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.