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Phrases of Change
March was declared by the Governor of Nebraska to be “Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month” On this occasion, Wade Johnson (board and founding member of Our Place After School Care) would like to share his story on caring for teens with developmental disabilities. My wife, Adeline Johnson, and I started Our Place After School Care in
Building Stronger Teens Through Vocational Training
Our Place is all about making teens as independent as possible. We teach social skills. They learn to create a household budget and practice cooking, cleaning, and shopping skills. Beyond exploring careers, they learn work readiness skills such as creating resumes, practicing filling our job applications, and preparing for job interviews. We provide a sound
Building a Safer Community Through After School Care
Teenagers need to learn skills, have friends and keep busy. We worry about teenagers, especially after school, who might get into mischief or endanger themselves because they do not have activities. Our community created a program because they need expensive skilled attention that is not available. When parents of a teen with special needs cannot
Call For The Future
Our Place receives call after call from parents asking to have the hours of the program extended because their teen is dismissed from school at 1:00 pm or other early dismissal times from school. We also receive calls from parents of children under the age of 13 who have nowhere to go because daycares are