Family Support

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Our Place Art Organization Incorporated offers education and workshops for parents, caregivers and siblings of individuals with Autism and other disabilities. Workshop topics include areas of interest in special education, including information on the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the Individualized Education Plan (IEP) program, early childhood, the area of transition for students 14-22 (housing, post secondary, employment, and community), assistive technology, sibling support and many more. 

In addition, we offer monthly community events and trainings to raise disability awareness, support groups for parents and siblings of individuals with disabilities, and annual Our Place Art Back to School: Health & Disability Resource Fair. 

“How do you thank someone for providing not just a place for my child to experience art but a place where she belonged, made friends, explored her world? It's much more than art to her to us. We live in a world that often provides very little respite from the stress of daily living with disabilities and Our Place Art made us forget about our problems and focus on our ABILITIES! The Art Show gave to Emily and all others a sense of accomplishment and each child had art they could be proud to share. Thank you so much. You offered a place to do art and gave so so much more!"

Amy,

Parent of Our Place Art Participant

“Our Place did an excellent job not only meeting Ally's social needs but encouraging her to use art to express her creativity. Her work was frankly astonishing, in light of her physical limitations. The end of the summer art show demonstrated that Ally was not only one with latent talents."

Martin,

​Parent of Our Place Art Participant