Corvilla, Inc

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Corvilla began over 40 years ago in 1959 as a dream in the hearts and minds of a handful of parents of mentally retarded children. These parents went to Logan and asked for help. They asked that some kind of temporary living care be given to their children while they (the parents) tried to live the smallest part of a normal life. Logan was not ready to move into respite care (temporary living) or residential care (full time permanent living). As a result, these parents started a fund to provide their own program of living care. They called themselves the Catholic Organization for the Retarded (COR). The fact that these pioneering parents were Catholic was incidental to the needs of their sons and daughters. If they were going to go it alone and pave the way to provide living care for the mentally retarded, they wanted the community to know by what faith the home would be governed and by what faith they had the courage to begin such monumental task. After two years of fund raising events, building a stronger leadership, and developing a community component of the organization, the first respite care was offered. It was primarily a sitter service so parents could trust their special son or daughter in the hands of capable, caring and directed staff. This alternative gave great relief to the parents' minds. For the first time they were able to have time for themselves without worrying about the inexperience, immaturity, and insensitivity of teenaged sitters...

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