Josh/getting services

This is a little history about our attempts to get various social services lined up for Sandy's autistic son Josh. There have been three major phases so far.

In Phase I, roughly 2002-2003, we were able to get Josh signed up with The Durham Center which gave us access to respite care at a greatly reduced cost, through The Arc of Durham. We had one respite person (Kristine) whom the two younger kids were quite fond of (they still mention her even now) and who would confirm availability via email. Unfortunately, she went off to go to law school and became unavailable. For awhile, we tried to establish a relationship with some of the other respite workers who were available, but it just didn't seem to flow as smoothly. On one notable occasion, we had made arrangements for two overnight sessions so we could go out of town to take care of some urgent business, and then at the last minute it turned out there had been a miscommunication and the controller (?) had only booked us for two days, with one night between them. We had to postpone the trip, which caused a lot of problems later (see 2003-10-16 SvsG Emails).

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