HELPING RESTORE ABILITY

Helping Restore Ability (HRA) is a 501(c)(3) organization established in 1977. HRA exists to promote independence and enrich the lives of people of all ages with any type of disabling condition. The agency was founded by a college student, Sam Provence, who was believed to be the last person diagnosed with polio in Tarrant County. Just to breathe, Sam depended on an iron lung at night and a Pneumatic belt that literally squeezed the air from his lungs during the day, but he willed his body to adapt. That same commitment, determination and empathy that drove Sam continues to guide the organization.

Helping Restore Ability is the largest nonprofit provider of attendant care services in Texas and celebrated its 40th anniversary in May, 2017.

Consumer Directed Services (CDS): Trained attendants provide the care and support systems for disabled individuals to live independently and function productively in mainstream society. This program empowers consumers to make personal decisions related to the delivery of personal assistance services and respite services within his or her current home and is offered throughout the entire state of Texas.

Primary Home Care Program (PHC) PHC offers three (3) types of services including community attendant services, which provide an in-home attendant for adults with a medical need for specific tasks, primary home care which is prescribed by a physician as part of a client’s plan of care, or family care which provides services for eligible adults who are functionally limited in performing daily activities. This program is offered in North Texas.

Key Achievements of Helping Restore Ability
•Helping Restore Ability is the largest nonprofit provider of attendant care services in Texas and celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2017.
•HRA operates at 5% administration costs, with 95 cents of every dollar directed to care for HRA clients: people with disabilities.
•Helping Restore Ability (HRA) served 1,000 +clients in the past year providing more than 2.2 million hours of care last year alone, with over 2,200 care attendants.
•For every $1,000 donated, HRA can initiate services for an additional person with a disability. Because the condition is typically permanent, a client may receive services for years, often for the remainder of his or her life. Estimated average value of the lifetime of services for HRA clients is $650,000 per client.

Client Demographic

• 98% of HRA Clients have income at or below poverty levels, low enough to qualify for Medicaid.
• HRA provides care for any disabling condition, both physical and intellectual. The most common diagnoses of HRA clients are: cerebral palsy, autism, spinal cord injury, developmental delay, Down syndrome, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, quadriplegia and Spina Bifida.
• As the largest independent nonprofit provider of attendant care services in Texas, HRA has a network of over 2,200 care attendants and over 1,000 clients served.
• Though HRA serves all of Texas, 60% of the HRA’s client base lives in Tarrant County, and over 78% live in North Texas with the remaining clients served living in Houston, San Antonio, Austin, El Paso and smaller rural towns of Texas.
• HRA clients ages are: Under 21: 36%; 22-59: 47%; 60 and over: 17%.

• HRA clients’ ethnicity break down is: 55% Caucasian; 24% African American; 17% Hispanic; 4% Other