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Updated: 9:01 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2005 | Posted: 6:40 p.m. Monday, Jan. 31, 2005
Blair County —
When pulling up to a house in Roaring Spring, you are in a residential neighborhood, but also a group home. Once inside, the same thing. It looks and feels like a family home and officials say that's exactly what it means to the three residents living there. However, not everyone is sold on the idea of these group homes, especially one mother of an Altoona Center resident. Beverly Wheeler saw the video of the home we toured and while she agreed it was lovely, she's afraid that home is a rarity. With the announcement of the closing of the Altoona Center, many family members of residents there will be faced with seriously looking at group homes as a possibility. In fact, center officials expect nearly half of the 90 current residents to be placed in group homes. Officials from SKILLS of Central PA, just one of many organizations that put group homes together, assure those loved ones, residents will be placed only if the setting is appropriate and will be in homes designed around their needs.
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