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Living Independently: First Place Transition

Academy, Operated by SARRC, Helps at Become

a Reality for ose on the Autism Spectrum

It’s Monday at 8 a.m., which means that Lindsey “I love the friends I have there and I love the supportive
Eaton, 24, is just beginning her workday. She’ll work neighbors and staff. I get along with the neighbors. We
until noon, a er which she’ll take the light rail, a bus
or an Uber to GateWay Community College (GWCC) talk, and I ll them in on how my job went. When I got
for a few classes. Later, she’ll navigate her way home my job I told them and they were so excited for me.
to the apartment she shares with a roommate at 29
Palms, where she’ll clean, check her budget, cook her [Being here] has helped me. I cook my own meals, take
dinner, relax, and talk to her family. the Light Rail or Uber to work, do laundry, live with a
Eaton’s schedule is the same on Wednesdays and
Fridays, but she’s o from work on Tuesdays and roommate. Basically, I’ve become more independent. My
ursdays. ose days, she instead begins her days parents have seen that now rsthand. When I go home
now I do laundry, I cook and I clean!”
CONTINUED ON PAGE 35 — Lindsey Eaton, First Place Transition Academy student

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