Today's Brief Updates

Back in this post, I mentioned that there was a possibility that Sam may have found a job. Unfortunately, when Sam and his job coach called back to find out the status of the position, they were told that the position had been filled.

On Monday, I spent the better part of the day, dealing with the situation regarding SSI (and I see that I still haven't deleted that post- another broken promise.) After repeatedly calling SSI and finally getting through to an actual human being, I found out what the next step is to reinstate Sam's claim -  or at least, possibly reinstate Sam's claim. I think this may have to wait until the IEP meeting.

I no sooner got done with the SSI phone call, when Sam came home from another session with his job coach. He told me that the woman who he spoke to about the position before had called back to see if he was still interested in it. His coach helped him return the call and set up a time to try out the position. Apparently, because of this, he got to ring the bell at the Career Center - twice.

In response to a follow up phone call on this, yesterday, he went with Helaina to pick up a packet of forms which he needs to fill out for this position (whatever it is.) Helaina and Sam filled out and returned the paperwork for his background check (so they can make sure that he's not a violent criminal.)  Last night, Sam and I spent an hour or so, working through the bulk of the other forms.

Later today, he'll be going over to the school with his job coach to spend a couple of hours, in what sounds like training for this (unnamed) position. Assuming this works out, he'll be going back again on Friday.

Until then, it's back to holding my breath.

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Late update: Sam called me at work this morning to let me know that someone from the school called and had to cancel his tryout for today.  This resulted in the usual flurry of emails (on my part) to try and coordinate this blip. All is well (I think.) The tryout for Friday still stands.

Oh, and I received another seven page form to fill out today - relating to Sam, but unrelated to the prospective job. So, at least I have something else to occupy time.