Many opportunities are made available to the participants of Thatcher Brook Center's Fundamental Life Skills Program which enable them to have the skills to live life as independently as possible.  The Thatcher Brook Center staff creates a monthly calendar, broken into different groups of participants, and the scheduled days events include different skills and outings suggested by the participants of the program.  We feel that it is imperative to the program to receive feedback from the participants on what they would like to see on the monthly calendars, because it is ultimately their program and it should be filled with things that they want to learn, see and participate in.  Our calendars have included some of the following:

• Planning, shopping for, preparing & cooking a meal
• Volunteering
• Visiting and taking part in local art shows
• Tours of local businesses
• Going to the local YMCA
• Library trips
• Planning a local bus trip, to include locating the bus schedule and finding out where the bus will pick up and drop off for the planned destination
• Money management
• Personal care, to include laundry, excercise, nutrition & hygiene
• Extracting Honey

We strive to have fun on a daily basis!  Some of the outings we have taken have included:

• Beach & park trips
• Taking the ferry to Peaks Island
• Bowling
• Going to the Mall
• Nature Walks
• Apple Picking
• Visiting an Alpaca farm
• Eating lunch out
• Visiting friends