Sister Emma Cottage is a special unit on the Queen Louise Home campus that provides intensive 24 hour residential foster care for children and young adults with severe developmental and physical disabilities. Many of our residents use wheelchairs and have special impairments and are medically fragile.
Sister Emma Cottage came about in the late 1980’s, as Queen Louise Home began to receive many requests for placement of children with severe physical and developmental disabilities. The children required an intensive level of care not possible in the Home’s standard cottages, so a special cottage opened in 1996 to accommodate children with severe disabilites. It was named Sister Emma Cottage in honor of Sister Emma Francis, a Lutheran deaconess who served at the cottages for nearly 40 years.