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Think about how this changes online communities, when we know who else is currently online looking at the same page and can be IMed or called at a click of a button.

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GIS Group Co-ordinates at elevation 447 feet (With the network still operational)

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Can you hear me now? Of course, but.....do we want to come back inside? What a beautiful day!!!!!!!!!! ________________________________________________

atnihongo ga tsukaenai!

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Something new, something old, something borrowed, something blue.

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This is the Wiki Sandbox! Here you can play around so you get comfortable with wiki formatting.

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Bryan's social software page

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Is that Skype with a beauty mark?

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"this is a test of monospace font" Steven's Group The history of how the Steven's Center came about is more of a developmental process than an idea. They first started out on Louther Street, known as the Sadler clinic. They were really small and their main focus was social rehabilatation within the group. It was more of a "drop in" and "hangout" center in the beginning. The individuals that are a part of this group are called "members," and it was a place for them to expand socially and learn how to interact in different situations. However, as influential as this might be, the facilatators realized that they needed more of an emphasis on psychological rehabilitation. With the increasing amounts of technology, there is a "new wave" of how to treat disabilities that is being developed. First and foremost, there is the medical model, which incorporates how Doctors and medical figures label a patient as "sick," and that they ultimately know what is best for the patient. Although seeing a doctor and getting medicine is vitally important to your health, there is also another aspect of personal rehabilitation that needs to be accounted for. This is called the recovery model. This type of model portrays how the individual makes their own decisions, and it primarily revolves around the fact of pursuing your individuality -- doing what is best for you. Because of this type of modeling, the Steven's group needed to expand, and that is when they moved to the office near Walmart. The main focus at this clinic is to take back that level of functioning that was stripped away from these members; it is more of a psychological rehabilitation and they learn how to do what is in their best interest moreso than listening to what all the doctors tell them.

Mission The mission of the Steven's Group revolves around three main words: empowerment, confidence, and flexibility. Many of these members have been told that they are worthless, and the mission here is to try to get them to take back their life. The director of this program, Stephanie, wants to give the members a level of flexibility, a chance to arise value within themselves, and feel empowered that they are just as normal as everyone us. That is the key point here...these members are just like the rest of us, except they have different methods of coping. Thus, they want to teach these methods of coping in a way that can empower each member.

Services There are an array of different services provided by the Steven's Group. The first is obviously social rehabilitation, where they learn to build relationships, and improve their social skills. The second service is psychological rehabilitation, where they learn to rebuild their own life based on their own decisions. Also, they have a consumer run hotline service, called "worm line." It is for positive reinforcement. Someone who just needs someone to listen to their problems or to help get them through the day is available by this hotline. Finally there are numerous employement opportunities within the Steven's Group. Many of the members here have not had a job in 20 years, so opportunities for empolyment include, cooking, cleaning, running errands, etc. If you are empolyed by the Steven's Group, you are called a "Member-Employee." It is just a way to slowly incorporate them back into the "normal" life they once had. Also, many workshops are provided for purposes of recovery. For instance, these workshops focus on the individual's talents, so there might be a knitting workshop or a painting workshop, where one could go and really get to explore their hidden talents that never get to be shown to the world. So often, these people devalue and marginalize themselves from the rest of the world and they forget that they actually have talent and worth.