FORT SMITH, Ark. — Bost, a nonprofit that provides services for adults and children with developmental and intellectual disabilities, is closing one of its Fort Smith programs for kids younger than 5 years old.
The decision to shutter the Bost's Early Intervention Day treatment program in Fort Smith was announced to parents in January, according to Bost's Chief Operating Officer James Maginot.
The program provided services for children aged 18 months to 5 years old. Those kids, Maginot said, were all placed in similar programs within Fort Smith. The staff at the program were offered jobs within Bost and at other locations.
Maginot said there were a number of reasons why the program was closed down, but at the core of the decision was to “make sure that we can serve as many people as possible in the best manner possible."
"It just was not feasible for us to continue to run our Early Intervention Day treatment children's programs,” Maginot said.
Since the announcement of the closure in January, Bost met with other similar programs in the city to make sure no children would be displaced.
Maginot said Bost will continue to offer programs for kids older than 5 to “live their lives as independently as possible."
The nonprofit will also keep the many programs it offers to adults, so by no means is Bost closing.
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