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After losing both parents Samm Blake steps up to care for her sister who lives with an Intellectual Disability
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Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Guilbault Girls Show. I’m your host Karen Guilbault, and today’s guest is Samantha Belcher-Blake.
Samm is 32 years old and has a beautiful 8-year-old daughter named Hazel who is in the process of being adopted by her husband, Nick Blake.
After losing both of her parents within 6 months of each other, Samm stepped up to take care of her 36-year-old sister Heather, who has an intellectual disability and developmental delays.
When Heather was young, doctors had tried to talk her parents into putting her into a home with "people like her ". They refused. The doctors said she would never walk or talk, and boy did she prove them wrong! I can’t tell you how many parents have been told that same thing.
I read article from 2022 that there are more than 6 million Americans that have a developmental disability and a growing number of them have grown into adults who continue to be cared for by their parents.
Those parents are growing older too and there are now more than a million people over 60 caring for someone with intellectual or developmental disabilities in their home. One of the biggest concerns is what happens to them when those parents pass away.
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Our daughter, Faith Guilbault directed a documentary called Faith’s World about her journey of living with a disability which aired on PBS in April of 2020. You can watch the documentary in full at the following link the link:
https://www.pbs.org/video/faiths-world-ozblht/
“It takes a village to raise a child” is an African proverb that means an entire community of people must interact with children for those children to grow in a safe and healthy environment.
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