I met with Peggy O'Brien who is a SCSEP intake person at the El Rio DES Center. Like me, she was surprised that I (and others) had to start all over again with SCSEP and she told me that since Liz Melin left, SCSEP had gone downhill. Peggy said that she was pretty much kept in the dark about what subsidized openings SCSEP had and had been told to mind her own business when she questioned any of the recent decisions by SCSEP. She and Kerry Kemp had looked for the justification for requiring people to start all over in SCSEP and just like me were unable to find any.
Kerry told me that Laura at SCSEP wants to take people off the street and train them to get a job instead of placing anyone in a subsidized position. That might explain why Laura told me that getting a position for me at the U of A was a "low priority."
While I was talking with Peggy, I discovered that on January 3rd, 2011, there were about 15 host agencies and among them there were only 3 or 4 open slots for SCSEP clients. This was about the time I was waiting for SCSEP to look into seeing if I could work for the U of A.
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