Facility Profile
The
following is a true story, though names were changed or removed.
New home, new hope.
A new community provides independence and care for the developmentally
disabled.
For 49-year-old Hugh—who loves fishing and baseball but sometimes throws a temper tantrum when asked to eat his vegetables—being able to live at the new Residence by the lake is a triumph.
It almost was not so. Twelve years ago, the County Board voted to phase out the institution that had been home to those with profound developmental disabilities, including mental retardation, since about 1955.
The action followed the national trend to de-institutionalize disabled people to smaller group homes throughout the community.
However, a group of parents and others spoke up, and the County Board listened. Today, advocates celebrate a new $5 million town-home community for people with profound developmental disabilities, mental retardation and complicated medical and behavioral problems.
The three institutional buildings were replaced by eight stand-alone town homes on the bank of the la
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