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Rocky Mountain News - Saturday June 7, 1975 continued from page 55 [we don't have first part of this article] 2 PHOTOS by Bill Perry: Top photo of someone sitting in a wheelchair by a window. There is a TV set and other furniture, and in the foreground, the wheel of another wheelchair. Bottom photo of what appears to be the same room, with two people in wheelchairs facing one another, talking. Caption reads: Kathy Vincent talks with Glenn Kopp, one of two executive directors of the Atlantis project, in one of remodeled apartments. [Headline] Atlantis offered for handicapped SAID GLENN KOPP, one of two executive directors of the project, and himself confined to a wheelchair: “You have to be in a wheelchair to realize the specific needs of the handicapped.” Under the direction of those who will live at Atlantis, doorways were widened, entrance and exit ramps installed, ovens and stoves made more accessible, disposal units moved down and doorsills made flush with flooring, among other things. "We want to push people out a bit on their own," said Kopp. “So far as we know, this is the first project of its type in the United States. The entire project, too, is financially feasible for its handicapped residents. Most receive state grants of $155 a month for living expenses, and can apply for and receive another $217 per month to pay for needed attendants. WHILE NOT a great deal of money, the combined dollars from two young adults sharing an apartment make the plan workable. And plans now call for many more apartments to be converted. Some $82,500 in pre-planning money already is available, and co-executive director Wade Blank estimates some $4 to $5 million will be spent ultimately for the total project. Daily medical support services already have been arranged through the combined efforts of a 24—hour-a-day staff of attendants and the Denver General Hospital staff of doctors and nurses working out of the West Side Health Clinic at 10th Avenue and Federal Boulevard. Assistance in personal care, housekeeping and food preparation also will be available on a 24-hour basis. Mobility, too, is assured both by an RTD bus stop directly across from the project and by an RTD bus stop directly across from the project and by a large utilitarian van owned by Atlantis. IN CASE OF any emergencies, a 24-hour hotline will be in operation, capable of both receiving and transmitting, with each unit connected directly to a central office on the premises. Residents, of course, are required to pay rent for their apartments, but, as Kopp notes: "We are now getting some people out of some difficult living conditions." And, when the project was first announced, Ingo Antonitsch, director of the Denver Commission of the Disabled and chairman of the seven member board created to help administer the project, said: “We want to prove that even the severely disabled, when given a little moral support, can become self-sufficient and integrate with the community at large." - ADAPT (19)
The Denver Post Tues. March 4, 1975 [Big Masthead: The Denver Post Founded on October 28, 1895 by F.G. Bonfils and H.H. Tammen Helen G. Bonfils, Officer and Director, 1933-72 "Dedicated in perpetuity to the service of the people, that no good cause shall lack a champion and that evil shall not thrive unopposed" Donald R Seawell, President, Chairman of the Board Charles R Buxton, Executive Vice President, Editor and Publisher Earl R Moore, Secretary-Treasurer William Hornby, Vice President, Executive Editor Robert H Shanahan, Vice President, General Manager] [Headline] The Post's Opinion [Subheading] A New Atlantis Is Born It didn't attract much attention. but the birth of the first phase of the Atlantis project is an event for rejoicing—as well as a warning for caution. A group of disabled persons in Denver, spurred to expectations of a better life by a new-found militancy, for some months now have been working to bring to to life a planned community in which handicapped persons could live a more normal life. This type of community, they hoped, would be free of confining nursing home atmospheres which so easily could make "vegetables" out of young patients without hope for anything more. Now, it has been announced, the first step toward that new independence has been successful. Within three months 14 disabled young persons will move from nursing homes into a cooperative apartment living situation in which they can receive the medical and supportive services they need in addition to the freedom they so desperately seek. The group will move into a renovated apartment complex called Las Casitas Homes at W. 11th Ave. and Federal Blvd. They will receive services and funding from a variety of sources. It is with a project such as this — perhaps unique in the nation — that disabled persons can find their level of dignity and productivity. For too long they have suffered through stereotyping which never realized their potential. However, the note of caution comes here: The participants in the program must be carefully screened so that those who take part can experience success in their new life styles; and those who are chosen must not reject the level of assistance that they still require in the headiness of their new freedom. If the commitment of all concerned is well established, the program should work and become a guiding light for other communities across the country.