Helen wrote:


Our goal is to teach this family how to fish so that they will be fully functional in their new country There are activities that many of us are doing each week that are essential for their orientation to life in Phx.
Recent activities that that are essential to their success include:
-providing them transportation to learn how to return/exchange an item with a receipt
-school lunch routine
-interpreting the dress code at Cortez
-providing assistance in customer complaint with telephone provider
-encouraging Tika to buy a bike lock at Frys
-job coaching and related activities since these are not being provided to our expectation by LSS
-celebrating the new year with family fun without alcohol
-identifying and using tools
-learning the names of the city streets

Additional/continued help is needed in these areas
-Kamala's English
-one-on-one time with Kamala
-job search for Tika perhaps a record keeping system with business cards from contacts
-budgeting and money management
-letter writing. I am not sure if they have written a letter using the stamps we bought them
-file management--Tika has important papers in several different places need little file cabinet

I guess I could make this a huge list. In summary, I believe our work with this family is a work in progress and we would be remiss if we thought we had accomplished our mission of teaching them to fish,
Helen
P.S. Kathy, missed you in Sunday school class this weekend.

Carla wrote:

Amen.

Re: records management...I provided file folders and purple file box when they arrived. I think the file box has been used for laundry. I have shown them how to use the file folders, wrote the topic on the top of the folder. This apparently needs to be revisited. Perhaps the drawer under the TV would suffice as "data central"?

okay with everyone if I address this with them this weekend and set up more organization? Helen, if you get a business card holder we should ask him to keep it in the same drawer, right? I'll also give him a binder to keep job info in....if at all possible, he should copy (xerox) every application before he submits them. This will help tremendously to avoid recalling the same info for each application and in case he needs to follow up with a company he'll have the app. handy. We could easily access TBC office.....I am sure the office staff would copy for him. He could easily get there on his own as long as we lay the groundwork with the office staff.

Carol has graciously offered to get more shirts for Tara for school. I hit a sale at Kmart this morning and found some blouses for the girls. Now they actually will have enough for five days of acceptable clothing. Such a bummer the rules are so tight, but I can understand the school's need to draw a line.