[nabentre] Grants or assistance to send our blind employee to the Louisiana School for the blind?

[Brandon Keith Biggs]

Hello Bruce,
So should we write an ultimatum or note saying:
We give until September 2016 for the employee to obtain skills in
performing her professional responsibilities. If said skills are not
satisfactorily obtained, we will move to termination.

and she can give that to DOR and say that this is what we gave her? Then
can ask if she can be put on a job retention plan?
Will DOR pay her $3500 a month?
Thank you,



Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Sexton, Bruce via nabentre <
nabentre at nfbnet.org> wrote:

>
> I am not an expert, but I have heard that DOR can pay a person's wage while
> they are in training. They should be able to open a DOR case most easily
> under a job retention plan. Job retention plans are for people in his exact
> position. Someone who has recently closed their case and need training to
> retain their job.
>
> Please contact me for more information that I may be able to help with.
>
> brucefsexton at gmail.com
>
> Best,
> Bruce
>
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> Keith Biggs via nabentre
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> Subject: [nabentre] Grants or assistance to send our blind employee to the
> Louisiana School for the blind?
>
> Hello,
> We hired a blind employee and as they started working, they realized that
> doing everything with vision gave them huge headaches, so medically they
> need to relearn everything without vision.
> I am too busy to teach them the skills they need to know myself, so we are
> looking to send them to the Louisiana School of the blind to do the NFB
> program down there this summer.
>
> We are going to see if they can reopen DOR to pay for the school itself,
> but
> is there any way that we can keep paying our employee while they are
> learning these skills? They have a family and cutting their pay would make
> it impossible for them to go to the program.
>
> I'm not sure how long the program lasts, but our employee gets around $3500
> a month.
> Does anyone know of any kind of tax incentive or grants we can get to help,
> if not completely, cover this cost?
> Thanks,
>
> Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>
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