A letter from our founder:

I’m Sarah Nova, the founder and executive manager of NeuroHomes.

I started NeuroHomes with a simple mission: improve the mental health in the adult neurodiverse population, who currently lack in services overall. We achieve this through a threefold approach of: increasing their current therapeutic services offered, providing them low income housing, and uniting the two together through the concept of ‘care farming’, which has been defined as the use of farming and agricultural landscapes to promote mental and physical health through normal farming activities.

While our website mainly focuses on what we are doing and how we do what we do, I want to take a few minutes to unpack why we do what we do.

This nonprofit is a deeply personal passion project. I myself am an autistic woman, and a mother of six children who are all neurodiverse; four have a diagnosis of autism, and two have been diagnosed with ADHD. It is very common for parents of neurodiverse children to worry about what will happen to their children once they age out of school services and become adults, as I do currently. NeuroHomes is a place that, had it already existed, could have potentially saved me from homelessness at least twice personally in my own adult life, making the world a much less frightening and overwhelming place for me. NeuroHomes is a place that I want my 19 year old autistic daughter now raising my first grandchild to live, so they can be supported and safe while living amongst an understanding community of their peers.

We began with the radical yet simple idea that all human life has value, regardless of individual capabilities. And we believe there is dignity in all honest work, regardless of the ability to capitalize on it. But this dignity is often eroded along with our mental health when we are forced to live in oppressive environments that keep us from doing what we do best. We believe that, in its best form, we should all get an opportunity to use our individual gifts and talents to, “put a dent in the universe,” as Steve Jobs challenged. NeuroHomes gives neurodiverse adults the freedom to do that.

The reason we do what we do is to create a better future and change our world into one we can all belong in. We look forward to being the change we want to see in the world and empowering neurodiverse adults for many years to come.

Sarah Nova

Founder and Executive Manager

NeuroHomes

Get in Touch:

PO Box 471

Cathlamet, WA 98612

USA

NeuroHomes@yahoo.com