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

Tue Aug 22 03:46:16 UTC 2017

When you talk to Denice, tell her that Rob Kaiser says hello. We went to
Foreman Highschool together. She, I'm sure will be a big help. The Chicago
chapter of the NFB is very big & active. Good luck. I can be contacted here
by phone @(909)292-0040 extn 211. If you can't reach me, & it is an urgent
matter, you will need to call Providence Post Acute. I'll gtet the number
for you either later tonight or tomorrow, & I'll email it to you. 

Again, good luck. Perhaps, the Chicago Lighthouse for the Blind can be of
some help to her. They have really cleaned up their act in the past several
years. 

I hope this is of some help.

Rob Kaiser
Email;
rcubfank at sbcglobal.net

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

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
> Email;
> rcubfank at sbcglobal.net
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Faith-Talk [mailto:faith-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of 
> Ericka via Faith-Talk
> Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2017 12:52 PM
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> <faith-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Ericka <dotwriter1 at gmail.com>
> 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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