Over the weekend, the Minnesota Department of Human Services announced day services for people with disabilities could reopen starting today.
Weekend - the minnesota department of human services announced day services for people with disabilities could reopen starting today.
But as kimt news three's calyn thompson is finding out - people shouldn't expect it to happen right away.xxx on the scene services for people with disabilities rochester, mn linda driessen: when the world opened up, so did the rights of people with disabilities ya know.
They want to go out just as much as every one else does.
Linda driessen is the executive director at bear creek services in rochester.
They house around 100 people... with a majority either being employed or going to a day program through places such as ability building community.
Disability services-llmpkg-2 calyn stand up: those in the disability field tell me reopening these programs won't just happen overnight.
It will require a lot of planning in order to keep people safe and healthy.
Disability services-llmpkg-4 linda: in all honesty, i'm thrilled for the fact that there's a chance for people to get some normalcy back in their life and scared to death all at the same time.
Because this just creates another level of precaution and figuring out how do we keep people safe while at the same time giving them the chance to experience, do life.
Disability services-llmpkg-5 the organizations will work and plan together in order for everyone to safely get back to "normal."
In rochester, calyn thompson, kimt news 3.
/ the minnesota department of human resources says there are about 300 day services locations in minnesota that serve about 6-thousand people per month.
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