Shawn got a Job Internship!

June 8th I had to take Shawn his medication refills and when I got there he was on his way out to a Job Interview, so I grabbed a quick picture and wished him luck. He called me later that day and excitedly told me that he got the job. It is an internship for now, not a paid position, but if he does well with job coaching it could lead to a permanent part time position after the summer.
Shawn has been doing well in the Summer Bridge program, but he has had some struggles. He lost his keys sometime during the first week of the program and they aren't sure where he last had them. Saturday this week he lost his wallet with his IDs, insurance cards, and money, they think he lost it on an outing with PARA, so they are working to get in touch with someone to check on it. We are hoping that they find it since it has all his information in it. He also managed to disable the iPad that has his Visual Schedule and Spending software on it, so we had to set that back up, this time I made a backup after it was set up.
Shawn has been living on campus for two weeks now. When we saw Shawn after the first week, he asked if he could come home for a visit. So we scheduled to check him out for this past Sunday. Unfortunately the visit was both sad and happy, one of our dear friends that Shawn considered to be an uncle suffered a cardiac event and seizure last week and was on life support on Sunday. So we took Shawn to the hospital to say good bye. He was very upset to loose his good friend. We stayed at the hospital a few hours visiting with our friends that had also come to say good bye, Shawn got to see some people he has missed while he has been in the Summer Bridge program. And he received many congratulations, so Shawn being here helped others to see some good in the world. We then went home and Shawn played video games for a while and spent time with us. He picked where we had dinner and then went back to the dorm. The short visit seems to help his homesickness as he was happy to be back at his dorm and hang out with his friends. They were grilling out on the back porch since it was such a nice day which Shawn loved, plus he got a second dinner.
Monday he started his new job internship, he didn't call me so I don't know how his first day went but I hope he will tell us all about it when we talk to him next.
#smallthingsLeadToBIGTHINGS

Thank you for your encouragement and continued support of Shawn.
Jim, Katheryn, and Shawn

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