Welcome!
Our Daughters' Home
A Forever Home for Women with Developmental Disabilities
In Ontario, over 28,000 adults with developmental disabilities are waiting for supportive housing—only 6% will receive it. Our Daughters' Home is a community-driven response to this crisis.
Founded by families in Peterborough, Ontario, Our Daughters’ Home (ODH) is building a safe, permanent, and supportive home for seven incredible women. These women have grown up surrounded by love, care, and community. Now, we are working together to create a home that continues that legacy—where they can live with dignity, grow in independence, and receive the wraparound care they need for life.
This is more than a house. It’s a new model that is family-led and built to last.
Learn about each of our daughters and the inspiring community building this home.
Join our mission to make a future as safe as home.
Our Daughters' Home in partnership with Habitat for Humanity Peterborough is collecting donations for our build.
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Our Daughters' Home recently received exciting news. Habitat for Humanity Peterborough will be a building a house for our 7 girls in East City over the next year!! Build slated to be completed December 2025! Our groundbreaking ceremony took place on July 9th! 
Stay tuned for more details on our build!
Why Do We Need This Home?
In Ontario, the housing crisis for adults with developmental disabilities is dire. Waitlists span decades. Families are aging and the public system cannot keep pace.
Our Daughters’ Home changes that.
We are building a safe, sustainable, and community-rooted home—by families, for families. Our daughters have grown up in loving homes. Now, they deserve to transition into adult living with the same care and dignity.
This is a replicable, scalable model powered by hope, family, and community. Together, we can ensure these women have not just a place to stay, but a home to thrive.
Our Mission
To provide immediate, permanent, safe, supportive housing in the Peterborough area for our adult daughters, all who have developmental disabilities.
Our Vision
To provide a home where our daughters will live with dignity, be actively engaged in the community, have a high quality of life, and develop life skills in an enriching environment.
We invite you to learn about Our Daughters' Home and its efforts to build a strong, supportive community around 7 very unique young ladies. Please visit the pages of our website, to become acquainted with each of them, their families, and our community supporters. We hope you will join us in nurturing a strong, supportive community – a community that sees value in all people taking their rightful places as interdependent and meaningfully contributing citizens.
Meet Our Daughters
Each of our daughters has her own unique personality and interests, and will contribute her individual skills and gifts to the home.
Read below to find out more!
Jenny
Jenny's interests and activities include puzzles, walks, kayaking, tubing, boat rides, swimming, youtube, music, alternatives day program, various respite care workers on other days/evenings; likes to write in her journal about her schedule.
Michelle
Michelle's interests and activities include day program on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at Community Living Lindsay. Loves swimming, music, radio with headphones, magazines, books, watching videos on Ipad. Likes the park with the saucer swings.
Leah
Leah is very social, funny and happy. Her interests and activities include music, dancing, breakdancing (with Jimmy!), bowling, swimming, walking and movies. She loves seeing her friends at Alternatives, Kim Sloan’s and Down Syndrome Association activities. She also likes to travel with her family (mostly to Peru). Leah is a good reader and communicates using a combination of speech, her iPad and sign language.
Helena
Helena is a happy, well-behaved young lady. When encouraged, she will speak quietly, but prefers to communicate in writing whether on paper or via her cell phone or ipad. She also uses some of her own sign language. Helena attends a day program at Alternatives and also enjoys horseback riding through PARD Therapeutic Riding. She is a good reader, enjoys music, and can name the artist of any song that plays on the radio! She has a wonderful sense of humour, always appreciating a good joke whether on the telling or receiving end.
Erin
Erin's interests and activities include riding an adult tricycle, car rides, going for a walk in her wheelchair and paddle boat rides. Erin attends Camp Wannakita for a 2 week overnight camp each summer. At camp she kayaks, canoes and assists with mail delivery, stirring the juice for breakfast, going into town with the Counsellors to pick up supplies.
She also enjoys sensory activities such as playing in the sand, stones and water, as well as using a peg board for quiet time. She also enjoys playing a mini keyboard and listening to music.
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Brianna
Brianna's interests and activities include music, swimming, looking after family pets and boat rides. Brianna participates in a day program Monday-Friday and spends a lot of time at the cottage on the weekends. She enjoys family time and has a great sense of humour!
Krista
Krista's interests and activities include Special Olympics sports such as Bocce, Swimming, Bowling, Challenger Baseball. Volunteers at First Choice Haircutters 3 days a week from 1.00PM to 3.00PM