[nagdu] employment and guide dogs

[Angie Matney]

Hello Wayne,

The state agency for the blind here in Virginia has a similar program--or, at least, they did when I worked there. I never took advantage of it, though: I worked with Glaze the entire time I was at that agency.

Angie

On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:45:54 -0600, wcmerritt at gmail.com wrote:

>For those that work at a state or government agency, there may be
>provisions for taking time off in getting a guide dog. At Texas state
>agencies, such as the state training center I work at, they have such
>provisions, stating that they would cover the first two weeks of my
>training and then I had to use my personal time. I was prepared to
>cover the whole thing, all 3 weeks, with personal time but when I
>found out about the special "assistance dog training" category of
>leave, I was very glad for it. That meant that I had to pick up the
>last week of my 3 weeks of training with personal time, which was only
>40 hours rather than the 120 hours I thought it would be. Perhaps
>other state/governmental agencies have something like that as well.

>Wayne