A program that aims to assist people in Summit County with autism and Alzheimer’s disease who have become lost or disoriented has expanded to include people with other disorders.
The Take Me Home program is a joint effort between the Summit County prosecutor’s and sheriff’s offices. It was brought to Summit County in 2007 after an autistic child went missing and was unable to communicate his name or address to law enforcement.
The program created a database accessible only to law enforcement that contains information submitted by parents and caretakers of people with communication difficulties. Should one of these people become lost, law enforcement can access the Take Me Home database on their in-car computers to find such information as addresses, diagnoses, medications and names of trusted contacts…