About us
Our Place Nashville is the sole organization in Nashville empowering Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) by helping them secure affordable housing and meaningful work within inclusive communities designed to surround them for a lifetime.
Did you know
we call our residents with IDD our Friends? Did you know that we're opening up our new Friendship Houses to senior volunteer residents as well as graduate student resident volunteers? Did you know that we partner with Neighborhood Health to offer medical, dental, emotional and women's care at $25 a visit or less? Did you know we offer free life skills classes to our residents and individuals on our waiting list? Did you know that we keep our families abreast of issues by hosting 2 community meetings a year? Did you know...
100%
of our friends have jobs
compared to 17% of Tennessee's IDD population.
30
individuals in need of affordable housing are served
in 2 Friendship Houses: 11 Friends and 19 graduate students.
3
new friendship houses
are planned to open in 2019 and 2020 to serve 50 more people.
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Our Place Nashville to partner with Woodbine Community Organization in 2019.