Welcome!

Our Daughters' Home

Located in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, Our Daughters' Home was created by some concerned, aging parents that want their special needs girls to live as independently as possible, away from their family, but with family engagement and support.

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 Daughters' Home in partnership with Habitat for Humanity Peterborough is now collecting donations for our build.

Please click our DONATE button below!

in Peterborough on Thursday June 27, 2024. Clifford Skarstedt Peterborough Examiner
Girls and their parents
June 2024

Why Do We Need This Home?

"A recent media release from Inclusion Canada, a national federation supporting the inclusion and rights of people with an intellectual disability and their families, states that people with intellectual disabilities are five times more likely than those without a disability to experience sexual assault. The release goes on to say that they are most often abused by people paid to support and care for them or people in relationships of trust.” (Kawartha Now article)

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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 web site, 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!

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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

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

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.

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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.

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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!

 

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 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