January 2021: Planning My Year

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                       January 2021: Planning My Year

Planning My Year Overview
January is often the fresh start for many individuals. With the coming of the new year, many
want to explore and implement new beginnings. This month we will plan for important dates,
goals, and ambitions for 2021.

Planning My Year – Jan 2021 Objectives:
By the end of this month, learners will be able to:
    • Collect and organize important service days, holidays, and key events in their lives.
    • Create a calendar of these dates
    • Define their organizational & personal planning styles
    • Discuss planning styles
    • Identify important dates, service events, and timelines for their ISPs

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                                 January Dates to Remember
               Daily Themes                                   Month Awarenesses
1    New Years Day                                             Bath Safety Month
2    National Science Fiction Day                              Glaucoma Awareness Month
3    JRR Tolkien Day                                           Slow Cooking month
4    National Trivia Day                                       Soup Month
5    National Whipped Cream Day                                Braille Literacy Month
6    Sherlock Holmes’ Birthday                                 Hot Tea Month
7    Fossils & Old Rocks Day                                   Get organized month
9    Word Nerd Day                                             Hobby Month
     National Cut Energy Costs Day
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     Houseplant Appreciation day                                Weekly Themes
     National Hot Toddy Day                    Jan 10th   -
11                                                             Letter Writing Week
     Learn your name in morse code day             17 th

12   National Hot Tea Day                      Jan 10th -
                                                               Pizza Week
     Korean American Day                           17th
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     Clean Your Desk Day                        Jan 18th-
                                                               Sugar Awareness
14   Dress Up Your pet Day                      Jan 24th
15   Hat Day                                   Jan 23rd –
                                                               Hot Air balloon Week
                                                 Jan 31st
18   Blue Monday (saddest day of year)
     MLK Jr Day
20   Cheese Lovers Day
     Inaguration
     Hugging Day – (Covid safety “virtual
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     hug”
24   National Compliment Day
26   Australia Day
     International Holocaust
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     Rememberance Day
28   National Lego ADay
29   National Puzzle day
31   Fun @ Work Day

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Week 1
January 4 th – January 8th
Theme: Calendars from Around the World

Weekly Goal:
By the end of the week, participants will recall a calendar type from the history of calendars
from around the world.

Objective 01:
Participants will collect and organize calendars from history according to historical timelines.

Objective 02: Identify two uses of calendars historically (or culturally). Examples: sunlight,
crops, hunting, specific holidays.

Skill Building
Participants will be defining the use of calendars, why humans tracked important dates
historically, and identify why tracking dates is important.

Goal: By the end of the week, participants will distinguish types of calendars used and explore
ways that different cultures have historically kept track of important dates and times.

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Monday January 4th - National Trivia Day
Person-Centered Thinking & Safety

Objective 01:
At the end of the hour, participants will be able to explain why cultures practice keeping track
of important dates over time.

Objective 02:
Participants will practice keeping track of important dates using a mock calendar activity on
Zoom.

1. Introduce this week’s theme - 10 Minutes
Calendars from around the world:
Calendars are systems used to organize time and keep track of important moments in time over
a long amount of time. We use monthly calendars based on Gregorian calendar themes
2. Questions to Consider & Ask the Chat – 10 Minutes
    a. Why do you think people use calendars?
    b. How do calendars help us with our cultural traditions?
    c. What are examples of important dates we could mark on our calendars based on some
        holidays we already know? (ex. Christmas, valentine’s day)
3. Introduce Calendars Used Around the World – 15 Minutes
    Calendars are used in almost every place in the world for different reasons. These reasons
    can be for following crop cycles, understanding lunar movements, or just to keep track of
    important dates throughout the year.
4. Wrap Up – 5 Minutes
    a. Review calendars covered in today’s meeting
                     i. Lunar Calendar
                    ii. Egyptian Calendar
                   iii. Roman (Julian Calendar)
                   iv. Gregorian Calendar
            b. Why we use Gregorian Calendar today

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Tuesday January 5th
Civics & Community

Objective 01:
Participants will identify three days important to the From Home to Home community.
Objective 02:
Participants will recall different calendars from cultural communities around the world.

   1. Show and Share – 20 minutes
      Ask participants to recall some different calendars from around the world. If time
      permits, allow chat to use callout from yesterday and zoom annotate/identify calendars
      based on questions about the calendars from yesterday.
         a. Ask participants about specific days in hope to home that we may not have
             program.
         b. Why would we not have program?
                   i. A holiday
                  ii. Some sort of gathering
                 iii. An emergency
   2. Which calendar belongs to each culture activity – Calendar Trivia – 20 minutes
         a. Quick review of yesterday’s activity, countries, and what the calendars mean.
         b. Using yesterday’s lesson, match and/or write the name on the country in which
             the calendar belongs.
         c. Allow users to use Zoom annotation to draw a line from the country flag to the
             calendar in which the country may belong
   3. Observed Holidays in Our Program & Wrap Up – 10 minutes
         a. Navigate to our yearly hope calendar
         b. How are days on our calendar are marked on our website? (visual call outs and
             zoom annotation heavy)

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Wednesday January 6th
Social Connection & Wellness
Objective 01:
When presented with a story about keeping track of important dates, participants will identify
words used to track dates (habit, goal, important).
Objective 02:
Using date tracking, Participants will practice tracking their own important dates using zoom
annotation.

   1. Show & Share: Introduce this week’s theme – 20 Minutes
          a. How can tracking our dates/habits be a healthy decision for our wellness?
          b. Zoom calendar activity: Using Zoom & screen sharing or annotation, participants
               will identify an important date in January (examples – Martin Luther King Day, a
               holiday from another country’s calendar, etc.)
          c. Icons and visuals: Large calendar of January (or another month if selected).
   2. Life Skills Story: Why keeping track of dates is important -– 30 minutes
          a. With the provided life skills story, participants will review the story and annotate
               as following.
          b. Use corresponding icons to share social story with participants.
   3. Story Questions & Discussion – 15 minutes:
          a. Review the following terms with participants: habit, goal, tracking, and dates.
          b. Use the discussion prompts in the life skills story to ask participants why the
               characters keep track of dates and decide to work towards their goals.
          c. Ask the group if they have a specific goal that they would like to work towards in
               2021.
          d. Brainstorm an example of a goal and why it is different from a habit.

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Thursday January 7th
Rights & Self Advocacy

Objective 01:
Participants will describe dates that are important to them or their culture throughout the year.
Objective 02:
Participants will sort dates based on importance based upon the week’s activities.

   1. Show & Share – 20 Minutes
         a. Ask the participants what are dates you consider important to you (Christmas,
            Thanksgiving, Chinese New Year)
         b. If participants would like to share their screens, allow them to show an example
            of a way in which they celebrate their important holiday.
   2. Which day would you consider important to remember? – 15 Minutes
         a. Important Example: my ISP meeting, my best friends’ birthday, a holiday
            important to my family.
            Non-important day: put a zucchini on my neighbor’s porch day, national hot dog
            day.
         b. Examples of dates that may be important in January are included at the
            beginning of curriculum is a list of fun days in January to use as exaples..
   3. More important, sort of important, Less important activity – 15-20 Minutes
         a. Share that you are going to review different holidays or dates that occur each
            year and the participants are going to have the opportunity to vote with Zoom
            annotation on if they consider the holiday more important or less important.
         b. Participants and staff will take turns sorting dates based by importance, such as
            service dates, holidays, and fun dates in between.
         c. Have important/not as important on screen.
         d. Read out the holiday and its description. Have participants Zoom annotate and
            circle either the word important or not important.
         e. Engage participants if they chose important or not important. Ask why they
            came to that conclusion and have them share if they find a specific day
            important than their peers
         f. Continue this activity until holidays are finished. You are more than welcome to
            discuss more holidays than the specific ones provided.

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Friday January 8th
Knowledge & Fun

Objective 01: Participants will relate important dates to the community cultures (jeopardy game
online).
Objective 02: When presented with a list of important dates, participants will illustrate one
reason this date is important.

   1. Show & Share Review this week – 20 Minutes
         a. What calendars did we explore?
         b. Why is tracking on our calendars important for us to do?
         c. How/ Wwhat are some things we can track on our own calendars/ portfolio?
         d. Which calendar did you find the most fascinating, or coolest? Why was that
            calendar so cool to you?
   2. Calendar Quiz Activity Game – 35 Minutes
         a. Using the PPT Quiz Game as a fun way to review this week’s topics
   3. Wrap up the week – 5 Minutes
         a. How will participants use their calendars/portfolios in the future?
         b. Introduce next week’s theme: Planning styles
         c. How we can use planning styles to help us make our own plans and track our
            goals for the year using our new knowledge about keeping track of dates and
            holidays (or important events) in our portfolios)?

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Week 2
January 11 – January 15
Theme: Planning Styles

Goal: By the end of the week, participants will identify one planning style they would like to
implement for their own 2021 plan.

Objective 01: Given examples of planning styles that may be used, participants will select a
planning style to implement on their monthly calendars.
Objective 02: Shown different planning styles, participants will differentiate between each
planning style with examples and explanations.

Skill Building
Distinguishing planning styles and keeping track of important dates
Goal: Participants will gather and share planning styles to begin calendaring their own
important dates in their hope to home portfolio.

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Monday January 11th
Person-Centered-Thinking & Safety

Objective 01: Participants will list or identify a planning style when presented with an icon list.
Objective 02: Participants will be able to set a date which they assess the safety of their
workspace as a team virtually.

   1. Introduce this week’s theme: Different Planning styles - 10 Minutes
          a. Different planning styles: This week we will discuss, explore, and review different
             styles of planning that an individual can use in their lives. Planning helps us
             remember important dates and the time of events, and is a great way to track
             out goals.
   2. Show & Share: How do you plan? – 15 Minutes
          a. Ask participants if they have ever used a planner or calendar before.
          b. Was the calendar something you wrote in daily, monthly, or weekly?
          c. Allow participants time to discuss and discover ways that their peers might have
             used calendars in the past.
   3. Explore Planning Styles – 30 minutes
          a. Using the icons provided, explain different types of planning styles.
                   i. Goal Oriented Planning: In goal planning, you tend to lean towards
                      creating plans and outlines where you can see your end goal and add in
                      the milestones and objectives that you need to achieve to get there.
                  ii. Direction – Sometimes while we are working towards something, we use
                      plans that are a map (kind of like the map in the front of our portfolios
                      that are coming out next week!). This is a strategy that can be used to.
                 iii. Task Based – There are a variety of people out there that enjoy planning
                      based on a to-do list. Simply checking off their tasks (or to-dos) for the
                      day is how they like to plan their days, weeks, months, and even a full
                      year! A task planner is someone who likes to make lists of what they
                      need to do at that moment.
                          1. Do you have any examples of to-do lists? Have you ever tried to
                              use them in a planning way?
                 iv. Staying in the moment – This is a relatively neat way to stay organized, by
                      focusing on what is happening right this second. They keep their eyes on
                      the “end prize” of their daily plans and keep focused on what they can do
                      in that moment in time to accomplish daily, weekly, or monthly goals.
                      This type of planning usually involves time management and being aware
                      of the clock and what you need to accomplish at that moment.

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Tuesday January 12th
Civics & Community

Objective 01: Using an online calendar, participants will explore a community-based virtual
museum in their area to calendar into their program.

Objective 02: Participants will identify a date in which the community around them will vote.

   1. Show & Share – Review Planning Styles – 15 minutes
          a. Review the week’s topic: Planning styles.
          b. Touch on the planning styles and briefly describe each one: Task oriented, Stay
              present,
          c. Using prompts from yesterday’s show and share discussion, ask participants
              what type of planning style they found the most interesting and why.
   2. Find a virtual activity to attend in your community – 35 minutes
          a. Ask participants about places or events that they enjoy attending and visiting.
          b. As a group, decided on 3-5 activities or locations that you would like to research
              as a team.
          c. Navigate to the websites by using an internet search engine of your choice.
          d. Explore the website virtually with the participants, noting anything that may be
              of interest to be brought up later.
          e. See if the location has any “virtually-based events” available or upcoming on the
              calendar. This activity may be a sort of scavenger hunt, but it will be an excellent
              opportunity for participants to explore locations that we have not been able to
              explore physically this year.
          f. Make a note of any events (either pre-recorded or upcoming) for a future date.
   3. Wrap – Up & Review – 10 minutes
          a. Remind participants that planning styles are all different, but they all act towards
              achieving the best possible outcome.
          b. Review the places you found today and note if there are any events that are
              upcoming or prerecorded to attend.
          c. Using the virtual calendar, record one (or more if wanted) dates in which an
              event will be streamed or when the team can attend virtually.

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Wednesday January 13th
Social Connection & Wellness
Objective 01: Participants will be able to identify dates in their week that can be used for
relaxation exercises.

Objective 02: Participants will demonstrate using their personal calendar to create a social
Zoom meet-up with their breakout group.

(Potential for meeting outside of program hour – participant driven activity)
   1. Show & Share – What relaxation techniques have you used while at home? – 30
       Minutes
            a. Review the week’s theme and yesterday’s activity.
            b. Again, ask participants if they are leaning toward a planning style or if they are
               still thinking about the options.
            c. Remind them that next week the portfolios will be arriving, and we will begin to
               track our own important dates, goals, holidays, and anything else in the
               portfolios.
            d. Ask participants about ways they have relaxed or kept active while being remote
               (Examples could be yoga, walks, meditation, reading, crafting, creating, etc. The
               possibilities of relaxation are truly endless!)
            e. Ask participants ways in which they have used virtual spaces to socialize and
               used their face-to-face time online to relax. Have they been sharing what they
               are doing after program? Are you sharing book reviews online with peers? There
               are many things that participants may be doing virtually.
   2. Social Story Annotation: Relaxing Virtually – 30 minutes
            a. Using the provided life skills story and prompts, read the life skills story, and ask
                participants the corresponding questions.
            b. How has relaxing virtually changed from relaxing like we did in program?
            c. What are was virtually relaxing has been better?
            d. What are ways that we can continue to make relaxing virtually better?
            e. While participants answer questions (or annotate the screen with the icon
                examples) take note of their answers and remind them that we can try to
                implement these ideas in the coming weeks using our portfolio and tracking days
                that we complete the tasks as well as how we feel to see if the relaxation
                techniques we have identified are virtually working.

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Thursday January 14th
Rights & Self Advocacy

Objective 01: Given a list of breakout room options for the next week, participants will calendar
in at least two breakout sessions they want to attend and share these with their peers.

Objective 02: After a virtual challenging scenario story is shared, participants will identify the
challenge, and one action they can use to address the challenge (muting microphone, sharing
screen, etc.).

   1. Show & Share: Virtual Experiences We Enjoy – 15 minutes
         a. How have virtual classes helped us? What are ways that being able to “hang out”
             virtually has helped us stay connected?
         b. Allow participants to share their experiences with attending virtual programming
             (both positive and negative).
         c. Ask participants how we can plan to make virtual programming more accessible
             for their friends and other individuals. (Please keep note of anything interesting
             you find.)
   2. Scenario – Planning for virtual challenges in program – 35 minutes
         a. Read the virtual challenges in program scenario.
         b. Using the scenario provided, explore the challenges that the characters have
             while attending courses virtually.
         c. Review the challenge story and ask participants to:
                   i. Discuss how to plan for anything that may occur while attending program
                      virtually.
                  ii. Identify keyways in which being patient and flexible can help solve any
                      virtual challenges.
         d. Create a task list for identifying virtual challenges that may be encountered
             during virtual programming.
                   i. This task list can be created using Zoom annotation. Create a list of other
                      challenging virtual events that occur on one side of the screen. On the
                      other side of the screen, create a list of ways that we can plan to
                      problem-solve these events.
                  ii. As a team, create an action plan with at least 3 steps that facilitators and
                      participants can utilize in the event of a virtual challenge.
                 iii. Challenge examples: microphone unmuted, video not working, someone
                      getting kicked out of a room, screen frozen, etc.

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Friday January 15th
Knowledge & Fun
Objective 01: Participants will be able to identify similarities and differences between dates,
planning, and keeping track of things in their planner when presented with examples.

Objective 02: By the end of the lesson, participants will demonstrate one way in which they
have created a plan by marking a date in their portfolio and sharing with their group.

   1. Show & Share: Let us Review this week – 20 Minutes
          a. What sort of planning styles did we explore?
          b. Which style did you like? Which do you not like?
          c. Why is tracking on our calendars important for us to do?
          d. Are we ready to receive our portfolio? What are we going to be tracking?
   2. Virtual Exploration Activity – 35 Minutes
          a. For Tuesday’s activity this week, we explored a few places in our communities
              that offer virtual tours, have virtual events occurring throughout the year, what
              are some that we can watch now?
          b. What are activities that we would like to explore in the future?
          c. How can we use this resource to explore places we haven’t be able to explore
              while we have been working virtually?
   3. Wrap up the week – 15 Minutes
          a. Review the week’s goals and objectives.
          b. How will participants use their calendars/portfolios in the futures?
          c. Introduce next week’s theme: Planning styles and how we can use planning
              styles to help us make our own plans and track our goals for the year.
          d. REMIND EVERYONE THERE IS NO PROGRAM ON MONDAY

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Week 3
January 18 – January 22
Theme: Important Service Dates

Goal: By the end of the week, participants will identify and recall the 4 most important
service dates of their year and mark them on their personal planners.

Objective 01: Participants will be able to classify personal service dates from other important
dates using their Hope to Home planner

Objective 02: Using their Hope to Home planner, participants will schedule their service dates
for 2021

Skill Building
Recognizing important dates
Goal: Participants will understand, recall, and identify service dates important to their Hope
to Home programming.

Monday January 18th
No program – Martin Luther King Jr. Day

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Tuesday January 19th
Civics & Community

Objective 01: When presented with a holiday, participants will describe why we take off specific
days of the year to commemorate dates and important occurrences culturally.

Objective 02: After reviewing a monthly calendar, participants will identify which days we take
off yearly.

   1. Introduce this week’s skill building theme – 15 minutes
      Recognizing important dates and adding them to our planner:
          a. Why are keeping dates important to us?
          b. Why is focusing on service dates important?
          c. What service date is the most important to mark down (ISP)
          d. When is our ISP usually scheduled?
   2. Questions to Consider & Ask the Chat – 20 minutes
          a. This week is all about our most important service dates.
          b. Use the resources provided to review what an annual meeting generally looks
             like.
          c. Ask participants if they can recall the most important service dates throughout
             the year
                   i. Examples of service dates are an annual ISP, a semi-annual ISP
          d. Review how we can use our habit trackers and planners to create for both our
             annual and semi-annual meetings.
          e. Review ways in which tracking our habits and goal progress will help us get the
             most of our virtual meetings each day

   3. Brainstorming our Annual Meeting 20 minutes
         a. Ask clients to review ways in which they think that our virtual program can be
             shared during their annual meeting
         b. Using reference and brainstorming material, come up with 3 different ways
             virtual programming will be shared in our annual meeting

Wednesday January 20th
Social Connection & Wellness

Objective 01: Using their portfolio habit trackers, participants will identify 1-3 habits they
would like to keep track of for a week.

Objective 02: Participants will define two days in each week that they would like to explore
their portfolio habit trackers with their breakout teams.

   1. Check in – Show & Share (15 minutes)

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      a. Recap yesterday’s activity and this week’s theme.
      b. What are some ways keeping track of goals and habits are good for us?
      c. Have you found a habit tracker you like?
   2. Exploring New Habits (20 Minutes)
         a. At the beginning of every year, many people like to start fresh and learn new
             skills (or become better at old ones)
         b. Brainstorm a list of things that people may want to learn, try, or explore more.
                   i. Examples of new habits can be: practice a language for 5 minutes a day,
                      paint something new, complete a puzzle, move your body for 20 minutes
                      each day, reflect.
                  ii. Allow clients to brainstorm new habits
                 iii. Use a search engine if needed to explore different habits that are funny
                      or quirky
         c. Using the hope to home portfolio, ask clients to use an icon or write down what
             habit they would like to try for the next week.

Thursday January 21st
Rights & Self Advocacy
Objective 01: By the end of the hour, participants will choose one service provided in which they
would like to establish a working session or date to review the services or ask for different
services (if needed) Service reassessment.

   1. Check in – Show & Share (15 Minutes)
      a. Review this week’s theme and recap yesterday: What are ways in which we can use
         our virtual program for our portfolios?
      b. Make note of participant answers and ask if they would like to share some of their
         ideas with other sites
      c. Tomorrow’s show and share will be a review of this week’s habit.
      d. Ask participants if they have begun to track and how they are tracking (if they
         started)
   2. Reviewing our services (30 Minutes)
         a. Our program offers many services that help participants
         b. Ask participants to brainstorm different services they have received
         c. Are there ways that we can work towards making our services better?
         d. What sort of plan do we need in place to try and make change?
         e. Service changes need to be discussed with our service team, are there any
             changes you’d like to add to your plans?

Friday January 22nd
Knowledge & Fun:

   1. Show & Share: What’s been good this month? (20 Minutes)

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      a. Today’s show and share is a little different. Let’s review the things that have
          been good this month.
      b. Why was it so good?
      c. Could it be better?
      d. What do you want to do next month?
      e. Allow participants to share anything they want about this month so far and how
          the new year has been good to them.
      f. Keep it positive!
2. January Themed Bingo (25 minutes)
      a. Use the provided bingo generator and January themed bingo cards to play a little
          bingo this morning
      b. Have fun!

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Week 4
January 25 – January 29
Theme: Planning, Calendars, and My Service Dates

Goal: By the end of the week, participants will develop, mark their calendar, and recall the 4
most important service dates of their year

Objective 01: When prompted to recall important dates, participants will accurately recall dates
previously marked in their hope to home planner

Objective 02: Using calendar scenarios, participants will describe the service date that is coming
up in the scenario

Objective 03: Given examples of calendars, planning styles, and services, participants will
correctly classify each example into its correct category

Skill Building
Putting it together: My 2021 Calendar
Goal: Participants will discuss their planning style, share their hope to home 2021 calendar, and
recall all service dates

Monday January 25th
Person-Centered-Thinking & Safety
Objective 01: When presented with yearly service dates (Annual, semi-annual, etc.) participants
will be able to recognize when their annual or semiannual will take place throughout the year.

Objective 02: After reviewing the safety around their home, participants will identify and mark
the date in which they checked the batteries in a device in their home (example: smoke alarm,
remote)

   1. Check In – Show & Share (15 Minutes)
   Share and review this week’s topic: Planning, Calendars, and dates
          a. This week we will focus on the topics and outlines that we have been reviewing
              for January.
          b. What calendars have we discussed?
          c. Which calendar have you found most fascinating?
          d. Allow clients the chance to share their current portfolios and any sort of tracking
              mechanism they have come up with.

   2. Theme of The Week (15 Minutes)
         a. This week will be focused on exploring everything we have been working on up
            to this month.

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         b. How will topics like habit tracking, goal creating, and reviewing these topics help
             us in the future?
         c. What were some topics we learned this month that we think we should explore
             more?
                   i. Habit Trackers
                  ii. Creating goals
                 iii. Portfolios & Planning
                 iv. Using planning to be involved in our community
   3. Questions to Consider & Ask the Chat (10 Minutes)
         a. What are dates you remember every year (these can be good, bad, happy, sad,
             exciting, etc.)
         b. Do dates (actual date) change? No, but the day of the week might! (Memorial
             Day for example)
   4. Safety around my home (20 Minutes)
         a. Review the resources provided to begin assessing the safety of your at home
             workspace
         b. What are some workspace problems we may have?
         c. What action steps can we take to fix these?

Tuesday January 26th
Civics & Community
Objective 01: Participants will recall why we keep dates based on important local decisions (such
as elections, votes, or locally based decisions) and report a date in which they found.
    1. Check In – Show & Share (15 Minutes)
           a. Briefly recap and share what you did yesterday to make your workspace (or
                virtual Zoom space for program) safer for you to work in or around
           b. Allow clients to share what they have Done in their spaces in order to create a
                safer working area
           c. Brainstorm other potential hazards that we can be aware of.
    2. Activity on topic – 20 minutes
           a. Describe ways in which we can get involved virtually within our communities.
           b. Use the resource material provided to explore dates, locations, and times when
                local events occur that directly impact our communities
           c. An example of a local event that involves votes would be a public planning
                committee
    3. Share which important dates you have found and research them as a team. (10
        Minutes)
           a. Brainstorm ways in which we can make an impact by marking these dates and
                what sort of contributions we can make using our input
           b. Create a three-step action plan as a group that you would like to act upon
                virtually

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Wednesday January 27th
Social Connection & Wellness

Objective 01: After reading a story about a personal health plan, participants will identify which
habits or healthy activity the character decided to partake in

Objective 02: When prompted by staff, participants will share their planning style, and one
important date from their hope to home portfolio calendar

   1. Check In – Show & Share (15 Minutes)
      a. Review yesterday’s lesson on being active (even if it means being active virtually) in
          our communities.
      b. What did your three-step plan look like for becoming active within your community?
      c. Today’s show and share is which
   2. Skills Story – Planning for Our Health (35 Minutes)
      a. Use the attached story to review a health plan.
      b. The story will have a character that decides to create a healthy plan to attain their
          personal health goals
      c. Use attached links to see how individual’s have changed their lives by planning for
          their health
   3. Which planning style have you liked the most (15 Minutes)
          a. Over the last month we have explored planning styles and types in which we
               want participants to utilize both physically and virtually in the future.
          b. Prompt participants to remind them the different types of planning styles and
               planning techniques we’ve gone over
          c. If needed, review

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Thursday January 28th
Rights & Self Advocacy

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Friday January 29th
Knowledge & Fun
Objective 01: When presented with topics from Calendar month (previous weeks) participants
will identify and answer questions while using a quiz-based identification game.

   1. Check in – Show & Share (20 minutes)
         a. Review the Month and all topics covered
         b. What was an aha moment?
         c. What would you like to see more of in the future?
         d. What would you like to see less of?
   2. End of month activity (30 minutes)
         a. Using the activity provided online, explore different topics that we’ve covered
             using a quiz style game.
         b. Discuss that next week we will be exploring the topics of relationships and
             setting boundaries both with our loved ones and ourselves
         c. Our Monday Show & Share topic will be something or some one around us that
             we consider important and why

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