Change

Our daughter, Jill, decided early on that her mantra would be "Change is good".  I always hated change - I don't even like to re-arrange my furniture.  Nevertheless, change happens, and there is nothing we can do to stop it,
We are, in fact, changing.  We started out as "Atkinson Group Home", and then when we were more than one group home that name didn't seem fitting.  So, we changed to "Atkinson Youth Services", and that worked well for quite a while.  Recently, we could see that that name limited us, and didn't say what we are really interested in or what we actually do.  So, now we are "Atkinson Family Services".
Change continues.  Originally we were family group homes, and that worked wonderfully well for over 20 years.  However, times change and family group homes weren't viable any more, so we had to change again.  We have moved our structure to group homes with 6 children, a ratio of 2:6 staff along with an administrator and a social worker who work very hard to keep the family value and feel in the group homes.
Change continues.