William “Randy” Brown was a West Virginia Division of Rehabilitation Services referral to Job Squad.  Randy had previously worked in a sheltered workshop setting in Pennsylvania from 1973 to 1995.  He was hired by Job Squad as an “on-call” Mail Clerk in September of 2006.  In this position, Randy was called in to assist with bulk mailing which included hand sorting and folding.  Staff encouraged Randy to try working around the mail machine but Randy said that someone had once told him that he was unable to work around machines and he was hesitant to work around the mail sorter.  Consequently, he worked very few hours until JSI Presort Mail moved to a new location in 2008. The move brought increased work and Randy’s help was desperately needed.  He agreed to work the line and pull mail from the mail machine which he had never done before.  After the first few minutes of doing this new work, Randy went to his supervisor, Chris Wilson, and told him that he loved it.  Since then Randy has increased his work hours from just a few days per month to full time, five days a week.  In addition to finding Randy working the with the mail, we oftentimes find him outside picking up trash on the street before and after work to help do his part in making Charleston, WV a beautiful place to live and work.  In his free time, Randy stays current with all aspects of government and daily news events and is an avid reader of history books. He has on numerous occasions, written articles for a variety of local newspapers on political and historical topics. Randy has overcome many of the barriers brought on by his disability to become a valued worker and real asset to Job Squad.