[Grady Clay]

Jake,

It is pretty clear to me that he isn’t capable in this situation. His focus is to not freeze to death and have something to eat. Last week, all he had to eat were some flour tortillas! He is a skinny ghost of a person. His digestive system is distressed from yesterday’s feast.


Ryan; You are to be commended. Your unsung efforts probably made a huge difference in some young persons’ lives. Good for you.


Guys; I could use help with several areas:

- CPAs dealing with the IRS. While some pro bono representation would be great, just keeping me pointed in the right direction will help LV. I’ll be the “responsible party”.

- Some pointers about people of documented limited mental capacity dealing with the legal system would be of benefit to me.

- Who has knowledge dealing with the SSA and a county department of “Human Services”? I’m in uncharted waters. I need help to even know what the services that are possibly available.

- The legal issues. It appears he has been trampled by the “system.”


I know that some on the OT Forum will criticize the situation as taking advantage of our social conscience and how bad social welfare is. I don’t think so. I think this some of the best of our society. I think it is our (I mean all of us) collective responsibility to find an ongoing resolution. The alternative seems to be to let NV fail, be incarcerated and we (collectively) pay huge sums for that. I feel that is unnecessary. There are better choices.

Here is a “kid” (birth date spring ’73 RS) who needs help. Do we walk away? I don’t think so.

Best,
Grady