September 2025
Hi Team, Welcome to September!
Please take the time (up to 30 minutes admin time) to read the newsletter and bring any questions to our upcoming team meeting on Wednesday September 10th @ 11:00.
September 2025 Newsletter
- Thank you to Bryant and Emily for working together to plan and organize our Fall team outing event in SF and thanks to Little Hands for funding this fun event!
- Thank you to our incredible admin team: Isabelle, Kayla, and Emily for coordinating together to make sure operations still ran smoothly during weddings, honeymoons, and vacations!
- Many thanks to Kat Y. for taking on Heartwood Charter and Miller Creek Middle School contracts to support our local public school students.
- To the therapist team: THANK YOU for managing the roller coaster that is fall scheduling and supporting our families!
- Thank you to our directors, Kellie & Cierra, for their invaluable support in helping team members craft ideal caseloads for the upcoming school year. We also truly appreciate your thoughtful guidance and collaboration in creating our team newsletter.
- Meghan and Bryant thank you for creating a clinical observation form for our OT team to help support evaluation skill building and report writing!
- Apraxia walk: Thanks to team members who have already made great strides with fundraising!
- HUGEEEEE Shout out to Isabelle, Emily and Kat donating their LARGE scavenger hunt prize money to the Walk for Apraxia THANK YOU SO MUCH for thinking of us as the beneficiaries and to Michelle and Nish for setting it up and for his company match!
- Thank you Little Hands for sponsoring this amazing event for its 4th year!!
- Thanks to our tireless leader, Cierra, for organizing the teams’ efforts.
- “I’m so tired, I had swim and only slept 7 hours and 29 minutes instead of 11 hours.” (BL)
- Client: Can I have a mirror? Me: For what? Client: I feel really hot and I want to check out my sweat.
- “Why did you get a fancy watch? I like apple watches, fancy watch is a 2/10”
9/27/25 @ 9:00 am (8:30 for setup)
Apraxia is a motor speech disorder that affects the brain pathways involved in producing speech impacting overall speech clarity. (basic description if anyone asks you)
- Please share with school placements
- Coloring contest is an opportunity to discuss/invite families to the walk face to face for increased engagement
- We have a new entertainment this year: Just like Alice IG ; it will either be face painting or giant bubbles AND a balloon twister so make sure to tell your families
- Please respond to the google cal invite so I know who is coming/can help day of and I’ll send out the “jobs” closer to
- Please register if you haven’t yet – even if you’re not sure if you can make it yet
- Who has folding tables we can borrow the day of?
- Reposting from our Instagram and/or LinkedIn, Facebook etc is encouraged!
- Try posting on NextDoor as a community event in your neighborhood
We invite everyone to fill out our Halloween Costume poll as we plan on dressing up to celebrate the holiday with our team/kids on Wednesday, 10/29.
You can now add scoring information into evaluations written in Ensora for the PDMS-3 and BOT-3. If you have any questions, please check in with Kellie.
For insurance and GGRC evaluation/progress reports for OT/Speech, Theresa will acknowledge receipt via email within 48 hours of the report being sent.
Our lead mentors, Meghan and Bryant created a clinical observation form to help streamline the evaluation process/report writing. It is available on the drive and we’ll discuss it a bit more in our team meeting!
Our team meetings are designed to foster collaboration, clinical growth, and connection. These gatherings are a time to:
- Share and discuss challenging cases
- Exchange clinical ideas and strategies
- Strengthen collaboration within our team
To keep our meetings purposeful and supportive, please note:
- Questions about caseload building, policies related to your caseload, or scheduling should be addressed during a 1:1 meeting with a director.
Thank you for helping us keep our team meetings focused, collaborative, and clinically enriching!
Professional Work Behaviors:
At Little Hands, we are committed to fostering a respectful, supportive, and professional work environment. This means abstaining from gossip, negative talk about colleagues, or other behaviors that can impact our team culture. These behaviors are not tolerated, as they do not reflect the values we hold as a team.
- If you have specific concerns or complaints, please bring them directly and privately to a director so they can be addressed appropriately. By upholding these expectations, we ensure a positive environment for both our colleagues and the families we serve.
In addition to the BOT-3 and PDMS-3 online scoring we now have the FAW Online Scoring System- PARiConnect For those OTs that were not in the system, emails were sent out to invite you to the platform. If you have any questions, please check in with Kellie.
We have easily accessible timers spaced throughout the clinic for therapists to use as needed with our kids to support therapeutic presence and limit phone use. Please check in with Kayla if you have any questions.
The Skills Training Manual for Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy in the Google Drive (linked here).
