Draft:Las Vegas ADHD and Autistic Young Adults Hangouts! - LVAYAH community

"Las Vegas ADHD and Autistic Young Adults Hangouts!" aka LVAYAH, is a Facebook and Instagram community with a main purpose in mind: to directly impact the well-being of ADHD and Autistic young adults in Las Vegas, by providing a space to socialize, meet up and hang out, and make friends, aiming to fulfill the social needs of neurodivergent folx.

Jinx Follestone (age 21) is the organizer and admin of the community and Facebook groups of LVAYAH, the first group being for ages 21-28 (made on March 8th of 2024), and the second LVAYAH group being for ages 18-21 (made on March 9th of 2024).

LVAYAH is not an official organization, but is in the process of registering as a nonprofit organization to receive funding for its purpose and mission. LVAYAH is still in the startup phase, and doesn't have many members at the moment, but is beginning to build connections and hopes to create partnerships to be able to spread the word of itself better to those who really need its type of community and support.

[LVAYAH lists its non-personal official email and phone number on its official flyer on social media, call times are 9am-6pm, Mondays to Fridays.]

LVAYAH currently lacks any type of funding.

Note from admin: "Due to lack of funding, we're unable to make outbound calls from LVAYAH's official number at the moment. So please either call us from your end, and if we don't reply, call back later, or email us and we will get back to you shortly. Also, we're still working on setting up a voice message to play to the color for if we can't answer the phone at that moment."

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LVAYAH requires all of its members to join out of their own will and desire. It does not allow parents to join on behalf of their children and it also does not accept into its groups supporters who do not have ADHD and/or Autism. Only autistic and/or ADHD young adults can join, as stated in the title. All members of LVAYAH must be aged 18-21 or 21-28 and in the corresponding group.

LVAYAH members and guests invited to hangouts must be responsible for their own support needs or bring someone to support them with their needs, and must be able to socialize to some extent and create connections and relationships and think at an adult level, aka matured thinking. Any mental ages below 18 are not allowed in the group. This is not to be confused with the person's physical age, but a person's physical age also must be 18 or older to join the LVAYAH community.

Any young adults with ADHD or Autism who also have any additional abilities are welcome in the LVAYAH community. Although, due to the groups' lack of funding, it is very limited on accommodations it's able to provide. For anyone who is Deaf or nonverbal who signs, the admin requires those persons to bring their own interpreters to events and hangouts if they need and/or want one.

LVAYAH outwardly recognizes that it's not perfect and has much to improve on as it's only in the startup stage, so the admin asks its members and anyone else willing to provide feedback on how it can improve, and even tips for what to expect for upcoming challenges it may have.

The admin has said that once LVAYAH has 7 members including the admin and his siblings, it will have a celebratory hangout taking place in April or May. And once it has funding, he plans to have better locations to host its hangouts at.