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| Group-homes
plan in Hanover
February
10, 2011 - Richmond
Times-Dispatch
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Hanover
County will negotiate with Good Neighbor Homes
to establish a public-private partnership to
operate the county's three homes for people
with developmental disabilities.
The Board of Supervisors unanimously endorsed
the choice Wednesday to end a year of concern
among families and advocates of the 12 clients
who currently live in the county-operated facilities.
The county had proposed the change last year
to address budget shortfalls but backed away
after protests. The county budgeted $100,000
from its reserves to keep the homes operating
for another year but asked for
a study of the public-private arrangement.
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of the protesters attended the meeting Wednesday.
Hamilton Holloway, president of the Hanover
Arc Board of Directors, commented afterward
by e-mail, "It is troubling that Hanover
County is continuing to move towards only providing
the bare minimum of services to individuals
with intellectual disability and their families.
We hope that the group home partnership will
not negatively affect people, like the Hanover
County public-private partnership for jobs that
resulted in unemployment for clients."
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Mathew
Marek, executive director of Good Neighbor Homes,
said he had visited the three county group homes
earlier in the day. He said he plans to use
all three homes but eventually may seek a more
accessible building for the two-story Rapidan
House. Residents will remain in the same general
neighborhood, he said. County employees who
work at the homes now will be given preference
in hiring by the new management, he said. John
E. Gordon Jr., who represents South Anna District,
said he had promised to support the public-private
arrangement if it could offer the same service
at a significantly reduced cost. "It appears
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A
Story of Transition |
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The
following is a video interview that was done
about a client from our residential program
Good Neighbor Homes for the VACSB. The video
is an interview with the client’s parents
and their story of transitioning him from a
Virginia State Training Center into our residential
program. |
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