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Aspen Network aspennetwork Tel: (925) 262-3135 Email: aspennetworkinfo@gmail

Aspen Network www.aspennetwork.net Tel: (925) 262-3135 Email: aspennetworkinfo@gmail.com. DIRECTORS CONSULTANTS Meg Fields, RN, Psy.D . Kathy Allen, M.A . Liz Wilson Palmer

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Aspen Network aspennetwork Tel: (925) 262-3135 Email: aspennetworkinfo@gmail

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  1. Aspen Network www.aspennetwork.netTel: (925) 262-3135Email: aspennetworkinfo@gmail.com DIRECTORS CONSULTANTS Meg Fields, RN, Psy.D. Kathy Allen, M.A. Liz Wilson Palmer Michael Fields, RN Nancy Perry, Ph.D., Adults on the Autism Spectrum Leave the Nest: Achieving Supported IndependenceMENTORS Amy Fields John Hutchinson Tyler Shields Harrison Woolmington

  2. What is Aspen Network and Pod Living? Offers a place to learn social and independent living skills with the goal of realizing their potential to move forward in our world in college, vocation or employment. Blended diagnoses living and learning together. Social anxieties, mood differences, OCD, general learning disabilities, Non-Verbal Learning Disabilities, neurodiversity and spectrum differences.

  3. PODS: Residential Living • Creating a transformative experience because young adults are succeeding in sharing their lives and being with others who enjoy them exactly how they are. • Aimed at developing independence and positive living skills away from home with peers of their own. • Services Include: • Counseling support • Supervision of living skills while teaching • useful habits • Oversight of food management • Money management • Social and leisure planned activities • Educational therapy

  4. SOCIAL GROUPA MOTIVATING and FUN group that young adults look forward to attending! Organic and Real-time Observation of Teens/Young Adults with Social Differences • Improve self esteem • Lessen anxieties and fears • Meet new people in supportive • environment • Learn academic and social • employment skills • Take on leadership roles

  5. ASPEN NETWORK Vision • Envision a world where our youth will beaccepted and enjoyed for their “authentic” selves. • “Social Cognitive Ramps” will be predominant for people with neurodiversity to enable full-inclusion into society. • Affordable living options with accommodated support. • “Safe spaces” that are accessible to people with neurodiversity for work, play and lifeas we build one POD at a time.

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