Mission
Innisfree Village, a voluntary community with adults with intellectual disabilities, is dedicated to providing a lifesharing home and work environment in an atmosphere of beauty, warmth, and respectfulness. All community members are valued, and all are encouraged to explore and contribute to a meaningful and challenging life.
Statement of principles
Innisfree shall:
- Be a model therapeutic environment with people with intellectual disabilities, emphasizing empowerment, interdependence, and mutual respect of all community members
- Evolve with the changing needs of the individuals with intellectual disabilities within the community and beyond
- Value work and foster creativity through artistic crafts, stewardship of the land, and daily community life
- Promote efforts in the stewardship of the land to acknowledge the reciprocal relationship between human health and the natural environment
- Encourage the integration of community members into the larger society through participation in cultural, educational, recreational, religious, and volunteer programs
- Rely for its financial resources upon family support, the spirit of volunteerism, and private funding
- Support and encourage the talents and individuality of community members from diverse educational, national, ethnic, and social backgrounds
