Our Place Hires Anna Boudreau, Executive Director
Anna Boudreau: Our New Executive Director
Our Place is Close to Securing Property!
Laurie McIntosh, board chair, is hoping that this is the one!
Our Place featured in Seacoast Online and Fosters Daily Democrat News
Check out this fantastic article where potential residents explain why they would like to see Our Place become a reality.
Our Place Partners with Regan Development
Bear Woods & Lavender Fields in Connecticut
The Our Place Housing Committee has been exploring different options for housing in New Hampshire and beyond. They found out about Bear Woods and Lavender Fields in Connecticut which are large work-force housing projects with housing for adults with IDD mixed in. Both of these projects were created by Regan Development of New York who partnered with the local service agency, The Arc, to create this great model of supportive housing. We are now working with Ken Regan to find property in the seacoast area of New Hampshire to build a similar project.
The project will consist of about 40 units of work-force housing with 10 units reserved for adults with IDD. The apartments for the IDD folks are scattered throughout the building, although there may be two or three clustered together to promote socialization. There would be an office for 24/7 staff with smart technology linking the office to the apartments for monitoring. The project would have a community room for activities involving all the tenants in the building. This would help to promote inclusion of the IDD tenants with the rest of the tenants. Tenants would have their services based on their individual service agreement just like the Visions model.
To learn more about this project, please watch the video on our Youtube channel which describes the features in detail. Regan Development Video. Although we are in the beginning stages of exploring this project as a viable project for New Hampshire, we are very excited about this possibility for adults with IDD who would flourish in this type of housing. We understand that this is not for everyone and we are still moving ahead with our original version which is a building or buildings with apartments for 10 adults.
Our Place Comedy Event is a Great Success!
Doug McIntosh, Andrew Long and James Ouellette entertained the crowd with their comedy routines.
On August 25th Our Place had its first comedy event at The Brook Casino in Seabrook, New Hampshire. The Brook donates a portion of its proceeds to nonprofit organizations, so Our Place will be receiving 35% of the proceeds for the entire week. The event was well-attended with over 200 people who enjoyed the live comedy. Scamps Comedy provided four professional comedians, Dave Rattigan, Tony V, Paul Nardizzi and Mike Karsok who entertained the crowd with their hysterical stories. Our Place had three up-and-coming comedians of its own, Andrew Long, Doug McIntosh, and James Ouellette who performed their own delightful comedy routines. In conjunction with the comedy show there was an online auction with many great items donated by generous individuals and businesses. Our Place wishes to thank our sponsors for this event, Graham Tire and Auto, Port, DF Richard, Kennebunk Savings Bank, Charter Oak Capital Management, Somersworth Physical Therapy and The Airfield Cafe.
Our Place joins the Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce
Ribbon cutting at the Chamber office
Yes, we were cutting a ribbon, but not for our new home. That is still something we are looking forward to! Joining the Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce will provide opportunities to network with other businesses in Dover so that we can be more involved in the community.
