Among her many acticivites, Sheenagh Morrison enjoys taking care of the animals at Beacon Hill Children’s Farm in Victoria.

Inside Voice
The Self-Advocate’s Perspective

Living a busy fulfilling life
By Sheenagh Morrison

My name is Sheenagh Morrison. Let me tell you a little bit about myself.

I’m a self-advocate living in Victoria. I also live on my own. I am in the Supported Apartment Living Program through Community Living Victoria. I’ve been in my own place for six years now.

I live in my own apartment and I get support from community support workers with cooking and cleaning. There are ten of us in the supported apartment living program. We have dinners together, we go to movies and we have games nights where we play board games together. We have parties at Christmas time with our families and friends.

I work at the Thrifty Foods in Hillside. I started off as a janitor and now, after talking with my supervisors, I am a courtesy clerk. I also do radio ads for them and I’m also on the Smile Team for events in the community. I have been there for almost two years.

I am a swimmer on the Victoria Special Olympics team and I have been on that team for eight years now. I’m an advanced swimmer on the team.  

I also love hanging out with friends and going out for coffee or a meal and walking dogs with my exercise buddy from Recreation Integration Victoria.

My exercise buddy and I meet once or twice every week and we have become friends. When it’s cold, we go to a movie or bake cookies.

I also work at Beacon Hill Children’s Farm. I’ve been there for five years now. I started off as a volunteer and now I am paid staff. At the farm I do everything from cleaning out the barns to delivering baby goats. That was a great experience.

I also help out with out trips to seniors’ homes where we take the baby animals to see the seniors.

Just keep working hard and you will reach your goals. If you put your mind to what you want to do you can accomplish it. I worked to reach my goals of living independently and finding paid work and my dreams came true.



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