Friday, November 14, 2008

change

As all of you Tenley has been attending the Young Adult Program in Goshen, since she graduated High School.
Well she has had a very big change take place in a very short period of time.

As most of you know, a year ago she was told she was to advanced to recieve the help she would need to live on her own. We then got in contact with our state representive, who got another ball rolling for her. She went through alot of testing last month. We were hoping she would qualify for this waiver. Well Wednesday afternoon, I recieved a call saying she qualified! We were so excited( but then came the bad news), she couldn't attend the Young Adult Program any more. She would have graduated in April of 2009. But we had to tell her Thursday evening that Friday would be her last day. Needless to say there were many tears shed, by all four of us. Then we all talked about how this will be a good next step for her.
She will be home doing nothing for 3-6 weeks until we are contacted again and start setting up her new program.

Today was a Happy and sad day.
When her bus driver Mr. Erb came to pick her up we took pictures of the two of them. He has been her driver since she was in sixth grade. He was shocked but very supportive. He told her he was going to miss her and loved her.
Everyone at the Young Adult Program was very supportive. They all told her how much they were going to miss her and loved her. She got all of their address's, phone numbers and email address.
So starts a new Chapter in the life of Tenley Yoder.

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