Steps toward independence
By Tom Corwin
Staff Writer
The Augusta Chronicle
April 14, 2010
James Colson, 25, steps outside his new one-bedroom apartment at Walton West Villas and waters the newly planted grass. He's glad he can still get services at nearby Walton West Transitional Living Center, where he receives help for his traumatic brain injury, but he is glad to be out on his own.
Colson gives a tour of his apartment at Walton West Villas, which is the 11th development built to meet the specific needs of the disabled and elderly.
"Sometimes I like to be by myself," he said.
The six new units are the 11th housing development for the disabled and elderly built by Walton Rehabilitation Health System in partnership with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Two more projects, in south Augusta and in Harlem, have been approved, said Walton President and CEO Dennis Skelley.
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