{"id":234270,"date":"2020-11-09T15:30:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T21:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=234270"},"modified":"2020-11-08T20:38:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T02:38:30","slug":"dad-founds-support-community-adults-down-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/dad-founds-support-community-adults-down-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Dad founds support community for adults with Down syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A father of an adult son with Down syndrome has founded a support community in Alberta, Canada. Greg Toews wanted to give his son, Daylen, a good foundation when he graduated high school \u2014 and then expanded that goal to include other adults with Down syndrome, too.<\/p>\n

Toews announced Daylen’s Place to the public during Canadian Down Syndrome Week. Currently, it consists of two furnished homes, which can house three residents and four caregivers. Daylen Toews currently lives there with a caregiver, but is looking forward to having more housemates. Each resident will have to pitch in when it comes to the maintenance of the home, with assigned tasks for each person. Daylen is able to learn things pretty quickly, according to Toews, and already does things like cook for himself.<\/p>\n

“Once Daylen does it, say, four or five times, he gets the hang of it,” Toews told Okotoks Online<\/a>. “So in a month’s time, he can already make his grilled cheesed sandwich, a hamburger, eggs \u2014\u00a0it’s pretty impressive!”<\/p>\n