interviews

I asked the following questions to three different employees at the ARC:

1) Job Position
2)What are your responsibilities at the ARC?
3)How do you accomplish the mission statement?

Here are my answers:

Nichole Boileau:
1) Team Leader and One on One
2) Make sure the staff is doing their job and the program is running efficiently. In one on one make sure the child's needs are being met.
3) She accomplishes the mission statement by making sure the kids needs are met, informing parents about programs at the ARC and providing services outside of the ARC such as babysitting.

Debbie Davies:
1) Chief Executive Officer
2) Her job is to make sure the employees follow the mission statement and do not get distracted. She also does hiring for higher up positions and helps with fund raising.
3) She accomplished the mission statement having a passion for giving the members the best lives they can have and she is driven by values not tasks.

Kathi Lentz:
1) Operations Director
2) She oversees seven full time administrators who are responsible for a variety of services and supports for individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. In my department we have all of the Family Support services,In Home Respite, Saturday Program, Sunday Program, After School Care,Cash Subsidy, Life Skills Tutoring, Recreation, Adult Evening Classes,Real Life Choices, Friday Night Teen Program, summer camp and information and referral service for families. Under the employment portion of my job falls our Adult Training Center and Supported Employment Services. I am also responsible for serving a number of Arc committees and I serve as a member of the advisory board to the Family Support Coalition of NJ.
3) As an agency we work hard to provide people with as many choices as possible. In the past people who lived in residential settings never had the opportunity to participate in decisions about where they lived or who their roommate was. The Arc is making every effort to include people in those decisions. In the employment area we are supporting people to sample different jobs, explore their talents and find a job they like. For example we are working with one woman who wants to start her own greeting card business using her artwork.

Then I spoke with the employees about what my role as an intern is and I was told to observe and learn, interact with the kids and know the children's needs with their different disabilities. I am also responsible for leading the crafts when possible at the after school program. I will also be working with different departments and learning how to do different jobs at the ARC.

I posted the ARC's website in a previous post and that has the mission and goals on it.