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We kicked off Employee Appreciation Week with breakfast bright and early Monday morning. On Tuesday we delivered ice cream and cookies to everyone! But our favorite part of the week was our celebration on Thursday night! This years theme is "Around the World." We had four teams and each team was given a country. Each team did a presentation and a dance for their country. The first team had China. Next up came Scotland. Then France. Lastly Russia! It was tough to pick a winner, everyone was so creative. But we had to go with Team China. We then enjoyed an awesome meal together and were able to pass out goodies to all of our employees!
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 On March 16th Endless Options, Inc. hosted an event to bring the community together and show the similarities in all people. We then served cake and refreshments at our Howard County Service Coordination offices to celebrate five years of local service coordination. We had an amazing turnout at this event and were fortunate enough to have a drone available to take aerial photos, courtesy of our Board President, Paul Byland. We look forward to hosting this event for many more years. Make sure you check out all of the pictures and mark your calendars for March of 2017! We had so much fun Saturday at our 4th Annual Ability 5K! We had 76 people sign up of which over 50 people participated in the 5K. Our very own Susan Watring came in first place at 26:48. We still have some shirts left, if you would like one they are $20 each. Check out the pictures from the event:                       145 years.
That is the collective number of years of experience in supporting people with developmental disabilities that came together for Brown Bag Lunch in January. Brown Bag Lunch is a monthly "lunch and learn" that is hosted by Howard County Service Coordination for the county service providers. Most months the participants discuss rules and regulations, division directives, guidelines and procedures. This month participants from Howard County Service Coordination, Endless Options, and the Braun Agency paused to take a moment to celebrate the New Year, look back at where we have been, and focus on where we are going. Together. During discussion the group shared what brought them to work in the field. Answers varied but the overreaching theme was that most came for a college practicum or a job to get through college. Very few chose to make a career of working in this field. This field has a way of choosing us. We laughed at the shared moments of joy and agreed about the challenges that we face daily. When you have that many years of experience in one place, great things can happen. And they are happening every day. Our annual holiday party was a huge success. We were very fortunate to be able to have Settler's Inn cater our meal this year. We owe a huge thank you to all of our staff that helped plan, decorate, set up, and clean up this year! We were very excited to implement Service Awards this year. The awards are given in five year increments and are as follows: Five Years - $250 Ten Years - $500 Fifteen Years - $750 Twenty & Greater Years - $1,000 We had SIXTEEN employees to receive awards! This is a huge number of long term employees to celebrate! Each supervisor spoke about our employees and celebrated their successes.    2015 Five Year Service Awards2015 Ten Year Service AwardsWe also gave a ten year award to Diana Mueller who is not pictured. 2015 Fifteen Year Service AwardsIf you haven't seen the video that was also made to celebrate Debra Miller's years of service you can watch it here.
Howard County Service Coordination has hired a DJ and a dance floor and is now offering exclusive dances for all individuals with developmental disabilities.
These dances are held every other month typically on the third Saturday of the month from 6-9. We provide refreshments, all you have to bring are your dancing shoes! Our next dances are scheduled as follows: January 30, 2016: 6 PM - 9 PM St. Joseph Catholic Church Hall, 300 S Cleveland St, Fayette March 26, 2016: 6 PM - 9 PM St. Joseph Catholic Church Hall, 300 S Cleveland St, Fayette May 21, 2016: 6 PM - 9 PM St. Joseph Catholic Church Hall, 300 S Cleveland St, Fayette July 23, 2016: 6 PM - 9 PM St. Joseph Catholic Church Hall, 300 S Cleveland St, Fayette September 17, 2016: 6 PM - 9 PM St. Joseph Catholic Church Hall, 300 S Cleveland St, Fayette November 19, 2016: 6 PM - 9 PM St. Joseph Catholic Church Hall, 300 S Cleveland St, Fayette |
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Funding and support for Endless Options, Inc is provided by The Missouri Division of Development Disabilities, The Howard County Sheltered Services Board, the Fayette Area Common Fund, the Fayette Area Community Trust, and private donations and fundraising efforts by the wonderful people of our community.
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