More Tales From the Day Program - Missed Meetings and Staffing Changes

I had a meeting scheduled with DC’s program, to go over the particulars about moving him into the new department and to go over how he has been doing there since the move. (See Original Post Here)

My caseworker did show up as did I, but no one else. (Online meeting).

She called the program and was told that the department head was not in that day (if you’ve been here long enough you will know that this is not the first time this has happened).

Everyone else she tried went to voicemail.

We were able to have a quick meeting while we waited for someone to get back to us and finally gave up and will have to reschedule.

DC came home this afternoon with a memo stating that his “boss’s” last day with the program was the day before this scheduled meeting.

I had to take time off from work for this and no one could bother to let people know the meeting was cancelled?

I had emailed his boss that morning about another matter and thought it was odd that he hadn't gotten back to me. I had just heard from him a few days earlier. He was preparing for this meeting and had a question on some of DC's paperwork.

The letter gave a temporary contact email so I decided to forward the email I originally sent to his boss, to her and mentioned how I had to take time off work for this meeting that no one showed up for.

She apologized for the mishap and explained that his boss left so quickly that no one knew about the meeting that was scheduled... except that this person was cc'd on the meeting email AND The Zoom link for the meeting - but we won't go there.

So now after getting DC out of the awful situation he'd been in before he was moved to this department, we have another staff change.

That always goes well.

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It is difficult to explain “his” autism to anyone without resorting to 1000 examples and 1000 stories. So I tell 1000 stories to make clear that there are other sides to autism than the characters seen in TV or movies."

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