Avon Magazine November 2021

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Often it’s the warm, genuine smile that draws you in. That, combined with the infectious joy and gentle kindness that often exudes from individuals born with Down syndrome, is what makes them truly special.

Jared Baker, 21, is one of these exceptional people. In many ways, he’s like any other 21-year-old who likes to hang out with friends, play video games, watch wrestling on TV, and

dance when music starts to play.

Originally from southern Indiana, Cheryl and Ray Baker lived in Charlotte, North Carolina, for a while, and in the fall of 2005 they chose to move back closer to family when their children Jared and Kyleigh were 6 and 2. Cheryl began researching various school systems, as schooling was the driving factor in their decision.

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special ed room. He learns from other kids’ behavior so we needed him to be around that.

Everywhere we went, I was told, ‘We’ll do our best to get him into the classroom.’ ” Then she spoke to representatives from the Avon Community School Corporation, who told her inclusion is their number-one goal.

“That’s the whole reason we moved to Avon, and they never did let us down,” Cheryl says.

“I always say that our family could be Avon’s spokesperson because we believe in them so much.”

Cheryl describes her son as eternally upbeat, loving, caring and thoughtful.

“He’s got a heart of gold,” she says.

He enjoys going to services at Kingsway Christian Church and participating in Monday night life groups with the church, where he often requests to lead the prayers.

For several years, Jared was cast in The Biz Academy of Musical Theatre’s musicals, including “Peter Pan” and “The Wizard of Oz.” He has also been asked to sing the national anthem at various football games, basketball games and track meets.

When Jared was in seventh grade, an announcement came over the intercom system about wrestling. Right then and there, Jared got up and walked down to the coach’s office to share his interest in joining the team.

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“When he got home that night, he announced, ‘I’m wrestling!’” recalls Ray, a senior territory manager for Ecolab. “His dream was to always have the official raise his arm for the win.”

Jared not only wrestled all through middle school, but in high school he also participated in Unified Track and Field, which is comprised of students with and without disabilities.

“He did it all - the long jump, shot put, relays,” Ray says.

He also played Upward soccer in his youth.

“We never held Jared back on anything he wanted to pursue,” Cheryl says.

While at Avon High School (AHS), Jared participated in the work-study program.

During his freshman year he worked the breakfast cart, and went around to rooms selling breakfast items to faculty, staff and students.

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“You had the pusher, the stocker, the knocker and the money taker,” says Jared, describing the four jobs involved with the breakfast cart.

Next, he worked in a cafeteria cleaning tables.

The following year he took the bus from the high school to the YMCA where he folded towels and wiped down exercise equipment.

He later bussed tables and refilled drinks at McAlister’s Deli in Plainfield. In 2018, Jared graduated from AHS. Now he works several shifts per week at Applebee’s, where he wipes down tables, fills straw dispensers and salt and pepper shakers, and grabs high chairs when needed. He has a job coach there who helps guide him. Tom Wilson, Applebee’s manager, calls Jared a pure pleasure.

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“He always has a smile on his face,” Wilson says.

Jared is a fairly independent guy. He gets himself up, makes himself breakfast, puts on his work clothes, and watches out the window for the LINK bus through Sycamore Services, which takes him to and from Applebee’s.

“Since my husband and I work full time, having the option of the bus is essential,” Cheryl says. “If it weren’t for [Sycamore Services], Applebee’s would probably not be possible because there would be no transportation. The LINK bus gives him independence to not rely on family, and makes this whole job experience his own.”

After his shift, the bus picks him up and drops him at home where he showers, then makes himself lunch.

“He’s very responsible,” Cheryl says. “The work-study program helped so much with growing his independence.”

The past 20 months have been difficult for many people, and Jared is no exception. The social butterfly had his wings clipped when COVID-19 prompted him to become more reserved. When church doors closed, work paused, and friends and family stopped dropping by, life as he knew it ceased to exist.

“Except for walks around the block, he didn’t leave the house,” Cheryl says.

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It was a lot to process, so when businesses and options started to open back up, anxiety gripped him because the world seemed scary.

Thankfully, after meeting with a behavior therapist, he has begun to feel optimistic again.

to doctor’s appointments and to friends’ houses.

“Now whenever I go out to the grocery or Menards or anywhere, Jared asks to go with me,” says Cheryl, deputy treasurer for Avon Community School Corporation.

With Kyleigh away at college, there is an empty space now. Though the family misses her greatly, her parents see a silver lining in her freedom.

“She’s always had to live in Jared’s shadow,” Cheryl says. “At college she’s not just ‘Jared’s sister’ to everyone. She gets to have her own identity for the first time.”

Thankfully, Jared still has his base of friends, which has remained strong since graduation.

Jared attends recreational therapy as well behavior and music therapy throughout the week, and has a girlfriend named Carrie, whom he’s been dating since 2016. He has big plans for the future.

“I want to buy a car, get married, get a house and have a dog,” Jared says.

His sister Kyleigh has always been one of his most devoted supporters. She’s currently a freshman at Indiana University, but when she’s home, she helps get him

“Kyleigh and Jared love to go on Chick-fil-A runs or Speedway to get slushies,” Cheryl says.

“Daily, he talks to his best friend Laz on FaceTime, and to Carrie,” Cheryl says.

“There are usually several friends on the group chat. Plus, they regularly get together for picnics, birthday parties, swim outings, movie screenings, sleepovers and restaurant

outings.”

Cheryl acknowledges that it takes a whole team to give Jared the independence to live a fulfilled life. They feel fortunate to have found that team in the folks of Hendricks County, from Avon schools providing the education and training to allow him to be employable, to Sycamore Services providing the LINK bus, to Applebee’s giving him great employment, to the therapists and job coaches who make him successful, to his sister and family - and to the many people who support and cheer him on daily.

“It takes a village to make this one thing such as a job at Applebee’s a success,” Cheryl says. “Things we take for granted for ourselves or our other children, it takes so much more planning and support for a person with a disability. He can do it, and he is doing it, but only because of all the support he receives in Avon.”

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There is a time and a place for everything, and sometimes those times arrive later in life. Such is the case for James Noah, currently 64 years old and living out his dream of being a professional driving instructor for a motorsport club.

“Most of the other instructors are half my age,” Noah says.

Not that he’s complaining. He’s just happy to be enjoying retirement behind the wheel of a fancy sports car.

“Let’s be honest,” he says. “How often do you get paid to drive a Lamborghini?”

Originally from Minnesota, Noah moved to Indianapolis in 1999 to work for a company that supplies robotics and assembly equipment for the automobile industry.

Throughout the past two decades, he worked for various automotive companies before retiring in December of 2019.

Noah had a good friend who was an instructor with Porsche Club of America, whose members get together at tracks around the country for high-performance driver education (HPDE). Though these are not racing events, they allow laymen to rent out a track for the weekend and learn how to In 2013, Noah purchased a vehicle he could use on the track, then started going to these drive performance cars. weekend events. As he gained experience, he moved through the ranks from novice to intermediate to advanced. After five years, he applied to become an instructor with a club out of Cincinnati called 10/10ths Motorsports.

“These HPDE weekends enable people to drive their car in a controlled environment,” Noah says. “Though there are no prizes, this is a full speed race.”

In September of 2020, Noah was hired to be a professional driving instructor for Xtreme Xperience, a company out of Chicago that has a fleet of cars such as Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Porsches and McLarens.

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“You’re in a half-a-million-dollar car going 140 miles per hour,” Noah says.

“They want people they can trust.”

Instructors arrive in the early morning to test cars and warm them up. Around 9 a.m. they start taking people out on the track to satiate their need for speed. Usually the guest is behind the wheel and Noah is the passenger, but sometimes they ask him to drive.

“You have to profile people to see where they are comfortable, and be sensitive to how the car is handling,” Noah says.

“The main goal is safety, but we want them to experience what it’s like to open up the throttle a bit.”

All of the instructors have closed-circuit radio, so they are connected with one another and the pit boss. They know what the other cars are doing, making it a safe environment. Having said that, this high-octane fun is intense and hectic, which means that Noah must remain sharp all day long. To do that, he stays in tip-top shape, training like a professional athlete by following a regular regimen every day that he’s not on the track.

“In this job, if you lose focus and make a mistake, it’s bad,” says Noah, who combines strength and endurance training with agility training, flexibility and core training, and hand-eye coordination exercises. A lifelong athlete, Noah is both an alpine skier and karate instructor.

He goes to Michigan almost every weekend during the winter. He also skis in

West Virginia and Colorado, and attends race camps in Switzerland. He competes in the oldest and largest national amateur racing program in the world, and is a twotime national champion in his age group.

Four decades ago, Noah met his wife Tsuyako in Okinawa, Japan, when he was studying karate.

“When I lived in Japan, I competed on the U.S. World Championship team,” Noah says. “It’s been a lifelong activity for me.”

Married for 41 years, the couple has a son named George, an Air Force major currently at Northern Arizona University and an instructor with the Reserve Officers Training Corps program. They also have a daughter named Leiona, who lives in Hollywood, Florida, where she is a law school student.

Tsuyako, who worked in the Avon school district for many years before retiring, has been supportive of her active, adventurous hubby and all of his hobbies. Now that they are both retired, she usually accompanies him on his skiing and racing adventures.

Though Noah enjoys his job, he recognizes that it’s not for everybody.

“It’s mentally and physically demanding,” he says.

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of the ship, drop the anchor, and it pulls the ship forward. They repeat this over and over again and, slowly but surely, they move the boat forward.

“A dream is a great thing, but to be a goal you have to quantify it,” Noah says. “Set a goal and then ask yourself what you have to do to reach it.”

Suffice it to say, Noah is relishing retirement.

“I like the challenge associated with this career, the camaraderie of the instructor core and the enjoyment of driving full race speed in this car,” says Noah, who admits that this job was not originally on his radar. In fact, he was considering driving a delivery truck post-retirement, just to stay active. Then this opportunity came along.

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Nearly 20 years ago, the former senior pastor of Kingsway Christian Church, John Caldwell, regularly preached a vision sermon, as he had a dream of forming a care center that would include not just a food pantry and clothing ministry, but medical care as well. He wanted to find a way to provide low-cost, quality health care to individuals who don’t carry health insurance, since roughly 8% to 10% of the Hendricks County population does not have health insurance.

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renamed Hope Healthcare Services, was born. Leaders of the nonprofit, incorporated in 2004, officially opened the doors in June of 2005. A month later, an oral surgeon from Kingsway, Dr. Rob McDonough, heard about the vision and offered his dental services as well.

Several years ago, the United Way did a study that perfectly defined Hope’s patient population. These folks fell under the designation of ALICE, an acronym for access limited, income constrained and employed. If someone’s income falls below the federal poverty guidelines, the staff at Hope Healthcare will encourage them to sign up for insurance through the government programs. The problem is that many don’t qualify for government programs because they earn too much, yet they don’t make enough money to cover basics like housing, transportation, child care, food and health care.

“Many times health insurance is the one that gets dropped,” says John Mollaun, executive director of Hope Healthcare Services since 2007.

“Folks think, ‘I feel OK. I’ll get it later.’ ” According to Mollaun, 59% of businesses in Hendricks County staff four or fewer employees. That means the employer is not required to provide insurance.

“That’s a large portion of people who are falling through the cracks - people who work at a small business or entrepreneurs or seasonal workers,” Mollaun says. “It could also be a situation where a family breaks up. One spouse had insurance and the other didn’t. Now the one without insurance is left to fend for themselves. There are myriad of reasons a person may find themselves uninsured. We’re here to catch those who are falling through the cracks and hopefully help them get better health.”

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input. Hope is the word that sprang to mind because it’s the feeling that abounds.

“They said, ‘Hope is what you are to us,’” Mollaun says.

In 2019, Indiana University Health Foundation provided a two-year grant that enabled Hope Healthcare to hire their first staff practitioners - a physician’s assistant one day per week and a nurse practitioner one day per week. This was a big deal because up until then, they only worked with volunteers. Volunteers have full-time jobs, which means most of them are only able to work a single threeto four-hour shift per month. Though that grant ended in 2020, they have been able to continue staffing through other fundraising.

Currently, in terms of volunteers, Hope Healthcare has two pediatricians, a urologist, a gynecologist, a chiropractor, a dermatologist, a dietician, an endodontist who does root canals, and an oral surgeon. The dentists are able to provide cleanings, fillings, extractions, crowns and dentures. In addition, Ann McCafferty with the Indiana Rural Health Association comes in one day per week to help patients file for insurance.

She also connects folks to all kinds of available resources.

“I could lose any of these services at any time should they choose to stop volunteering,” Mollaun says. “I could also gain a new service at any time.

For instance, a neurologist recently expressed an interest in possibly volunteering.”

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When patients come to Hope Healthcare, they pay a nominal fee at the time of service.

“We are not a free clinic because it allows us to continue at a much higher capacity,” Mollaun says. “We also think it adds dignity to the patients that they are paying something for the services.”

A visit with a staff provider is $30, and it costs $10 to see a volunteer.

Make no mistake - this is not a charity clinic offering substandard care. The doctors who volunteer here are the same ones you’ll see in local hospitals and health-care offices.

Though Hope Healthcare has had some of the same volunteers since its inception, most of them typically volunteer for several years until changing life circumstances no longer make it viable.

“Sometimes volunteers say they’d like to come in once a week, but we don’t want our volunteers to burn themselves out so we suggest volunteering once a month,” Mollaun says.

Though Hope Healthcare Services is a faith-based clinic, they see people of any faith or no faith at all.

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It’s kind of the heart and soul of who we are. We love people unconditionally.”

Patients can typically see a medical practitioner within a day or two. The dental side, however, is booked out by several months. The primary question Mollaun fields is from people wanting to know whether they can see a dentist at Hope if they have medical insurance but not dental insurance.

Unfortunately the answer is no, simply due to capacity.

“If I took everyone who has medical insurance but no dental insurance, we’d be booked 900 years into the future because most people don’t have dental insurance,” Mollaun says. “Our only criteria here is that you carry no insurance - no VA, no Medicare, no Medicaid, no private medical or private dental.”

The one exception to that rule is if someone has Medicare Part A for hospitalization only, or Medicaid for emergency only.

Despite the challenges the pandemic has presented, some positives emerged from the experience. For instance, they began offering car-side visits and telehealth appointments.

They also developed new alliances with local schools because when most of their senior student volunteers dropped out, that gap was filled by student workers from Avon High School and other learning institutions.

“I honestly think we became a stronger clinic,” says Mollaun, who is pleased by the overwhelming community support for Hope Healthcare.

For instance, a whopping 90% of their equipment and furniture in the building was donated. “It’s beautiful to see the way everyone has rallied around us to fulfill this need.”

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Sometimes the people who offer the community the most support need support themselves. The Avon Public Safety Foundation (APSF) provides that support. This nonprofit foundation provides financial support and resources to first responders in Avon and Washington Township.

Emily Perry, the APSF board president, says the police and fire departments often have special needs that the Town of Avon budget does not cover, and since these departments are public entities, they cannot receive donations from the community.

access resources for special projects, apply for grants, and things like that.”

“The foundation allows us to accept donations so that we can meet some of those needs that our first responders have,” Perry says.

The APSF is proud to donate approximately $10,000 per year to local law enforcement and fire departments, depending on individual needs.

Perry is particularly passionate about supporting first responders. She works with them daily in her position as executive director of Susie’s Place, a child advocacy center that works to prevent and respond to reports of crimes against children. The APSF was started in 2015, and Perry jumped on board in 2016.

One of the special projects APSF supports is National Night Out, an annual community-building event meant to promote the partnership between the community and police. The APSF provides behind-thescenes support for the event. They also sell T-shirts every year with a specific design for each event.

“The original idea came from a small group in the community who were key stakeholders,” Perry says. “They wanted to create opportunity to provide support to first responders, making it easier for them to

The APSF also supports the Avon Police Department’s K-9 unit.

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Perry particularly loves supporting the K-9s because the community has a great deal of interest in them.

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The APSF has also helped fund an awards lunch and recognition ceremony for the Washington Township/ Avon Fire Department, and helped to support the Explorers Program for the Police Department, a program that helps youth learn about law enforcement.

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now for a host of reasons. It was hard in 2015 but it has become increasingly challenging to stay in these fields.”

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“It’s the little things too that make a difference,” Perry says. “We want them to know how much we appreciate them.”

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“They’ve consistently been here in our time of need, when we need an emergent response in situations we are facing,” Perry says. “I can say thank you in a lot of ways, but showing up with this and paying it forward helps me show them how much I appreciate them.”

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