What is the next step?
Once you have a job offer, the next step is to legalize your employment by becoming provisionally certified. When you have a CE or CEAS and receive a written job offer, you file for provisional certification and then can begin work. In order to file, the employing school must send a letter, on official school letterhead, to the Department of Education stating that you have been hired and including the effective date of hire. The Department of Education then issues the provisional certificate based on the information in that letter. Provisional Certificate is a two-year certificate issued to candidates who have met the requirements for initial employment (holder of a CE or CEAS), and are employed, and are enrolled as part of a state-approved residency leading to standard certification.
This may sound elementary, but you need to be sure that you have a disability for which a companion animal can assist you. This assessment is relatively easy with a physical disability; a person who is in a wheelchair can use a dog to retrieve dropped items. A vision impaired individual can use a dog to guide him or her through the streets. A person with epilepsy can get an assistance animal to warn him or her when a seizure is about to strike.
