O.F Developmental Services, LLC

07/03/2024

2023 concluded my services representing Region 5 in Georgia’s Division of Family and Children Services -governor appointed position for the State Advisory Board.

Child Welfare and family well-being are still important. However new priorities are data, mediation, and housing security.

The Division’s State Advisory Board reviews and make recommendations regarding issues relating to the protection of children and the welfare and public assistance functions of the Division.

15/01/2023

Happy New Year! 2 weeks into 2023.
This year we can look forward to continuation in our gymnastics involvement and advancement with permanency mediation training, where we are developing the skills and knowledge of children, parents, families and partners to come to agreements in the name of housing.
We may let rest the project: reflections of nutrients, as a primary focus this year.

12/03/2021

I've been playing with my pencil. Check me out:
A children story of smoke, fire & flight.

Hit me up for the link to order a single or a stack of fables. This design is pamphlet size- perfect for classrooms, health facilities, and other places youth gather.

03/03/2021

Fugerson's $5 Fable!!!
I said this year would be the year I would start developing my craft as a viable author. I'm starting small to get going and build some skill. Hit me up for the link to order a copy or some. This design is pamphlet size- perfect for classrooms, health facilities, and other places young folks gather.

22/12/2020

✌https://www.aecf.org/blog/young-leaders-tackle-root-causes-with-results-count-tools/

Giving attention to individuals of systems...

"For example, to develop a strategy for connecting older youth with caring, supportive adults, the young people considered that some staff may have mental models about older youth that assumed their behaviors needed to be controlled or punished. This led them to identify child welfare staff valuing permanent connections for older youth as a factor that would make a difference in how older youth fare as they emerge from foster care. Connections are critical to ending the pipeline of older youth exiting foster care without the permanent relationships that can help them navigate adulthood. Thanks to factor analysis, the Jim Casey Initiative will be teaming with the North Carolina site in 2021 on a practice model that centers continuous quality improvements for recruiting, training and supporting staff who work with older youth in care, among other elements."

A tool known as factor analysis is sharpening the ability of Jim Casey Young Fellows to identify the factors that make the difference in how young people fare as they emerge from foster care. Read more.  

14/09/2020

"Acknowledgements

NASW would like to acknowledge the contributions of Joan Morse, Jamie Bennett and Alexandra Lohrbach to the development of this curriculum. We also thank Sixto Cancel for his audio recording and are grateful to Dr. Octavia Fugerson, Nyeelah Inniss, Maria Garin Jones and Dr. Abyssinia Washington Tabron for providing invaluable feedback as part of the curriculum design committee."

Founded in 1955, the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is the largest membership organization of professional social workers in the world, with more than 120,000 members. NASW works to enhance the professional growth and development of its members, to create and maintain professional sta...

23/07/2020

Here I share the story of engaging documentation of my family's story, and how youth who come from a similar background may be inspired by engaging their family's documentation as well.

"The history, values, and ideas gained from engaging family - or one of shared origins, provides support that informs and inspires. Family documentation influences one's technique or style and connects one to a shared experience, against an uncertain world. Insight related to where one's dreams and motivation is likely to arise, with one's understanding of self, especially when rooted in a collective, such as family - or the historical socioeconomic status of an ethnic group. While the field of child welfare made it clear that I stood apart in society, based on my life's experiences, my family shared information that brought relativity, a sense of belonging, and greater understanding of my capabilities and place within a collective I identified with. To have access to information about my family- from my family, was to have a broader, more empowering, perspective of my living situation and my definition of self. For me, family's documentation provided a knowledge of self, rooted in moral, social and spiritual principles that informed and inspired my natural ways of being. It is that empowerment and passion for positive youth development that encourages me to share the benefits of family documentation for displaced, or disconnected youth- such as youth who have experienced foster care, homelessness, juvenile delinquency or migration."

https://drtaytoldya.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-importance-of-family-documentation.html

01/02/2020

Disconnected Youth Require Gifted Education Services Too.

28/12/2019

offers an interesting health perspective - highlighting discomfort, unhappiness, or revulsion for the benefit of becoming aware, promoting activity, encouraging conversation/exchange and healing or growing.

28/12/2019

represent pieces of reflections of wellness that rise naturally, or in leisure.

16/12/2019

Salutations!!!! Please be patient with me as I build this site. I look forward to serving your interests - and continually expressing my knowledge, sharing my passion & wit, and serving my purpose, by paving a path towards wellness for those who face the ills of humanity. I look forward to projecting my professionalism and serving the health and wellness desires of our community. 🙏Peace be with you.