[stylist] Where my head is

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I wish I'd had a similar manual when I started my job at Social Services (way back in the dark ages).  So good for you.
I have not been on lately, since I am still dealing with physical problems.  I'm about to review my better than one thousand messages.  (I stayed three days in hospital, under protest, though I did need the treatment.  Just didn't want to be admitted.  Oh well.

Good for you, Robert.

Lori


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Leslie Newman <newmanrl at cox.net>
To: writers nfb <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sat, Nov 26, 2011 8:06 pm
Subject: [stylist] Where my head is


Hi you all:

 

My head has been buried in a series of writing projects that have ---- eaten
up all my spare time and has even made me skimp on some of my home and NFB
duties! (Ever been there?)

 

What I've been doing is --- acting as a mentor for a new vocational
counselor hired by my old employer, the Nebraska Commission for the Blind
and visually Impaired. I've been wrapped up with that for almost 2 months. I
will be spending the next week with her, out in Carney, Nebraska (3 hours
from where I live in Omaha). In assisting her to learn about her job duties,
and to try and instill a super positive philosophy of blindness, I decided
that besides our talking and her observation of me modeling what her job
requires, I decided that it would be helpful to her to have a hard copy
rendition of --- her duties, including short sections of --- well, what to
say! (that was the first document/manual) The second is all about providing
Job Seeking Skill instruction. (Again, I give the steps, then I dramatize
them.) the third document is how to, from the get-go, like at the first
meeting on up through the application, the case acceptance, the development
of the Individualized Plan for Employment, the learning  of blindness
skills, going for vocational training like school, on up to the time to seek
employment, and finally the 90 days of follow-up after the consumer is
employed, then is closed from services.(This to has suggested activities and
wording on how to weave vocational counseling and expectations/ownership ,
into all phases of the consumers time as a client. 

 

It sort of blossomed into a longer stent of writing then I had planned for.
(You know, how some storys just seem to take on a life of their own.) Funny,
I'm getting paid for the mentoring, but not for the writing! 

 

Robert Leslie Newman 

President, Omaha Chapter NFB

President, NFB Writers' Division

Division Website

 <http://www.nfb-writers-division.> http://www.nfb-writers-division.net

Chair, Newsletter Publication committee

Personal Website-

 <http://www.thoughtprovoker.info/> http://www.thoughtprovoker.info

 

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