Innisfree Village

MISSION STATEMENT

Innisfree, a voluntary community with adults with intellectual disabilities, is dedicated to providing a life-sharing home and work environment in an atmosphere of beauty, warmth, and respectfulness. All community members are valued, and all are encouraged to explore a meaningful and challenging life.
STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES
The Principles guiding Innisfree are:
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1. Be a model therapeutic environment with people with intellectual disabilities, emphasizing empowerment, interdependence, and mutual respect of all community members.

2. Evolve with the changing needs of the individuals with intellectual disabilities within the Village community and beyond.

3. Value work and foster creativity through artistic crafts, stewardship of the land, and daily community life.

4. Promote efforts in the stewardship of our land to acknowledge the reciprocal relationship between our human health and our natural environment.

5. Encourage the integration of community members into the larger society through participation in cultural, educational, recreational, religious, and volunteer programs.

6. Rely for its financial resources upon family support, the spirit of volunteerism, and private funding.

7. Support and encourage the talents and individuality of community members from diverse educational, national, ethnic and social backgrounds.

Innisfree, incorporated in 1971, is a nonprofit corporation governed by a Board of Directors. While the business of the corporation and its finances shall be dealt with exclusively by the Board of the Corporation, the desires and opinions of the Village community shall be solicited, expressed and represented by participation on the Board and Board Committees. Flexibility in the manner of control and direction by the Board should be the norm. Open communication shall be maintained among all those responsible for the administration of the Village and its everyday life. Read More

• About Us
  The position we are looking to fill is the Residential Caregiver position. This is a volunteer position with great benefits. We have 10 family style homes in our community with 2-5 coworkers (adults with disabilities) and 1-3 volunteers living together in each house. The first month of your year, is an orientation period where you are learning about the community and about the coworkers you are living with. You also receive CPR, First Aid and are trained as a Medication Administrator Assistant. A college degree is not required but we are looking for adults 21 years and older who have some work or volunteer experience. We are looking for a period of service of 1 year, minimum.
  In addition to the work in the home, we all work together in our various therapeutic workstations: the weavery, herb and vegetable gardens, on the farm with 400 chickens and about 30 sheep, the kitchen, art studio, woodworking and bakery. We are known in the area for the beauty of our products.
  Our volunteers come from around the world and are ages 21 - 70! A year of Service, a Lifetime of Memories!
• Our Impact
  We provide a shared life for adults with intellectual disabilities who could not live alone unsupported. We live on a beautiful 550 acre farm and are home to 40 adults with disabilities and the 40 volunteers and staff who support them. We help people have meaningful relationships, and have productive and therapeutic activities in a caring environment; to be their best selves.