People with disabilities receive COVID-19 vaccine at Boca Raton group home January 13, 2021 at 4:51 PM EST - Updated January 13 at 10:11 PM
Carin Friedman and her 27-year-old son Gabe are close.
“Before COVID he would come home every Sunday and we would spend the day together,” she recalled.
Now, Gabe spends most of his days at his group home on JARC Florida’s campus in Boca Raton.
“Gabe has autism,” Friedman said.
She said she brought him for Thanksgiving but quarantining when he got back to the program wasn’t easy.
“He would FaceTime me and say no more stay in your room, no more stay in our room and it broke my heart because he almost felt like he was being punished, but he wasn’t,” Friedman explained. “It was for the safety of the other clients, for his safety.”