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[WildCelt]

Have you checked out your state Protection and Advocacy organization? They can be very helpful in matters like the one you mention. I don't know in which state you reside, but here in Michigan our P&A system is quite strong (and, incidentally, aggressive--they are the agency with whom I had the run-in when I first started).

Even with their faults (like all government established programs), they are a decent organization, and can do good things for people.

Here is the national organization, that should at least point you in the right direction:
http://www.protectionandadvocacy.com/

 

[Plan 9]

If our state, Missouri, has any such state agency, my phone book has never listed it, and I have never heard of it. My cousin worked as legislative assistant to an honest and canny state senator for a number of years, and never directed me to it, either, even though one of his jobs was to provide alternatives for constituants asking for help.
I'll check out your link, though. Thank you. I appreciate it!

I agree with you that no government organi

 

[Plan 9]

eek! I can't check it out; the site contrast is too high.

 

[WildCelt]

Here's the site for P & A in MO: http://www.moadvocacy.org/

 

[Plan 9]

Thank you, O Wild One. I hope my disability allows me to access this site. ROTFL!

 

[Plan 9]

No, it doesn't, but I think I know where the phone number is now. I can get it later, then wait until I'm over that, call them, and pray I can make myself understood. Thank you again.

 

[WildCelt]

You are most welcome!

 

[Plan 9]

Giving away a secret like That? How could you?? and you call yourself a social worker!

Actually, I have a couple of very nice ones...

Goffman explains that everyone involved with an institution is equally subject to institutionalization, and I think that this can apply to folks working in governmental jobs. Sometimes I'm not a person, but a faceless problem to be handled within strict guidelines, by someone with too heavy a caseload, with unsufficient funding, and far too much paperwork.

I am a bit worried, from what I was able to read on that site, that I'm going to fall between two stools again. Sometimes I'm neither fish nor fowl...and I'm mixing my metaphors again. Sheesh!