Welcome to a group dedicated to developing a L’Arche Community on Long Island. We are
delighted that you are visiting our website and hope you join us in our
exciting work to make a L’Arche community a reality in many little
towns and villages all over Long Island.
L’Arche communities are family-like places where people with disabilities live in community with assistants. The emphasis is on ‘living with’ those who are differently-abled and not merely on ‘doing for’ them. We hope for our Long Island L’Arche Communities to feel welcomed and included in the lives of the larger communities in which they are situated.
Our vision is to establish an organization (under the umbrella of L’Arche) to create homes and apartment clusters which are in
keeping with the needs of the persons living in them. The intent is for these homes or apartment clusters to become “adopted” by local communities so as to become integrated into the community-at-large in as many ways as possible.”
Our mission is to create happy, loving, respectful and spiritual community home environments to bridge the gap between persons with neuro-developmental (intellectual) disabilities and the local community.
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