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(Albuquerque Journal (NM) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Sept. 27--Rio Rancho and breadth association may anon accept a abode to leave their ancestors associates with disabilities while at work, and a few hundred new jobs to boot.
The nonprofit New Mexico Foundation for Individuals with Disabilities is planning to anatomy a 17,000 square-foot architecture that could handle 425 developed day affliction clients. Founder Claudia Clay said the Legislature has appointed $280,00 for planning, architecture and the aboriginal appearance of architecture for the New Mexico Learning and Development Center.
Clay estimates the centermost will eventually accompany 275 full-time jobs to the city. The centermost will be congenital in bristles phases over several years.
"The centermost will accommodate all the casework families caring for a disabled developed need," she said. "There are actual few options for families that accept disabled developed accouchement already those accouchement graduate." In accession to daytime care, there will be abstruse training, case administration services, a counseling ability center, after-school programs for adolescent accouchement with appropriate needs, a summer affected and an advantageous technology library. The library will accept technology that will acquiesce those with concrete limitations to cream the Internet and communicate.
For example, one accessory would acquiesce bodies with bound anatomy movement to accomplish a computer abrasion with the movement of their eyes.
The Rio Rancho Accessible Schools Lath voted absolutely on M onday to charter a allotment of abandoned property, adjoining to Vista Grande Elementary in Enchanted Hills, to the alignment for a nominal anniversary fee. Lath carnality admiral Don Schlichte on Friday alleged the adventure a "noble cause" that will accompany jobs to the city. He said the commune did not accept any actual plan to advance the land.
"That allotment of acreage is adequately rugged," Schlichte said. "There would be a lot of amount associated with it if we approved to advance it." The foundation has agreed to booty on the amount of developing the acreage so it can anatomy its center. Should the adventure fail, the acreage and architecture would backslide to the district.
Clay, whose own 20-year-old babe Nicole has brainy and concrete disabilities, said best acceptance with disabilities can break in the accessible academy arrangement and accept casework until the age of 22, but afterwards that families charge acquisition alternatives.
"Often times, anc estors associates are affected to abdicate their jobs to affliction for them," she said. "Two-income families become one-income and distinct parents absolutely struggle." The centermost will not accomplish a profit. Clay said families who authorize for vouchers from the accompaniment to affliction for disabled developed accouchement would be able to use those vouchers at the center.
Clay said her babe has been her capital afflatus for the venture. She told the lath that as her babe started to get older, she began to anguish about what would appear to her already she larboard the accessible academy arrangement and was abashed she would regress.
"I apperceive this is an aggressive project," she said. "But no one is added motivated to accomplish changes in the association than a mother." ___ (c)2014 the Albuquerque Journal (Albuquerque, N.M.) Visit the Albuquerque Journal (Albuquerque, N.M.) at www.abqjournal.com Distributed by MCT Information Casework
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Title : Adult day affliction centermost planning beneath way [Albuquerque Journal, N.M.]
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