Our long-awaited new website launches in January, featuring a clean design, lots of updated information about SHI’s services and openings, and a mini documentary featuring SHI residents, parents, and staff.
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It was with that same fierce spirit of independence and self advocacy that a group of prospective residents and their families came together in 1987 to explore the possibility of establishing their own home in Brookline. There was already a model for them to follow, two other SHI residencies having been founded in Washington Square just a few years before.
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Fuller Street resident Richie Kastrainer threw out the first pitch at a Pawtucket Red Sox game this past June.
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“There wouldn’t be a Specialized Housing if it weren’t for that small group that came together in Brookline,” David told me one fall afternoon as he reflected on the early years of the MSA, “That’s where it all began.”
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Among his many accomplishments, Michael’s biggest to date may be a clinical vaccine trial which he has participated in at Massachusetts General Hospital for the last four years. A clinical trial which could potentially lead to a cure for Alzheimer’s disease.
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Both Claude and Ellen, co-founders and residents of SHI’s flagship program in Brookline, Mass., woke up at the break of dawn nearly every single day for well over 30 years; they braved every kind of inclement weather to board trains and buses, committed all of their energy to careers they were passionate about and, just recently, they both retired.
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