Thinking Outside the Box

Mom looks outside system to get help for her son

DAYTON-Sherri Huwe said she will be forever grateful to the many people who helped her wage a long and complicated battle to help her developmentally challenged son, Ben, keep his business intact. Ben lost the funding for his job coach in January 2015, when his greeting card business at Elk Drug in Dayton was deemed unviable by developmental disability services experts.

"We were upset about that, of course," Huwe said. Huwe said she tried for about a year to get funding reinstated, but got nowhere.

So she said she contacted the Northwest Justice...