Home Builders Foundation ramps up mobility for metro-area families

BY MCKENNA HARFORD MHARFORD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

When Matt and Caroline Procik moved into their Castle Rock home over a year ago, it was mostly accessible to their daughter Juniper’s wheelchair, with one major exception — the step at the front door.

Lifting 3-year-old Juniper and her wheelchair over the front step became a daily task for the Prociks any time they had to leave the house.

“ ankfully she’s small enough right now that I can carry her up or down the stairs, but it’s not going to be that way forever,” Matt said. e family tried going through their insurance, Medicaid, to nd a contractor to build a ramp, but the process was long, and they had little luck nding someone to take the job.

“We had contractors come out, but no one wanted it,” Caroline said, adding that they were told construction could take up to a month. en the Prociks found the Home Builders Foundation, an Englewood-based nonpro t that works to make homes accessible.

e Prociks family project be- came part of the organization’s annual Blitz Build, where volunteers construct mobility ramps for free throughout the Denver metro area.

On May 19, volunteers from Haberer Carpentry and FirstBank worked through on and o drizzle building a ramp that Juniper would be able to use the very same day. Juniper, who has a rare genetic variant, an RHOBTB2 mutation,