About Friendship Ark Homes

Why Friendship Ark Homes?

	Iowa continues to face a shortage of community-based residential options for persons with intellectual disabilities.
	Friendship Ark Homes provides services cost effectively within the community.
	Persons with disabilities now have the option of living in a more family-like environment that emphasizes the total person - physical, emotional, and spiritual.
	Friendship Ark Homes is the only provider in Central Iowa modeled after the L'Arche community, a highly successful way of empowering persons with disabilities, replicated in more than 120 locations in 30 countries.
	Friendship Ark Homes has the support of other residential providers, local government officials, churches, and advocacy groups.