Boy Scout Camp in MS to Provide Temporary Shelter to Families of Developmentally Disabled

A Boy Scout Camp in Yocona, Toccopola, Miss., is offering to provide temporary emergency shelter to families who have children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder and other developmental disabilities. The camp has a total of 350 beds. The cabins will sleep eight people. Each group of four to five cabins has a bathhouse. There is a large, commercial kitchen and dining hall available. A very good GFCF cook from Hawaii has offered to help cook, etc.

Peg Pickering is a mother of a child with autism, and the Coordinator.
Contact Peg Pickering at 662-488-9619 or 662-509-0599.

Contact the National Autism Association toll free at 866-622-6733, if you have information on families with children who have a developmental disability in need of shelter due to being displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Needed Donations:
Ziploc bags of all sizes, and large garbage bags. They also need clothes and diapers.

Additional information available at: www.AutismRescue.com.

Please send your donations to:

ASD KATRINA RESCUE
c/o Peg Pickering
2901 Hwy 9 South
Pontotoc, MS 38863

Tax-deductible donations for the Camp can be made at: www.NationalAutism.org.

Volunteers are also needed to visit shelters and other sites to let families know assistance for their developmentally disabled children is available. Flyers listing some common behaviors of autism are available at: www.NationalAutism.org.

For more information and resources on autism, please visit:
http://www.autismconcepts.com/.