About Gus

Gus is now 18 and just started his senior year of homeschooling. The pandemic put a wrench in his ability to go to school in person. Gus now volunteers at the local coffee shop using his coffee cart program skills to clean tables, stock shelves, and make coffee for the customers. He continues to work hard to gain more verbal communication and better eye contact. He is also using his greetings “Hello, how are you today?” and “Your welcome, have a nice day!” See Gus in action in one of our facebook videos. Being 18, we needed to concentrate more and more on his ability to be independent and self-sustaining in and outside of the home. Through the life skills he has learned and continues to learn and grow from, he is achieving his goal of independence and self-confidence each day, little by little. We worry a little less as the years goes by: What will he do? Where will he live? Who will take care of him? How will he support himself? We won’t be here forever. Many families with kids with disabilities wrestle with these same problems. We thought, he loves people and he loves to work hard.  How do we support Gus when we are not here and more importantly, how will Gus and other kids like him support themselves when their parents are not around. That’s how the Gus Belt Family Foundation idea was born, with the first program idea of the Coffee Cart Program.