A Buckhead bakery gives adults a community after high school
Wonderfully Made at Peachtree Church bakes about 20,000 cookies a year with adults with intellectual disabilities, including Troy Millikan, known as T-Dog.
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Wonderfully Made, a bakery at Peachtree Church in Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood, is a weekday community for adults with intellectual disabilities after high school ends, CBS News Atlanta reported. Participants bake about 20,000 cookies a year. Troy Millikan, known as T-Dog, is one of them.
The program is built for the years after school services stop and a lot of structured days disappear. Baking gives people a room to be in and a result they can see in a box of cookies. The count, about 20,000 a year, is the scale of that ordinary work.
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Wonderfully Made is a bakery at Peachtree Church in the Buckhead part of Atlanta. It is a place for adults with intellectual disabilities after high school, when a lot of school-day structure goes away. The people there bake about 20,000 cookies a year. Troy Millikan, whose nickname is T-Dog, is one of them. They mix, bake, and pack cookies with staff and volunteers. The cookies are the work people can see. The bigger point is a regular community, with friends and a job to do, after graduation.
- Why might the years after high school feel empty if every program stops?
- What can a shared job, like baking, give someone besides a paycheck?
- What is a small way a class could welcome an adult who wants to belong?
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