About
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What is the Visitation Home?
Visitation Home is a non-profit, faith-based initiative. This shared living community, located in Mercer County, NJ, is a place where developmentally disabled adults and their assistants live together as family, complemented by the support of neighborhood volunteers.- All take part in the social and domestic aspects of home life
- Each resident follows a plan of specific goals & objectives
- Residents will learn work and basic life skills to realize their full potential and enhance self-esteem
This Catholic community supports the spiritual growth of each member and respects each individuals' religious traditions.
Why Visitation Home?
New Jersey has a waiting list exceeding 6,300 people in need of community-based living (Trenton Times, April 30, 2001). Visitation Home is our response to Jean Vanier's (founder of L'arche Communities) vision of a community in which people with disabilities can begin to discover that "they have a value and they are loved and so loveable." After hearing about our plans for Visitation Home, a father of a developmentally disabled child said, "Up until now, every time I thought about my son's future, it was always with worry. For the first time, I can think about it with hope."