Defending Jeanine
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The day for the long-awaited Fair Hearing is today! This Hearing had been requested since the repeated disqualifications of 2006, 2007, 2014 and now due to another disqualification in 2015, this last Appeal was acknowledged with the date set for today! Rather than denying the Appealed disqualifications or acknowledge the requests for a Hearing in the previous years, the Agency's personnel simply ignored all of those Appeals!
A telephone conference, referred to by the Agency as the "Preparation for Hearing," was held first with several representatives of theirs present and one stating their reasoning for why my daughter, Jeanine, with disabilities, did not qualify for oversight services with their Agency. Their staff psychologist, Dr. Dennis Perry, made statements that I firmly and repeatedly disputed. As he continued making his claims in regard to a "Skills Test" implemented in December, 2006, I continued confronting Dr. Perry with the truth as I knew it to be. Since I was present that day in December, 2006, and no one else present on this day of the Preparation for Hearing was present then, I positively knew Dr. Perry was incorrect or purposely misguided. With that conflict, the Coordinator decided the Preparation for Hearing was over. It was then I heard a woman stating loud and firmly, "We'll require the District Attorney General's office for this Hearing!"
Jeanine's daughter, Jill, with her husband, Sean, drove Jeanine and me to the state office where the Fair Hearing was to be held. I was afraid of driving and Jeanine was told we would pick her up at a certain time and for Jeanine being able to see her daughter, who was not raised by Jeanine, was a real treat for her. Jeanine didn't actually understand what it was all about and she frowned when I mentioned the Agency's name that was the purpose for the Hearing. Jeanine was dressed nicely with the usual fake flower in her hair somewhat matching her clothing colors. She looked cute like a little girl, though in a much larger body.
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About the Book
This is the story of a determined mother's struggle with a state agency which was established to provide care and oversight for persons who were intellectually or mentally challenged so they can have a life in society. The agency's methods of determining who should receive their attention varied widely and were very subjective rather than being guided by their own rules. It is also about the sixty years her family worried about why the daughter was so different and couldn't make judgments about husbands, friends, or even take care of her own daughters. She had to be rescued so many times, her family turned away from her.
The daughter's mother and father are at the age where they can no longer take care of the daughter. This is why the state agency became so important. The family had only learned in the last ten years of the extent of the daughter's brain damage from the known birth trauma, and are fearful of what will happen to her without the continuous, extensive-oversight care she has always required to live safely.
About the Author
The Author is a mother in her eighties who spent sixty years defending a handicapped daughter who cannot manage life by herself. The mother is determined, (pressed by age and medical issues), to find some caring oversight so the daughter can survive when she is gone.