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Jenn Heroux-Bachand, the crisis bed manager at Northeast Kingdom Human Services, grew up helping out on her grandparents’ dairy farm. She knows what it means to work hard and is always up for a challenge. Still, she’s struggling with her current workload. In a recent two-week period, because of severe staff shortages, she worked 225 hours. (Paid Post)
Freedom fighter achieved progress for folks living with disabilities in Vermont
'You need to get him out of there': Vermont man with autism lived in 6 facilities in one year Isaac Fornarola, Burlington Free Press © Courtesy of Linda Luxenberg Travis Luxenberg, 33, looks out the window at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, where he stayed for several months over the spring and summer of 2020. BURLINGTON, Vt. — It was Christmas, and Linda Luxenberg couldn't wait to spend it with her son Travis in his new home. She had purchased a log cabin in Waitsfield, Vermont and called it Nice Place. There, Linda Luxenberg hoped, her son, who has severe autism, ...
Burlington Free Press BURLINGTON, Vt. — It was Christmas, and Linda Luxenberg couldn't wait to spend it with her son Travis in his new home. She had purchased a log cabin in Waitsfield, Vermont and called it Nice Place. There, Linda Luxenberg hoped, her son, who has severe autism, would be safe from the chaos that ran his life for years. "This boy is going to have Christmas at Nice Place, with his sisters and his mom," she told the Burlington Free Press, part of the USA TODAY Network. She furnished the home and bought her son new clothes. "Trav' was in heaven." But what followed was les...