provider in Ct and I really need to relax a bit, and have some “Patience”! Good things come in time!!
Here in CT, we are having our next CT User Group Meeting on March 15th, 2pm, at Oak Hill’s Campus in Hartford. If you need some additional information, email me at julianm@ciboakhill.org. It is a nice time to share your wealth of knowledge within Therap!
Had a wonderful time at the conference in NJ in February. I really enjoyed being in a hotel by myself and no one asking me to feed them, do laundry, and do homework, but don’t tell! I did have to lose 10lbs after those 3 days!
I really liked the Training Management Section and this is next on our list! I am setting it up this month and any suggestions or helpful tips would be greatly appreciated from anyone out there using the system. We are not using the entire section of having staff signing up for trainings, but we will be using this for staff to alert them when their training is due. Think this would be great and it will help staff from lapsing in their training when it is sitting right there on their First Pg!
Our agency’s motto is “Consistency” and we are currently doing alot of training for Supervisors, RN’s, and Behaviorists! The ISP section has been working well and Supervisors enjoy the Individual List Pg! RN’s are finishing entering medications and are working on getting everyone using the Appointment Section in Health Tracking. Behaviorists are working on ISP’s for mood and anxiety scales, reinforcement schedules, and getting everything on Therap! No More Paper! Yeah!
So, I guess I need to have some “Patience”, it will all work out in the end! We will get there!
Enjoy this weather, we have been very lucky this winter, just 2 snowstorms and one of them was before Halloween. Amazing!
Mary Beth Julian-Supervisor, Oak Hill, Hartford, CT
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Tags: Connecticut, consistency, Quality Assurance, supervisor, Training, User Groups | 
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The latest at Oak Hill
Hello Everyone!
Oak Hill continues to move forward in the world of Therap! We are still waiting anxiously for the time tracking (AKA: Sleep/Mood) to be released. This will be a huge benefit to our participants!
We have also just learned that Oak Hill is hoping to host its first CT User Group! This is such exciting news as it will be another outlet to network and brainstorm! I’m sure there will be more info to follow.
On a personal note: I will be on maternity leave for the next few months but will be looking forward to “hosting” my first webinar upon my return. Hope everyone has a wonderful summer!!!
Deanna
The Record is now straight…
Here is the final list of latest Certified Trainers newly added in New York:
- Deanna Bisaillon, Behavior Specialist, Oak Hill, CT
- Mary Beth Julian, Program Supervisor, Oak Hill, CT
- (From L to R) Kari Wiss, Director of Operations; Rebekah Turner, QMRP; Stacy Arnold, QMRP, all from Developing Potential in Kansas City, Missouri
- Mary Lawson, Executive Director, PAKS, in Nebraska
- Terry Ford, Assistant Executive Director, Horizons, Windsor, Connecticut
- Julia Chapel, Director of Quality Enhancement and Staff Development, Horizons, Windsor, Connecticut
- Antonio Brown, RN, from St. John’s Community Services in Washington DC
These are the newest smarty pants…up to the second but I’m sure there are a few more hiding out there!
Watch for the Certified Trainers Series of webinars…soon to be posted on the Therap website.
Allison
WNY User Group
Yesterday, I left my office at The Resource Center to drive north two hours to attend a WNY User Group Session, and it was awesome!!! Thanks to the great staff at Community Services for the Developmentally Disabled located in Buffalo, NY for once again opening their agency for a user group session.
And also to Kris and Stephen who were willing to put up with all of us throwing out our great ideas for future upgrades! I’m pretty sure that they wrote everything down to take back to the Therap programmers to work on for us!!!! Hopefully we’ll see some of those great ideas soon! 
If you haven’t already attended a local user group, you really should consider it. You can find a list of sessions on Therap’s homepage. It’s a great opportunity to see how other agencies in your state are utilizing Therap. Everytime I’ve attended, I’ve either learned how to do something that we aren’t doing or shared something with other agencies that they aren’t doing. Either way, it’s a win-win for all agencies in attendance.
Another great reason for a user group session is for the Points Program. Kelly and I are currently working on getting enough points to attend any future conferences that Therap might host in Hawaii!!! See you there Kevin!
Renee
