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Thanks to the Hard work of Jim Jahnz and the other council people, a victory has been won for the group home on Southwich Drive! From the projo: "amilies of several adults with severe retardation won a reprieve today. The families are fighting an effort to close their Lincoln group home. The two sides in the matter emerged from a meeting in Superior Court Judge Netti C. Vogel's chambers with an agreement that the home will remain open while the families and their lawyer have a grievance heard by the state Department of Mental Health, Retardation and Hospitals. Today's developments do not yet guarantee the Lincoln home will stay open, but the lawyer for the families cast it as a win. The adults have lived together for 25 years in the same group home in Lincoln and don't want to be moved to another home in Smithfield. The judge's message was there is an appeal process, go through it and see what the process produces before closing the home." See the how story HERE
From today's Projo story by Kia Hall Hayes..
Advocates for four adults with severe retardation who have lived together for 25 years in the same group home in Lincoln are fighting an effort to move them to another home in Smithfield.
It’s the same battle that was fought �" and won �" 12 years ago.
Beth Keeling, the home supervisor, says closing the home would devastate the men and women who live there.
“They know home, they want home, they sign for home,” she said.
The state Department of Mental Health, Retardation and Hospitals first closed the adults’ Southwick Drive home, in Lincoln, in 1995 and moved the group to a home on Rogler Farm Drive in Smithfield to save $100,000. Read More »
Advocates for four adults with severe retardation who have lived together for 25 years in the same group home in Lincoln are fighting an effort to move them to another home in Smithfield.
It’s the same battle that was fought �" and won �" 12 years ago.
Beth Keeling, the home supervisor, says closing the home would devastate the men and women who live there.
“They know home, they want home, they sign for home,” she said.
The state Department of Mental Health, Retardation and Hospitals first closed the adults’ Southwick Drive home, in Lincoln, in 1995 and moved the group to a home on Rogler Farm Drive in Smithfield to save $100,000. Read More »
From today's Projo story by Kia Hall Hayes..
Advocates for four adults with severe retardation who have lived together for 25 years in the same group home in Lincoln are fighting an effort to move them to another home in Smithfield.
It’s the same battle that was fought �" and won �" 12 years ago.
Beth Keeling, the home supervisor, says closing the home would devastate the men and women who live there.
“They know home, they want home, they sign for home,” she said. Read More »
Advocates for four adults with severe retardation who have lived together for 25 years in the same group home in Lincoln are fighting an effort to move them to another home in Smithfield.
It’s the same battle that was fought �" and won �" 12 years ago.
Beth Keeling, the home supervisor, says closing the home would devastate the men and women who live there.
“They know home, they want home, they sign for home,” she said. Read More »
Thanks to everyone who came out to the first annual LDTC Earth Day event. It was a great success. Below is a story that ran in today's Pawtucket Times about our efforts. Read More »
HA! So I guess the Republican Town Committee is a little upset that work is being done in town. Well, I guess actually producing gets under their skin! Read Charlie Cox's letter to the editor in today's Breeze~ Read More »
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