Morning Meeting

I'll be heading into work a little late today. Instead, I'm sitting here in the early morning hours, going over notes in preparation for a meeting I have this morning with an agency that helps support Sam in his job at the High School. I hoping this meeting goes better than the last one.

I'm sure I've posted about this before, but just in case...

Sam has been with this agency for quite a while but, until last March, he was getting support out of a different office. All that changed when he turned twenty-two and was no longer considered a student. When that happened, his "case" (I hate that term) was transferred to a local branch - and let's just say, the transition was a little bumpy.

One of the great things about the other branch was that they had worked closely with Sam for quite a while. So when they were going on job searches and job interviews with him, they knew him well enough to know what jobs would work well for him - and maybe more importantly, they knew what jobs would not work well for him. More than one job was turned down because they knew it would likely end in disaster - possibly with long term ramifications, at least for Sam.

When he transferred to this new place, even though he was (and is, thankfully) employed, I was (and always will be, I'm sure) worried about what would happen in the hopefully unlikely event that Sam loses his job. How would they be able to support him in finding another job if they didn't know anything about him? I wanted to have a meeting to discuss Sam and to discuss my concerns. But for reasons I will not mention here, (I'm looking at you, Former Director), it did not go well.

Anyway, today is a new day (aren't they all?) and I am sitting here waiting to go to this meeting before heading into work. Today, I hope, it should be easier. It's a New Director - and anyway, I'm "only" going to get some information about another possible program that may, hopefully, benefit Sam.

I hope we all have a good day today.