2022 Abbott House Annual Report - Report - Page 9
s
’
0
6
For people with
developmental disabilities
The focus of our work with adults with complex needs is to help
create enduring foundations of home, community, and purpose
in their lives. They often have capacities, strengths, and goals
that are overlooked by environments where “management”
overshadows growth. They may be hindered unwittingly by
caregivers from becoming their own person and developing their
own notion of what their life will come to be.
In 1963 Abbott House is
incorporated as a 501 (c)
(3) nonprofit child welfare
agency named after Edith
and Grace Abbott, sisters who
were legendary social justice
advocates and leaders of the
Regardless of history or circumstance, we aim to provide
these individuals with an environment of healing, safety, and
opportunity to create their future.
social services movement of the
Adults with complex needs will not “bootstrap” themselves out of
their plight and into prospering futures. They critically depend on
our professional intervention and partnership.
Martin Luther King, Jr. attends
Through counseling, health care, life skills, employment training,
and other services, we help them find their place in the world.
Our programs for people with developmental
disabilities include:
Individual Residential Alternatives (IRAs)
Day Habilitation
(site-based and without walls)
early 20th Century. In 1965, Dr.
Abbott House’s first inaugural
dinner and gives a speech titled
The Dignity of Family Life:
An Address at Abbott House,
Westchester County, NY.
To learn more about
these programs, click here.
2022 Annual Report
|
2
