The ambulance crew already had arrived and was treating a patient outside her home on the near Eastside when Shane Hardwick, a paramedic and member of Shepherd Community Center\u2019s Shalom Project team, pulled up to the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c(The patient) had fallen off her porch and landed face first onto a concrete pad,\u201d Hardwick said. \u201cThere was a significant amount of facial trauma reported by the ambulance crew. There was a pool of blood on the ground, several of her teeth had been knocked out, and her nose was badly damaged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the ambulance crew left to take the woman to a hospital, Hardwick learned that the patient was a developmentally delayed adult whose elderly mother was her primary caregiver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He also noticed a significant safety issue — the front porch lacked handrails. It was another accident waiting to happen without an intervention. So, Hardwick contacted staff at Shepherd to ask for help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn true Shepherd fashion, they said they would be happy to help,\u201d Hardwick said. \u201cIn less than a week, they were not only able to source the funding for the project, but they also scheduled a group of carpenters and handymen to do the project.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shepherd Director of Volunteers Donna Alexander said 12 volunteers from the Morales Group, Morales Group Staffing<\/strong><\/a> + Acci\u00f3n Performance<\/strong><\/a>, purchased the supplies and built the guardrails to make the front porch safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDespite receiving devastating injuries and a long path to recovery, she will one day come home,\u201d Hardwick said. \u201cWhen she does, she will be able to safely sit on her porch without fear of falling.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Morales Group is a long-term partner with Shepherd that serves neighbors in a variety of ways. Shepherd Executive Director Jay Height noted that the partnership has meant a lot to neighbors over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMorales Group has invested so much time into the lives of our neighbors,\u201d Height said. \u201cPractical and compassionate are descriptors of the Morales Group.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The ambulance crew already had arrived and was treating a patient outside her home on the near Eastside when Shane Hardwick, a paramedic and member of Shepherd Community Center\u2019s Shalom Project team, pulled up to the scene. \u201c(The patient) had fallen off her porch and landed face first onto a concrete pad,\u201d Hardwick said. \u201cThere […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-volunter-profile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}