Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Cohousing that integrates a limited number of adult persons with disabilities

[Dennis Clark (dennisclark43]

Here are some more resources to check related to people with disability
living in community.

I belong to CoHo Ecovillage in Corvallis, Oregon.

http://www.cohoecovillage.org/


We have two non-profits for individual with disabilities:

http://ahomeincommunity.org/resources.html
Includes many resources related to disabilities and housing that might be
of interest. We'd be happy to share with Amikaro Cohousing, as we began
this non-profit as part of our development process. And it may be that
we're close enough down I5 to visit sometime.

http://homelifeinc.org/
Is a larger community non-profit that owns and operates a unit for three
women with disabilities.

Please feel free to contact me, or any of the contacts noted at these three
websites.

Dennis Clark



On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 7:52 AM, Alice Alexander <alicecohous [at] gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Marion, there are many cohousing communities who have organically
> incorporated family members with disabilities, perhaps just one family
> within the community. I am not aware of any documented models for success
> for an integrated community with several adult members with disabilities.
>
> You may benefit from reading these blog posts from presenters at the
> National Cohousing Conference in Durham last May, during our "More Than
> Just Cohousing" session led by Laura Fitch.
>
> Also, I encourage you to connect with the North Street Neighborhood
> Community, in Durham Coho, which has been a success.
> http://northstreetneighborhood.weebly.com/
> and Building Ohana in Spokane
> http://www.buildingohana.org/
>
> It Turns Out We’re a Neurodiverse Community
> <http://www.cohousing.org/node/3154>
>
> Neurodiverse Cohousing: What is it and Why does it Matter?
> <http://www.cohousing.org/node/3084>
>
> Good luck!
> Alice Alexander, Coho/US Executive Director
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 2:17 AM, Marion Pape <marionpape [at] shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> >
> > Amikaro Cohousing, a formative urban cohousing project in Victoria,
> > British Columbia is developing a cohousing project that will include 5
> > families with adult children with severe disabilities and the remaining
> > units populated by a diversity of age groups. Just like with seniors who
> > suffer from social isolation, this group of disabled adults, represented
> by
> > their aging adult mothers (50’ and 60’s)and sometimes caregivers is
> looking
> > to build an intentional community that is fully inclusive, removing all
> the
> > barriers.
> >
> > My question is whether anyone knows of any cohousing project that could
> be
> > a successful model for this type of project. If there is no model, can
> you
> > suggest why such an innovation has not developed?
> >
> > Thank you for your thoughts.
> >
> > Marion Pape
> >
> >
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