LOUISVILLE, Ky. — In less than a year, three Louisville families have made the same heartbreaking decision to pack up their lives – not for opportunity, but for safety.
Their destination is the same out-of-state residential facility chosen by two Louisville families before them. Three families, one decision, and a growing question: Why are parents concluding Kentucky can’t protect children with profound autism?
If 15-year-old Chase Crawford had a say, his family believes he’d stay right here in Louisville, surrounded by familiar faces at the Bluegrass Center for Autism, with staff who know him and therapies that have supported him most of his life…