Special Kids eventually grow up to be special adults and they can be very active members of society and pay their own way and function fine with a little supervision. All this without burdening the taxpayer you see?

One way they can help society and themselves to a fair paycheck to pay for an apartment and their living expenses is to work with an Organization, which runs a mobile fleet washing business. We had worked thru such a plan back in 1999 with a New Jersey Special Kids Organization to do just that. Corporations with car pool vehicles and fleet ride share vans would pay for the services and the kids would help do the washing to pay for the organization, staff and even personal living expenses.

Recently someone had emailed me to ask if a 1,000-vehicle account once per month would be worthy of the investment for a $3,000 mobile car wash rig on a trailer. Well, 1000 Vehicles is not that many and hopefully they could be spaced out through out the month. So one would have to make sure with the special kids or disabled folks that the labor costs and the certified assistants trainers required for the disabled folks makes sense and that the costs work out.

Perhaps the state can in fact reimburse some of these costs for you? Unsure how your state works, and each state is different. I do recall in NJ they paid half the supervisors costs for their program. Also if you are using special kids to do the work to help them learn, keep a job and become self sufficient there are issues with Winter Months, cold air and susceptibility to infections. So for some states this could indeed be a factor to also consider. Think on this in 2006.