Weekends
at Our House of Minnesota:
All residents have Saturdays and Sundays off of Day Program and spend these days
at home and doing community activities. Holidays or other days off of Day
Program are spent this way as well.
Morning:
Weekend mornings are spent getting up between
about 7:30 and 8:30 am. and getting ready
for the day. They have breakfast, get
medications, have a shower or bath if it
is their time in the house schedule to do
so, do morning hygienes such as brushing
teeth, shaving, washing up and getting dressed
and planning activities for the day.
Early Afternoon at home:
Morning routine is complete usually between
9:30 and 10:00 am. Generally, half of the residents will go out into the community before lunch. The
other residents will have their shower or bath
if it is their time in the house schedule to
do so, or find an in home activity to do such
as play a game, listen to music or read the
newspaper or a magazine.
Lunch:
is prepared by staff (residents can assist
if they have time and are able in parts of
meal preparation) and served between 12:30
and 1:00 p.m. on weekends. Same with
dinner, weekend lunch meals are planned for
every day of the week and on a 7 week rotation
so residents are served a wide variety of nutritious
balanced meals.
Late Afternoon:
Around 2:00 p.m. the residents who did not have an opportunity to go out into the community before lunch will go out (see “Out & About”) with one staff. The other residents will stay home with the other staff and find activities to do at home, or participate in individual programs and goals. Residents will have the opportunity for a light afternoon snack around 3 or 3:30 p.m. and on Sundays will participate in making their lunches to take to work for the next day. Staffing will usually switch at 4:00 p.m. where the second staff shift of the day will come on to relieve the first shift. Once the second shift of staff come in, half of the residents will participate in another community outing, while the other half will stay home for in house activities. On weekends there is more time for them to participate in cleaning their rooms and other such activities that time does not permit during the week. Residents at home will have their shower or bath if it is their time in the house schedule to do so.
Dinner:
is prepared by staff (residents can assist if they have time and are able in parts of dinner preparation) and served between 5:30 and 6:00 p.m., the same as weekdays.
Evening:
The other half of the residents who did not go out before dinner will go out into the community after dinner (see “Out & About). If the evening is spent at home, residents will choose in home activities such as playing a game, watching television (this is not usually a before dinner activity), listening to music, or reading a newspaper or magazine. They will complete individual programs or goals that were not done during the rest of the day or have their shower or bath if this is their time in the house schedule to do so. Bedtime:
Residents usually begin to prepare for bed beginning about 8:30 or 9:00 pm depending on preference and wake up time the next day the same as on weekdays. At this time they will put on pajamas, get bedtime medications, and do bedtime hygiene routines such as brushing teeth, washing up, and taking down laundry to be washed, and preparing for the next day: setting clothes out, preparing for the weather etc. |
