P.E.P. Center News
The parents of one of our participants recently took the time to write a letter to us letting us know how their son has improved since joining our program. They have given us their permission to post the contents of the letter on our website.
To whom it may concern,
Since our son john has joined the P.E.P Program, we have noticed a change in his personality. He is a lot more happy, more willing to express himself, and show a happyness with his life. He looks forward to the bus coming everyday, getting excited when we tell him it has arrived.
Marshal & Pearl Hall
update as of May 16, 2011 1:35pm
Keller Williams Realty staff came to The P.E.P Center for their annual Red Day event. The staff from Keller Williams took the whole day to volunteer their time performing various tasks including painting, gardening and cleaning.
Take a look at the pictures at the bottom of the page to see Keller Williams staff giving back to their community. We are greatly appreciative to have a company like Keller Williams Realty in our community. Other companies that contributed to the day include,
Pinter's Flowerland located in Livonia, MI - Pinter's Sold us flowers for the front out our building at a deeply discounted price.
Livonia Kiwanis Club - Kiwanis Club reimbursed us for the expenses we incurred purchasing materials and flowers for our building.
Thanks go out to those companies as well for their contributions. It would NOT have been possible without them.
update as of May 06, 2011 10:16am
Our Day Program (Skill Building Program) has experienced tremendous growth this year. We would like to take the opportunity to thank our participants and parents for their patience during the process we have gone through this past year in contracting with Synergy and growing our program. Thanks also goes out to Synergy Partners LLC. Synergy has been an excellent Managed Care Provider to work with. They have competent staff and any of our questions our concerns are addressed promptly. We encourage you to consider Synergy Partners. Visit their website by clicking HERE.
To help our consumers better understand the structure of the community mental health system, I am posting this chart. This chart details the flow of your tax dollars and should help you to better understand the process.
you can view this chart by clicking HERE
update as of February 18, 2011 01:15pm
As many of you know, several weeks ago a LIvonia Police Officer was killed in the line of duty. Our students and staff took the time to make and sign cards to be sent to the Livonia Police Department and to the family of the officer. The Livonia Police Department replied by letter a few days later to express their thanks. You can read that letter by clicking HERE. We ask that you keep Officer Nehasil's family in your prayers during this difficult time.
update as of February 18, 2011 10:12pm
The P.E.P Center was recently featured in an article in the Livonia Observer. You can CLICK HERE to go to to the Observers website and view the article.
update as of February 07, 2011 11:05am
Earlier today the staff over at ddadvocates.com took the time to draft a press release for us that talks about what we do here as well as some of our recent accomplishments. DD Advocates will be sending out this press release to a couple of their media contacts. We would like to thank them for taking the time to draft this release. You can read the press release by clicking HERE
update as of February 07, 2011 10:36am
The P.E.P Center has recently been featured in a blog on ddadvocates.com. ddadvocates.com is run by Ed Diegel who is a leading figure in the special needs community. CLICK HERE to read the blog and learn more about us! you can also go directly to ddadvocates.com by clicking HERE. I encourage you to take a look around on their website. You will find some very useful and interesting information on their website.
update as of February 03, 2011 1:18pm
As you can see below on January 18th we posted a letter from a transition coordinator at Cooke School in Northville, MI that touched on some issues with C.L.S or "Community Living Services". Today I am posting a letter from a parent of a C.L.S consumer. This parent gives her thoughts and opinions on C.L.S and other programs like ours in the area. These first hand accounts of other programs in the area once again raise the question of why C.L.S has chosen not to work with us. CLICK HERE to read the letter. Due to Privacy Laws, all personal identifying information such as names and ages have been removed.
update as of February 03, 2011 12:07pm
One of the aspects of our program here at The P.E.P Center that we are going to begin to focus more on is community integration for our participants. One of the things that the staff will be doing is making contact with local business's and inquiring about volunteer work for our clients that would eventually lead to part time employment. You can read the text of the letter that we will be providing to local business owners explaining our business and programs by clicking HERE
update as of January 18, 2011 1:34pm
As far as our progress goes with contracting with the various managed care providers in the area, we have made progress with M.O.R.C and we are currently contracted with Synergy. We have not been so lucky with C.L.S. You can CLICK HERE to read more and draw your own conclusions. This will give you a behind the scenes look of the other "factors" at play in the system. The lady that started this letter writing campaign is the transition coordinator at Cooke school in Northville, MI and has many years of experience in this industry.
----Below I have posted comments that I received via email from a concerned parent----
Comments : Cindy,I just
read the letter addressed to Mr Dehem.I am not with CLS-but I have a (removed due to privacy laws)
that is (removed due to privacy laws). and I couldn't agree more with all the comments in that letter.I
think all this community stuff has gone way overboard.What does it prove
parading people around to the humane society to the malls to nursing homes.Many
times the consumers couldn't care less.My (removed due to privacy laws) just enjoys being with a
group of people like herself doing crafts watching movies,exercising ect ect.
It can be great fun being with a group of people more so then being out alone
with an adult. Also unless a program has a van with a lift it is not safe
taking consumers out of their wheelchairs and hauling them in and out of vans
just because they have to be out in the community.When they leave their home they
are getting out.Our seniors go to the senior center spend a good part of the
day there with their peers-why is this O.K. for them but people with d.d. need
to be out 80% of the time.I am a homemaker. There are many days I dont get out
at all.Where did we get this that because my (removed due to privacy laws) is (removed due to privacy laws) needs to be paraded around the community 80% of the time.Many of
these places she doesn't even understand what it is all about.I think all the
money we are spending on this would be better spent improving programs and
making more of them available to families so we could have more choices.When
are some of these people that are suppose to be helping us realize that some
individuals are very low functioning,totally dependent they can't work,don't
even understand the concept.Often they don't understand if they are at the mall
or at the humane society.The families need a break-or they both need to work.I
think C.L.S. should contract with P.E.P. and let the consumers and their
families decide what they want.
JoAnn
WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP: After clicking the above link and reading the letter from Holly, please CLICK HERE to go to our contact form and fill it out with your information and comments on the issue.
The P.E.P Center has found a new location here in the Livonia area! Our new location is much more accessible and accommodating to our participants needs. We at The P.E.P Center believe that the changes we have made over the past year including our new partnership with Synergy Partners LLC and our decision to relocate have positioned us to better service our participants and enabled us to obtain the necessary resources to grow and serve more clients.If you would like to tour our new location please call 734-855-4451 and we will be happy to show you all that we have to offer.
Keller Williams Red Day 2011 pics
29721 Six Mile Rd.
734-855-4451
