excellent holding it together, bud. reporter: lenore begins making frantic calls herself trying to get nick hooked up with an agency that could provide him with adult services. and now we wait til monday. we put that on the list of things to do. here we are right on the brink. and i didn t know how to make it gel. the whole system just didn t make any sense at all. and there s no instruction manual right? no. it depended on who you got on the other end of the phone. i remember making cold calls to 30 agencies and just taking notes like crazy and i look back at the notes and i m like, my god. it was chaos. you re doin all right. reporter: there is one particular program lenore has been desperate to get nick enrolled in before he aged out known as self determination. the government would allocate a certain amount of money for nick and let his family pick and choose how to spend it on services for him at home. but with graduation just a few weeks away, lenore finds out h
and there s no instruction manual right? no. it depended on who you got on the other end of the phone. i remember making cold calls to 30 agencies and just taking notes like crazy and i look back at the notes and i m like, my god. it was chaos. you re doin all right. reporter: there is one particular program lenore has been desperate to get nick enrolled in before he aged out known as self determination. the government would allocate a certain amount of money for nick and let his family pick and choose how to spend it on services for him at home. but with graduation just a few weeks away, lenore finds out he s been wait listed. he has no program to transition to. because the funding is not there and he is stuck on a waiting list. ok thanks, bye bye. reporter: eric s mother mary is deeply concerned about her son s transition too. she s been looking for adult programs for him for years. my short list of things that i thought probably would come through, i m working m
i remember making cold calls to 30 agencies and just taking notes like crazy and i look back at the notes and i m like, my god. it was chaos. you re doin all right. reporter: there is one particular program lenore has been desperate to get nick enrolled in before he aged out known as self determination. the government would allocate a certain amount of money for nick and let his family pick and choose how to spend it on services for him at home. but with graduation just a few weeks away, lenore finds out he s been wait listed. he has no program to transition to. because the funding is not there and he is stuck on a waiting list. ok thanks, bye bye. reporter: eric s mother mary is deeply concerned about her son s transition too. she s been looking for adult programs for him for years. my short list of things that i thought probably would come through, i m working my way through them and i m getting a lot of shut doors. reporter: mary s finding there are few options fo