Kenwood Press Reports on Recent PHA Meeting

There were a couple of press people in attendance at the recent Legislative Meeting. You can read a report in the Sonoma Index-Tribune here: SDC family members address legislators, from this blog.

Jay Gamel from The Kenwood Press has also reported on the meeting in their latest edition.

Legislators hear from SDC parents
by Jay Gamel, The Kenwood Press
March 15, 2013

Parents, siblings and other relatives of Sonoma Developmental Center’s severely developmentally disabled residents told a panel of state legislators and their aides about their fears and frustrations over the seemingly inevitable closure of the huge state facility near Glen Ellen. They met at an annual hearing sponsored by the Center’s Parent Hospital Association on March 9.

Many, mostly elderly people, spoke anecdotally of their relatives’ long term care at SDC, telling stories of failed attempts of SDC residents to cope in community settings. The guardians say that their loved ones cannot get the level of care at community homes that is available at the Sonoma facility.

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