LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Harbor House of Louisville got $4 million on Wednesday from the state to help complete the Harbor House campus.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear was in Louisville at noon to take a tour and grant them the money.
The completed campus will include the 36,000-square-foot Intergenerational Life Center; an 8,300-square-foot Child Enrichment Center to open June 2025.
"I think Harbor House is committed to the value of every single human being that everyone deserves a life of respect of dignity and a value," Beshear said.
The full campus will have a 9,000-square-foot respite house. In the respite house up to nine guests can stay for up to two weeks of supervised care when their caregivers need respite for personal or professional reasons.
The completed campus will also have a transportation hub to securely store and maintain a fleet of 17 passenger vans and small buses and a ¾-mile walking track used by participants and the community.
Since 1992 Harbor House of Louisville has provided day services to adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them opportunities to build social, emotional, and cognitive skills through participation in employment, performing arts, health and wellness, and visual arts.
Now, the non-profit organization is expanding its mission to serve children of all abilities—meaning with and without disabilities of any kind—in its new Child Enrichment Center and with day services to seniors as well.
Harbor House also operates three respite houses for short-term stays, one of which is especially designed for teens with a gaming system, ping-pong and foosball tables, games, a basketball goal, and fire pit.
The Child Enrichment Center is expected to open in June of 2025.