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From YouTube: NewsMakers: Mary Marshall Residence Open House
Description
A look at Arlington Virginia's Mary Marshall Residence, an assisted living facility for low-income seniors with serious mental illness or intellectual or developmental disabilities. Mary Marshall is funded in part by Arlington County and operated by Volunteers of America.
A
Welcome
to
newsmakers
this
week
we
attended
an
open
house
for
the
Mary
Marshall
assisted
living
residence
operated
in
partnership
with
the
volunteers
of
america,
with
funding
from
arlington
county
Mary
Marshall
provides
housing
for
low-income
seniors
with
serious
mental
illness
or
intellectual
or
developmental
disabilities.
We
spoke
to
resident
services
director
Kaye
Halverson.
We.
C
This
facility
here
today
is
so
amazing
because
it's
the
culmination
of
work
from
hundreds
and
hundreds
of
people
in
different
organizations
in
different
parts,
this
community-
and
you
know
as
Marshall
all
grr
deputy
county,
nitrous
that
they
could
have
gone
wrong
any
number
of
places.
Everyone
played
a
part-
and
you
know
not
every
community
would
have
done
this
and
could
have
done
this,
and
we
should
feel
really
great
about
this
Arlington
community
that
we
pulled
this
off.
Many.
D
Of
our
citizens,
who
live
with
serious
mental
illness
or
cognitive
disabilities,
their
aging,
like
all
of
us,
are
aging
and
as
they
age,
they
need
more
and
more
health
services,
assisted
living
and
many
of
the
current
facilities
can't
man
the
needs
of
the
up
folks
like
that.
So
this
feels
fills
a
huge
gap
in
our
community
to
meet
the
quality
of
life
needs
for
these
folks
for
housing,
for
all
the
supportive
services
that
surround
housing
that
allow
them
to
stay
in
our
community
and
now.
E
We
have
it
available,
been
renovated,
has
been
done,
has
been
extended.
You
have
some
roots
own
rooms
down
there
and
a
great
facilities
for
our
residents
here,
which
is
the
most
about
26,
but
its
capacity
passive
about
52,
so
we're
hoping
to
fill
them
all,
and
so
Alan
Tony
ins
can
have
a
place
where
they
can
be
comfortable
in.
There
are
a
lot
of
years
so.
G
C
What
you
heard
repeatedly
today
was
that
that
searing
question
from
parents
who
had
a
son
or
daughter
with
an
intellectual
disability
that
knew
they
couldn't
be
self-sufficient,
that
they
needed
the
support
around
them
and
the
fear
was
what's
going
to
happen
to
that
child
when
I
die.
What
is
going
to
happen
and
the
government
isn't
supposed
to
solve
all
the
problem,
but
we
have
to
be
part
of
the
solution,
and
in
this
case
we
were
part
of
the
solution.
We're
not
the
whole
solution.