Website: http://www.friendsoflarchesfba.org
City: Palo Alto
State: California
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Contact Email: beth@friendsoflarchesfba.org
Contact Phone: 650-245-2726
Contact Name: Beth Goddard
Friends of L’Arche San Francisco Bay Area is in the exploratory stage with L’Arche USA with the intention of creating housing and activities for people with and without intellectual disabilities (ID). We are all transformed by working together to create home, share life, and build community. We give and receive compassionate care and friendship as a community that fosters a deeper experience of being human. We welcome people of all backgrounds and spiritual journeys to find connection and belonging.
People with disabilities experience disproportionately high rates of discrimination, poverty, poor mental and physical health outcomes, and marginalization. Our society does not recognize one of the most important needs of all – the need to belong. Belonging is a need felt by all people, but it is often neglected for people with intellectual disabilities. L’Arche USA addresses this common need for belonging and the isolation and loneliness that people with intellectual disabilities face through our intentional model of fostering mutual relationships.
A small group of friends have been meeting since 2016 and are in regular contact with L’Arche USA and L’Arche International which was founded in the 1970s and has more than 150 communities worldwide.