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WINTER NEWSLETTER
Staff Check-In
Chris Perdziola, Resource and Support Specialist
Calls, texts, messages, and emails continue to stream into Autism Connection's platforms, and Chris has been busy providing individual assistance to adults and families across Pennsylvania.
Ongoing themes include adult diagnosis, services for children and adults, educational settings, social connections, and housing.
If you need support, information, resources, advocacy, or simply someone to talk to, please reach out. We're here for you.
Kelle Abram, MS., Crisis and Support Case Manager
Kelle spent a very intense day in court with someone who was obsessing and very upset since an incident that happened many years ago. It’s been a wild ride involving an alcoholic lawyer who took his money and didn’t defend him. He struggled to dump said lawyer who refused to get off the case so he could get a new one. And a new lawyer public defender who stepped in, then stepped out. So he’s been on maybe his fifth attorney?
Finally he got a new lawyer and had an actual resolution to his case after so many hearings and postponements. Kelle’s taken on this case which has been extremely challenging due to his autism and head injury and anxiety and guilt and fear.