Heartbeet is a vibrant lifesharing Camphill community and licensed therapeutic residence that includes adults with developmental disabilities and interweaves the social and agricultural realms for the healing and renewing of our society and the earth. Community members live and work together, in beautiful extended family households, forming a mutually supportive environment that enables each individual to discover and develop their unique abilities and potential.
How to Join Heartbeet
Friends Admissions:Heartbeet Lifesharing is accepting inquiries for the admissions of new Friends to our residential community. Your first step to express your interest is to email [email protected] and leave your name along with your applicant’s name and age. Gregg Davis, a member of the Friends Admissions Team, will respond to your email with further information about the admissions process at Heartbeet.Please do not call the Main Office or leave messages on the Main Office phone. Thank you very much.We look forward to communicating with you soon!
Heartbeet is a licensed Therapeutic Community Residence which includes adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, known at Heartbeet as “Friends”. There is no limited catchment area. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
Applicants should be at least 21 years of age. Under extraordinary circumstances a person under the age of 21 may be admitted if it has been determined by the relevant education authorities that this individual will not benefit from any further academic education and the requisite emotional maturity has been developed to warrant placement in an adult setting. Heartbeet is not reviewing such applications at this time.
In addition, Heartbeet does not currently have the staff expertise or physical infrastructure and equipment necessary to meet the needs of elderly and infirm residents.
The two basic requirements for admission to Heartbeet are that:
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- The Friend wants to join the Heartbeet Community. After an exploratory visit of two weeks, the prospective community member indicates by word or expressive action that they would like to become a part of the Heartbeet Community.
- The Friend’s needs can be met by the community and the Friend is able to engage in the life of the community in a meaningful way.
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The community is not suitable for and therefore does not accept:
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- People with a primary diagnosis of mental illness
- People with a health condition requiring constant medical supervision or skilled nursing care
- People who are physically violent to self or others
- People who are sexually predatory
- People who would endanger the health or well-being of themselves or others
- People who cannot cope with an open, unrestricted physical environment
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People can remain at Heartbeet for as long as the above requirements hold true and as long as they continue to meet the initial admission criteria. Thus, placements may vary in length from stays as short as a year to others that potentially last a lifetime.