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Getting Ready for the Real World

Getting Ready for the Real World. Look in to the Crystal Ball!. Are you Married? Do you have Children? What’s you Occupation? How long have you been at your present job? Did you continue education after high school? What did you do, or go?

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Getting Ready for the Real World

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  1. Getting Ready for the Real World

  2. Look in to the Crystal Ball! • Are you Married? Do you have Children? • What’s you Occupation? How long have you been at your present job? • Did you continue education after high school? What did you do, or go? • Do you have a mentors who helped you through your life? • Where do you live? Where else have you lived? • What are living arrangements now? • How do you use your free time? • Do your ever think of doing something to help others? • Have you manager you finance well? • What is the relationship between your parents, foster parents, and family members like now/ • Did you have any “ hard bumps” in Life? • Do you have any health problems? Has anyone you love past away? • Have you thought through how you feel about death, or religious? • What Influenced the choices you made in Life? • What did you parents/caregivers teach that you value most? Questions that can be overwhelming, but important questions that need to be answered.

  3. Plan for your future To make the past questions easier to handle, and not be overwhelming,make future goals: • Short term goals- to be completed in 0-4 weeks • Medium term goals- completed in 2-12 months • Long term goals – completed in 1 or more years

  4. Find Help in your area Office of Consumer Advocacy 265 Mill Street, Suite 200 Hagerstown MD 21740 Phone: 301.790.5054  Fax: 301.791.3097 Mental Health Association of Frederick County 263 W. Patrick Street Frederick MD 21701 Phone: 301.663.0011 Fax: 301.695.4747  Frederick County/Washington County Hotline 263 W. Patrick Street Frederick MD 21701 Phone: 301.663.0011  Hotline: 800.422.0009  Fax: 301.695.4747  hotline@fcmha.org

  5. Budget for the Future FIXED EXPENSES FLEXIBLE EXPENSES Rent ____________________ Food ______________________ Gas ____________________ Furnishings ___________________ Electric ___________________ Appliances ____________________ Water ___________________ Clothing _____________________ Telephone/cell _____________ Transportation/auto _____________ Cable __________________ Laundry/cleaning _______________ Renter Insurance ___________ Personal care __________________ Auto insurance _____________ Medical expenses _______________ Saving __________________ Vacation/recreation _____________ Other _____________________ Other__________________________ Total income (after deductions) _____________ Total of Fixed and flexible expenses _____________ Total remaining _____________

  6. Going shopping for Basic needs to stay on your budget

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  9. Check Book Transacting Log

  10. Maryland Coalition of Families for Children’s Mental Healthwww.mdcoalition.org Ula Keech CPSP Family Navigator The Family Network MCF Maryland Coalition of Families for Children's Mental Health 301.784.7142 240.818.3534 (Cell) ukeech@mdcoalition.org Sarah Phillips-Bennett CPSP Family Navigator The Family Network MCF Maryland Coalition of Families for Children's Mental Health 301.784.7196 240.818.3535 (Cell) sbennett@mdcoalition.org

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