Who do you prioritise within a group of people with supports? What roles force us into a certain position where we have to set our own needs aside and take care of others needs? How long can you do that for?
What does working as a group look like? How does that work at meal times? How does that work when sharing bathroom times? Are there enough spots for everyone to sit or does everyone want to use the favourite chair? why.
Group goals tend to be about use of resources.
When there are fewer people who have the specific skills to work with an individual or only one person who within the family who has the skills what happens? Do others take on different or more of a certain task repeatedly to lessen the load? Do others learn quick enough to try and help in a way that the main helper can be supported at the same time?
Knowing how to balance the activities within a home and to whom they are directed to is extremely challenging. Especially when the demands come from outside of the home. Within the home itself there might be no difficulties regulating or managing challenges, but those which come repeatedly from outside provide constant distress and may require completely different skill set(s) than those typically used by those within the home.
Constant measurement of how each family member is coping with their own individual demands is essential to be able to integrate each individual back into the family’s ability to work together. Getting alignment of routines, of skills. These are huge demands that need to happen over long periods of time. Key goals often have everyones agreement that this is the priority to work on. Other areas are then often not supported or focused on due to a lack of resources. Planning based on feedback is essential for progress and health.