HISTORY
1956 FALL
Organization formed.
1957, SEPTEMBER 17
First class in Second Baptist Church, with seven young children.
1958-1964
Moved to a two bedroom house and then to a three bedroom house.
1962
Warner Robins Jaycees started a project to build a school
building. Enrollment was 17, ages six to eighteen.
1964, APRIL 18
Building completed and furnished. Completely debt free
through the efforts of the Jaycees and the community. The City
donated land, a lot of building materials were donated and
volunteers did much of the labor.
1966
Two classrooms and an assembly room added. Again, this was
spearheaded by the Jaycees and was completely paid for when
finished.
1968
The decision was made that we need a vocational type workshop.
A foundation gave us $75,000 on the condition that we raise $25,000
and they would give $25,000. After we raised the second $25,000,
they said they were convinced that we could finish the building and
gave us the last $25,000.
1970
August Happy Hour Workshop I (Callahan Building) opened.
Again, completely furnished and paid for by the community.
This included a cafeteria.
1972
Received first operational funding from the Georgia Department
of Human Resources.
1974
Addition completed to the Callahan Building.
1976
A new Wing with four classrooms, speech therapy room, and a new
modern kitchen and dining room were added to the school (Jay Ryals'
Annex), another community effort.
1983
Purchased 29.6 acres of land adjacent to our property that had
been declared surplus by Robins Air Force Base.
1985
Completed Happy Hour Workshop II (McCannon Building). This was
partially financed by a loan from the SBA for $150,000. This
loan has been paid in full. The balance of the cost was raised
through the Association efforts and the community.
1984 – 1986
Refurbished the dormitory building located on the property
purchased from the government. This building is leased to the
Phoenix Center and provided a source of income to the Association.
1993, MARCH
Two group homes completed (Falcon Park I and Falcon Park II).
These were funded by a grant from HUD and each one has four
consumers.
1993, SEPTEMBER
Workshop III opened. Again, a partial loan from SBA plus our
resources and the community was used to complete this building.
1996 – 1997
Addition to Workshop III completed using our resources and the
community.
2002
$626,000 funding approved by HUD for our Falcon Park III
semi-independent living apartment building consisting of six one bedroom and two two bedroom apartments, plus facilities
for a resident manager.
2005
The opening of our 17,510 sq. ft. Falcon Park III apartments located
at 321 Myrtle Street in Warner Robins, Georgia.