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The new barn is now complete at Carolina Farms!
This year marks the 28th anniversary of GHA's providing services to individuals with Autism in Stanly County.
CAROLINA FARMS GREENHOUSE AND GARDENS
The greenhouse and gardens at Carolina Farms are up and running with the first growing season labeled a success. Clients have spent many hours cultivating herbs and vegetables to market at various outlets around the county, with the most recent one being the yard sale sponsored by the Family Support Network at GHA. Fragrant dried dill, parsley and cilantro were in abundance and topped out as the best sellers of the day.
Your donation will help support autism education, awareness, advocacy and research and most importantly, enable us to assist families living with autism.
LOCAL AUTHORS
Maureen Morrell, a GHA parent, and her friend of many years, Ann Palmer, have teamed up to write a book covering their experiences of raising sons on opposite extremes of the autism spectrum.
Parenting Across the Autism Spectrum: Unexpected Lessons We Have Learned speaks openly about their journeys from early diagnoses, through adolescence to the day their boys leave home. They give moving accounts of each of these stages and the challenges they presented as well as the consolations and understanding they found along the journey.
Parenting Across the Autism Spectrum offers rare personal insights into the world of autism while giving practical guidance to those just starting their journey.
To order your copy of the book go to Jessica Kingsley Publishers
GHA, Inc. Awarded An $8000 Grant To Enhance Farming Community for Adults with Autism
GHA, Inc. has been awarded an $8,000 grant from The Daniel Jordan Fiddle Foundation of Ridgewood New Jersey. The grant will support the construction of a barn at GHA’s Carolina Farms that will allow adults with autism to work directly with farm animals and enhance their farming and vocational skills.
GHA, established in 1978, began construction of Carolina Farms in 2003. This project enables adults with autism to realize the dream of living and working on a farm. “ This is the second grant from The Daniel Jordan Fiddle Foundation that has enabled us to expand our farming programs for adults with ASD,” said Dawn Allen, Executive Director of GHA, Inc.
The Daniel Jordan Fiddle Foundation provides grants to residential, recreational, vocational, educational and family support programs that enrich the lives of adolescents and adults with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). “ Our goal is to honor the individuality of each person with ASD by supporting programs that create opportunities, such as the GHA farming community, where people can live and work productively,” said Linda Walder Fiddle, Executive Director of the foundation.
For information on The Daniel Jordan Fiddle Foundation visit their web site.
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Carolina Farms welcomes Kat! Kat, an Arabian horse, was donated to the farm by Mia Hartsell, age 10, and her parents Shawn and Mason Hartsell.
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US Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) Visits Carolina Farms
Senator Richard Burr recently took a tour of GHA's Carolina Farms. Read the full story in The Stanly News and Press.