Week 7

Visiting a Home for Persons with Challenges
For this assignment, I went to a private facility called The Rainbow House.   The Rainbow House is ran by a set of sister in laws   who opened up the facility in 2005.   It was opened after one of their sons was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis at the age of twenty two.   According to Mrs. Williams, she had looked around the area to see who could help care for her son while she was at work, or when she was out running errands.   There was no such thing around in the surrounding area.   Her sister in law Mrs. Tyler volunteered to help out.   She started out doing it just three times a week and sometimes early on Saturday mornings.   When Mrs. Williams decided to completely retire early, her sister in law still wanted to help out.   At that time, another of their church members had a son who had   severe seizures.   The mother was a single mom, who was trying to hold down a job and take care of   two other children as well. Since it was summer, the two volunteered to give respite care on the weekends and during the day while she was at work since he could not be left alone.   As time went on word had gotten around about the two helping out the mother.   Another family who lived in the next county heard about them and asked if they could be put on their waiting list.   They explained that they were only taking care of two people, and they really didn’t have a waiting list because it was only the two of them working.   Seeing how disappointed the family was, they decided to help out.   At this time, they decided that they might needed someone else to help care as well.   They asked around and soon another person was hired on staff.   After taking time out to look around and talk to their minister, they decided to open up a house that would be for the purpose of taking of children and young adults who had severe disabilities and their families needed help caring for them.   They decided to call it “The Rainbow House”.   Currently there are...