Curtis says it isn’t the room alone that makes his therapists quick
to claim any Our House jobs on Pro-Kids Therapy’s schedule. It’s
also the other services Our House provides to meet all of the needs
each kid has. “If I’m doing therapy in the hallway and a classroom
is having snack time and my kid is starving, he’s going to be watching
those kids in there eat.” At Our House, he knows that not only will
they not be in a hallway, but also the kids will have had healthy
meals and snacks.
About 90% of Curtis’s clients are seen in day cares rather than in
his office, and it’s important to be able to keep going out to the
kids. “Instead of the parents having to come here, get their kid,
bring them to our office, bring them back, we come out here. We
do the therapy while the parents are at work.” Some kids wouldn’t
be able to get therapy if the parents had to miss work, but for
Curtis’s clients, “they’ve had their speech, they’ve had their
occupational therapy, it’s all done by the time the parent comes to
pick their kids up [from child care].”