Coral Update
A Happy Coral
Coral has overcome so much already through the help of WSB but she still has a long way to go. The Group Home will provide the long term help she needs. Read her story to learn more and how you can be a part of that story.
We have a Coral update since our last story about her in 2021. Through our scholarship program Coral is currently enrolled in our life skills program and lives on campus. When Coral first arrived she didn’t have good balance, couldn’t get around without assistance, couldn’t stand up straight and was very limited in her communication. Coral is a perfect candidate for the new WSB Group Home as she has I/DD (Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities) and she is blind. Coral takes steps of growth with therapy and life skills training she is receiving in our current program and will continue to receive once she moves into the Group Home. She can navigate the campus on her own using her cane. She can fill her own med box, use a tape player to listens to books on tape. She is learning to spell some words and speak more clearly. When her mom came for a visit, she was blown away that Coral could show her around campus on her own. These may not seem like big steps to the average person but to Coral these are HUGE steps. Without WSB she would not be able to make these strides towards independence. We want all our clients to achieve the most independence possible and that looks different for everyone. The Group Home will customize Coral’s continued training and therapy to help her reach goals she can achieve. When you ask Coral how she feels about moving into the Group Home she says “I want to live at WSB forever because this is where my friends live.” She has found at WSB an extended family that love her, protect her, and help her become the best Coral she can be. As we shared in our first story on Coral her parents live at poverty level. One parent was not able to work because they had to care for Coral without the skills or tools to help her like we can. Now that they have a place that can care for Coral long term, they are able to both go to work, improve their financial situation and have a better environment to bring Coral home to on visits. The Group Home changes will not only change the lives of the clients living in it but also their families.
We have not finished raising the funding to complete the Group Home project. You can help people like Coral have a permanent, safe, secure place to live providing training and therapy so they can be the best version of themselves. You can help by giving to www.wsblindfoundation.org/grouphome ,