Hiring Assistants - Threenager in charge!

Our family needs help!  We are unable to work and pay our bills without assistance with Ellie.  We are struggling.  Ellie needs full care 24/7 and during travel she needs two people with her at all times, one to drive and a caretaker to make sure she's safe and breathing well.  Without help, Jeff and I must both be home to take Ellie to preschool and appointments.

I work from home most days but I cannot focus on my work and entertain Ellie and care for her needs while I work.  It seems that I've only given partial attention and effort to so many aspects of my life because I have no choice but to multitask.  I want to feel like I'm succeeding at something and to do that, I need to be able to focus and single-task while at work and while caring for and playing with my children.  Jeff is dying to get back to work.  He's desperate to get back to work he loves and using his engineering and design skills to build stuff in the shop.  Jeff is a great dad and I know he loves time with our kids as much as I do but we aren't feeling fullfilled or successful because we aren't able to do the work we want to do to support ourselves and our family and to help our communities.

Volunteers are welcome however, we are able to recruit paid help.  What we need is reliable help.  We need fill-in private duty nurses to hire at Health Call, LPNs and RNs.  We need respite care help and community living supports.  Respite and CLS are hired through Washtenaw County Community Mental Health.  The application process and training are fairly simple.  There are no education requirements to be hired as a respite care or CLS employee.  As a family, we need people who are patient with children, reliable, and can learn new skills.

Jeff and I, with support of family and friends, have been working hard (while we multitask childcare, building a home and caring for two homes) on a startup business, Savor Life Adapted, and on overhauling my nutrition consulting business, Savor Life Nutrition.  We're driven and commited to helping people with families like ours.  We're developing products and programs to help people simplify things in life that the average Joe never has to think about. We feel people shouldn't have to adapt so much to their environments but environments should adapt to people.  It's time to celebrate diversity and who we are instead of trying to change ourselves to fit.  It's just not always medically possible to change ourselves.

Anyway, if you're interested in spending time with us and helping out, please send an email.  If you know someone who might be perfect, please share this post with them.  If you don't know anyone but you want to help, please share this on social media, to your email contacts or on your church bulletin.

Thanks for helping!

To ask more questions or to apply email Courtney: [email protected] or send a message on Facebook.