by Lauren Zook | Nov 16, 2021 | Advocacy Through The Arts, Stories, Uncategorized
By Heather Dawn, Visual Arts Specialist Each week for the past seven months, Lauren has met with Friends Life Community Visual Arts Specialist Heather Dawn for one-on-one art coaching. During this creativity-focused time, Lauren discovered that true self-empowerment...
by Lauren Zook | Oct 24, 2021 | Advocacy Through The Arts
By: Waverly Ann Harris, M.S.Ed. When was the last time you cried during a movie? What about it evoked such emotion that you were moved to tears? Film is a medium that has the power to transport us through a web of reality and dreams. We see ourselves in the storyline....
by Lauren Zook | Oct 17, 2021 | Inclusive Employment, Life Skills, Uncategorized
By Patsy Webb, M.A.Ed.S., C.E.S.P., Program Director: Dream, Grow, Achieve The Friends are extremely excited about their Treat Truck! Going into the community, bringing smiles to the faces of our neighbors, and serving people are some of their favorite activities at...
by Lauren Zook | May 4, 2021 | Community Partnerships, Events, Inclusive Employment, Stories
“This is a fun story and really pretty doable for someone with the energy to make it happen. What a great idea to have an ice cream truck that isn’t driven by a creepy guy!” This was the email I received the from one of our founders at Friends Life Community (FLC),...
by Lauren Zook | May 29, 2020 | Daily Life, Stories
By: Waverly Ann Harris 1) “What We Are Made Of” 2) “Keep Calm and Go with the Flow” 3) “You Are All Heroes to Me” In 2018, ten of the Friends wrote a play called, “What We Are Made Of” and performed it live as a traveling theatre troupe called Tandem Troupe. In...
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