by Camille Mayle | Mar 20, 2023 | Community Partnerships, Daily Life, Stories
A shared concern brought them together. A commitment to their loved ones drove them to action. A mutual vision of creating a real and meaningful community for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in Nashville brought Friends Life Community to...
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 | 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 Camille Mayle | Apr 7, 2021 | Inclusive Employment, Stories
By Patsy Webb, M.A.Ed.S., and FLC Career Coach Generations of people across the world now have a better understanding of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) because of Dr. Temple Grandin. On Feb. 27, Dr. Grandin joined some of the Friends and Friends Life Community (FLC)...
by Camille Mayle | Mar 11, 2021 | Community Partnerships, Family Resources, Inclusive Employment, Stories
By David Dunkin, parent of Kaylea Having a job is an important part of Kaylea’s quality of life. It is part of her vision of being an adult and living the independent lifestyle that she wants to achieve. We have seen how it really builds her self-esteem because she...
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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