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About Us
Do you dream of a future for your daughter that's filled with happiness, understanding, comfort, encouragement, growth and love?
Do you pray that she'll be provided for, as you would, for the rest of her adult life?
Do you hope for peace of mind, able to trust someone to care for her just as much as you do - even when you're no longer here to care for her yourself?
Ruthie Robbins understands. That's why she took it upon herself to build Mandy's Special Farm, and ensure a lifetime of good for her daughter Mandy, and five other young women with autism, like your child.
Ruthie and David Robbins knew they had to do something.
They were returning to their home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from a journey to California that was to have seen daughter Amanda, a young woman with autism, placed in well-known residential home for special needs individuals.
But Mandy was at their side, because what Ruthie and David witnessed at the home was far from the high level of care they had been promised.
"Our trust had been broken and our worst fears realized," Ruthie recalls. "Needless to say, we were extremely distraught."
But in that moment of disillusionment, Ruthie found an inner resolve - and a new, brighter vision for Mandy's future.
Today, years of perseverance later, Mandy's Special Farm stands as a testimony to the love they have for their daughter, the peace they desire for her life, and the future they share with other families challenged by young women with autism.
The mission of Mandy's Special Farm is to provide highest quality, long term, 24-hour care for a maximum six women with autism, ages 18 to 30 on admission. The goal is to help these women achieve their greatest self-sufficiency, within a caring, structured, positive, purposeful, encouraging home-like atmosphere. And the hope? That six young women with autism will lead a better life - and that the parents of these special children will find peace of heart and mind. |
