7 Questions With
Leslie
Pritchett
How long have you been opening your home to adults with developmental disabilities or living with someone with a developmental disability?
5 years.
What advice do you wish you received when you first started providing services?
The individual you care for is an extension to your current family! They are like another son or daughter you have but you just didn’t give birth too but they are a part of you.
What is the hardest part about the work you do?
When my son is having stressful day and feeling down and I tried everything to get his spirits up and nothings working.
What is the best part about the work you do?
Knowing that I make a big difference in someone else’s life who just needs a little TLC and someone that cares and for them unconditionally.
What is a dream that you have for yourself?
To travel all over the world!
Who do you consider a hero and why?
My mother is my hero she retired after 35 years from the district courts of Kentucky. She raised 4 kids. She provided for us. She told us to love and respect others. “Treat people how you want to be treated” and “do unto others as you would have them to do unto you.”
She sacrificed daily! Working hard so that we had everything we needed; not wanted. She told us there’s nothing that you can’t do. My mother Bonnie P. took care of my grandfather in our house, who had cancer. She was a caregiver for her father until the day GOD called him home from our house.