Our Place Art Organization Incorporated

Our Place Art Organization Incorporated mission is to enrich the lives of individuals with disabilities through the arts.

Our Place Art Organization is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded in 2013 that provides programs and services for individuals with Autism and other special needs. We are dedicated to enriching their lives through the arts. We offer the following programs:

•Arts and Garden Program: Therapeutic workshops for youth and young adults to explore various creative arts and disciplines including: art, music, dance, and sensory friendly gardening. Our Place Art often collaborates with other community organization on special projects.

•Our Place Art Camps: Seasonal camps offered to youth and young adults that provides therapeutic programs in: art, dance, music, and teaching basic life skills.

•Education & Life-Skills Program: After-school and weekend workshops for youth and young adults to work independently and cooperatively with their same age peers in academic and non-academic settings (i.e. cooking club at Whole Foods). The goal of this program is to ensure that individuals develop appropriate socialization skills, establish long-term transition goals, and develop a sense of self-determination in making current and future life choices.

•Career Readiness Program: This program assists transitional age youth and young adults with finding permanent employment and developing specific job skills.

•Family & Community Program: Monthly community events and trainings to raise disability awareness, support groups for parents and siblings of individuals with disabilities, and annual Our Place Art Back to School: Health & Disability Resource Fair.