[Faith-talk] Another leg of the journey for Jenni

[Ericka]

I just found out who the president of the Illinois NFB is. I spoke to Jenni and we're going to try to contact her this week. I agree with you Rob that if Illinois can't get their act together to start school on time everything else must be affected by the budget crisis. I still think that people could be nicer when they give out that information rather than say "hey have you ever thought of moving to Wisconsin?"

She has contacted Catholic charities and might be able to get counseling and possibly some transportation to Chicago. This would allow her to get help from a place called second site which is a nonprofit agency, not state affiliated. I'll keep you posted with Jenny's permission. Denise avant is state president and I think she has a human services division member. For some reason I recognize her name. I think she will be of help. Jenni and I are going to also talk to one of the agencies here in Wisconsin to get information and support too. Just in case things don't follow through in Illinois at all and she ends up having to move up here. With all her extra medical issues she feels that in intensive thing like an NFB training center wouldn't be a good fit for her.

On behalf of Jenni, thank you all for your prayers!

Ericka Short
 from my iPhone 6+

> On Aug 21, 2017, at 8:25 PM, Rob Kaiser via Faith-Talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I wonder if many of those organizations you mentioned are not up & running
> fully do to the Illinois financial crisis. I still think tha the NFB of
> Illinois would be her best bet. I don't know if Rockford has a local NFB
> chapter or not. Rockford is a pretty big city, so they should have @ least a
> small chapter. 
> 
> Rob Kaiser
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: [Faith-talk] Another leg of the journey for Jenni
> 
> Yeah I know it was incredibly horrifying to me! You would think they would
> at least give her the phone number for her local independent living center
> and let them answer her questions. I feel the same way-I just want to call
> and chew their butts out. I know Illinois is in deep financial crisis, but
> it doesn't cost them anything to give her the phone number for Catholic
> charities and other nonprofit, non-state run places that might help. Our
> state calls those centers aging and disability resource centers. They do
> some visiting of people in their homes to check on eligibility for some
> programs, but mainly their job is to answer the phone and send people
> resources for their situation in the most usable format. Most of the time I
> just emailed them and they respond back. I just don't understand Illinois!
> 
> Ericka Short
> from my iPhone 6+
> 
>> On Aug 19, 2017, at 1:19 AM, Joseph Hudson via Faith-Talk
> <faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Oh my gosh Erica, that is one hell of a slap in the face. I might just ask
> her for the phone number to that place and give them a call and give them a
> piece of my advice to them and let them know, how awful that was. They
> definitely need some prayer.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Aug 18, 2017, at 6:08 PM, Ericka via Faith-Talk
> <faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I've been looking for things to help and each organization Jenny calls
> doesn't even seem to have a referral if they cannot help her. She called the
> Council for Independent living and they actually told her "did you ever
> consider moving to Wisconsin?" Now if that isn't a slap in the face or what?
>>> 
>>> Please keep her in prayer! If I had everything but help from an agency
> that I needed I don't know what I would do either. She has a good church and
> friends and obviously a very kind building manager that helps her. If I
> found doctors that I trusted it would be tough for me to uproot and leave
> them as well. 
>>> 
>>> Ericka Short
>>> from my iPhone 6+
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