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In the Media: What Christmas means to adults with disabilities

Making Home: Why We Fundraise

For core members, L’Arche offers a lifelong home with deep relational connection. Relationships grow between community members, across differences, especially between people with and people without disabilities.

Eileen gets animated! Project Impact video

Liddy’s L’Arche story: Enoughness

“No place makes me feel more in love with this earth, with this here and now, with these treasures right before my eyes, than that warm and bright L’Arche bubble."

The Light of L’Arche: 2022 Annual Report

It is because of core members, assistants, leaders, friends, volunteers, and you that the light of L’Arche persists. Our way of life is not always easy, but it is most certainly needed.

Disability & Finances: A Conversation with Liz Yoder, Specialized Financial Planner

We sat down with Liz Yoder to talk about her work in disability and finance. Liz is currently a Special Needs Certified Financial Planning® Professional and Founder of Dependent Financial Planning.

Light of L’Arche: Virtual Fundraiser

Thank you to everyone who showed up to celebrate the Light of L’Arche Fundraiser! Don't miss Dr. Yuko Gibson, MD, former assistant and Home Life Leader at GWDC, sharing her experience of transformation at L'Arche.

Diving Deeper 2022: Healthcare, Employment, & Spirituality

Thank you to everyone who joined us during our Diving Deeper series this year! We enjoyed rousing and reflective discussions about human-centered healthcare, employment and disability, and the spirituality of L’Arche.

“Continue to be a part of the story”: An interview with donor and friend, Erica

My hopes for L’Arche are that it would continue to be a place of welcoming and belonging for so many both core members and individuals with disabilities and also the assistants and others.

Goodbye to “The Red Door”

After many years of thoughtful discussion, discernment, and understanding of our limitations, the board and leadership of the community have determined that we are to sell our much loved Euclid Street House.

We all help each other: Thank You Assistants (National DSP Week)

We are full of gratitude for our assistants! Without assistants, “we wouldn’t be able to do the things that we do, we wouldn’t be able to be who we are today,” says Luke Smith, Community Leader and Executive Director of L’Arche GWDC. 

Overcoming Together: 2021 Annual Report

As we approach the second anniversary of pandemic shutdowns, regulations, and policies, thank you for helping us overcome together. We couldn’t do it alone, and we wouldn’t want to.