Douglas Acres

 

Douglas Acres is a Pennsylvania non-profit corporation, which is intended to provide a residential, life-long facility for severely autistic and developmentally disabled adults. A unique feature will be the establishment of an “intentional community,” that is, a community of families with autistic members, who will live on or near the grounds of the facility. The intention is to keep the family directly involved with the handicapped individual’s life, while offering professional support where needed. That direct involvement will also help serve as a check on the many abuses that handicapped people are subject to in more impersonal placements.

 

The first Douglas Acres campus will have the following characteristics:

 

* The most modern treatments for autism available, including dietary and medical treatment where applicable.

* Healthy, educational, daily activities for autistic family members.

* A spacious, clean, healthy, safe environment.

 

Campus sizes we've looked at range from 100 to 640 acres, with room for at least 50 families on the first campus.  We anticipate that housing will be leased to families on campus.

 

For more information, please write to the post office box or e-mail address below.  If you want to support us, please buy a book from Pocono Armchair Review Press, from which the profits will be used to help support Douglas Acres.  You may also donate directly to Douglas Acres at the address below.  At this time, donations are not tax deductible, as Douglas Acres is not a 501c3 organization, and is not planning to become one in the near future because of free-speech restrictions on such organizations.  We may decide to change our status later on if circumstances require it.