Inspiring and Informing Organizations
...In Nashville
Vanderbilt Kennedy Center - disability research and programming for folks with disabilities
Center for Living and Learning - residential home and day program for adults with mental health issues and developmental disabilities
Young Life Capernaum - interdenominational Christian organization connecting youth and adults with intellectual disabilities
Friends Life - holistic day program and vision for home of adults with intellectual disabilities
Stone Soup - church-based respite program for adults with intellectual disabilities
Residential and day services agencies, including employment:
-Progress, Inc. - My employer for 1 1/2 years after Divinity school - live-in companion model of residential services
-Rochelle Center
-New Horizons Corp
...International
L'arche - faith-based (interfaith), adults with and without intellectual disabilities sharing life together in the manner of a family - also sometimes involves workshops and supporting more independent living situations, but home life tends to be the primary locus of mutual relationships
-founded in France in the 1964
-more than 140 communities in 36 countries
Camphill - spiritually-based, persons with and without intellectual disabilities sharing life together, more intergenerational in scope (most often adults, but sometimes children/youth/young adults are at the heart of the community), more agricultural, often with a daytime productive piece for adults or school for children
-founded in Scotland in the 1940's
-more than 100 communities in 22 countries
