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January 16, 2007

Program aids the disabled

Link: AWARE

Because no one knew how to help him, the grade-schooler was hospitalized for several months, including at a psychiatric center where he was stripped naked and placed in a straitjacket. Twenty years later, Craig worries aloud almost daily that he'll be put into a straitjacket again.

Eventually, the Harwoods discovered AWARE, an organization that offers community-based care for people with disabilities.