Our Loved Ones - Called to care - Christa Joy Health & Well-being sereies
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Contemplation of a Carer:This is a wonderful episode that puts a face and names to the life of care.  We have the privilege to share the empowering story of Christa Joy and her wonderful family and their journey to support their amazing son, Jimmy, who is autistic.We'll hear about how their lives changed through the diagnostic process.  How tough choices needed to be made to support care needs and look after the the needs of the family.  Through this, we discuss how Christa developed skills, retrained and set about to create a business aligned to the values to support special kids and their families and how "I wanted to spend the rest of my life helping them find their way and maximize their potential" Christa JoyWe also discuss the importance of building and maintaining bridges between families and educational settings and how managing conflicts and being aware of differing points of views is critical in order to keep the needs of each child as the primary focus.As many know, an issue very close to our hearts, this was such an engaging and topical session.   It's so important to normalise the needs of all children and ensure that care, curriculum and collaboration is always centre stage. Keeping this as a focal point will hopefully enable our beautiful neuro-diverse children to  have the best starts in life and have thriving environments where they can access quality education in whatever forms that may take to have the best outcomes in life.  We celebrate the amazing work that Chrsta Joy is doing to be an amazing carer and contributing in creating outstanding curriculum for educators.To follow Christa and Jimmy's story and to find out more about the work that Christa is doing, please check out these [email protected]:  https://specialneedsforspecialkids.org/Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/specialneedsforspecialkids1/Instagram:  special_needs_for_special_kidsSummer Journey - https://christajoy.lpages.co/join-me-on-my-journey  Updates sent out every Monday.