When your life has been turned upside down and you have been given challenges beyond imagination to cope with—and you succeed in making a good life for yourself—there is a story to tell. Here you will read, in their own words, the stories of Joan, Dick, Todd, Ed, Elaine and Joyce and many others, as their lives converge and interweave within the larger story of the birth of New Horizons.
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In her daily life, Polly Hincks is considered quite disabled, but not at New Horizons. Her desire to write this book is primarily because it is a marvelous story, but secondarily to honor thse friends for the richness and balance they have given her life.
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The human side of public policy,
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This review is from: Yes! We Made It! The Story of New Horizons: how people with severe disabilitiesin a chronic care hospitalworked their way to independence. (Paperback)
Polly Hincks tells the story behind New Horizons, which provides a home for people who, despite their daunting physical disabilities, want to live with as much freedom and independence as they possibly can. It is a story in which everyone emerges better off than they were before. The residents of New Horizons have homes instead of hospital rooms. And the taxpayers of Connecticut save a bundle. New Horizons is, in short, a sensible solution that brings both compassion and economy to bear on a thorny public policy problem. Just because New Horizons makes sense, though, does not mean that getting there was easy. Far from it. The path was long and arduous, and Polly chronicles the human struggles that went into the making of New Horizons with both affection and humor.
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