IN SPIRIT helps Quadriplegics live at home
IN SPIRIT has been helping quadriplegics in Marin County stay healthy and live at home since 1987. We provide financial aid for personal care attendants and assist with a variety of other essential needs and services that facilitate health, well-being and independent activity.
What is so precious about living in your own home?
For quadriplegics, it means having the freedom to make 
decisions about their physical needs and their personal care, as well as ordinary daily choices such as what to eat and when. These simple yet cherished freedoms are not possible without adequate support for attendant care.
A excerpt from the 2008 Newsletter from IN SPIRIT's Exeutive Director
Thank you for supporting IN SPIRIT through another year. Our vital services are at great risk. The stock market and economic crisis means new dollars are more tight and competitive than ever. We survived our first year without the support of the Babcock Endowment, maintaining our commitments to our clients without dipping into the IN SPIRIT Preservation Fund. We will not be able to do so in 2009, however, without increased revenues. We are reaching out to the Marin community to help protect the well being of local quadriplegics. We are seeking donors, creative ideas and new energy to forward our cause, including applications from potential new Board Members.
I often think of Selkis, an IN SPIRIT client who died in 2000 at age 48. She was a dedicated IHSS advocate and often turned to me for advice in her struggle to get adequate care. She lived alone and could not afford to pay someone to put her to bed. One morning her attendant arrived and found that Selkis had passed away alone during the night in her wheelchair. How I wish we could have done more. We hope you can be there with us to prevent such sad situations.
Your generosity has helped many quadriplegics remain safely in their homes for years. Your donations will continue to provide direct, hands-on support to those in need.
In Gratitude,
Aneice Taylor