Discover more beyond your front door.

Community Participation Support is about much more than outings. Every experience is an opportunity to build confidence, independence, friendships, communication skills, and real connections to the place you live.

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Why it matters

A community you visit is not the same as a community you belong to.

Plenty of programs will take a group of adults somewhere on a Wednesday. Far fewer ask whether anyone in that group actually wanted to go, learned anything, or came home with a person they would text later.

We plan around the individual. If someone loves trains, we find the railway museum, then the model shop, then the volunteer who runs the club. If someone hates crowds, we go early and we go somewhere quiet. The point is not attendance. The point is that the day belonged to them.

What it looks like

Chosen around interests, not around a bus route.

Activities may include parks, museums, restaurants, shopping, volunteer opportunities, fitness, libraries, and local events. Here are a few of the shapes a day takes.

Friends sitting together on the grass in a park on a sunny afternoon

Parks and open air

Walking trails, a picnic, a bench with a view. Low pressure, high reward, and easy to repeat until it becomes a habit.

A group of friends laughing together outdoors on a bright afternoon

Volunteering

A food pantry shift, a community garden, a library sort. Being needed changes how a person carries themselves.

Three friends standing shoulder to shoulder, laughing together

Local events

Farmers markets, street fairs, a high school game. Practising the ordinary social skills that only happen in a crowd.

Two people looking at a tablet together, working something out

Libraries and learning

Getting a library card, using the computers, joining a class. Public buildings belong to everybody, including us.

A health check in progress, with careful attention being paid

Fitness and movement

A gym membership actually used, a walking group, a swim. Health goals that do not feel like a medical appointment.

How it improves a life

The change shows up outside the session.

Ordering for yourself at the counter instead of pointing
Recognising a familiar face and being recognized back
Knowing which bus, which door, which floor, without asking
Having something to talk about at dinner on Sunday
Being invited to something by someone who is not staff

A group of friends posing together with arms around each other

Straight answers

Questions we get asked about this service.

If yours is not here, call 484-378-2277 and ask. We would rather answer it now than have you guess.

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Small, and often one to one. Group size is decided by what the individual can enjoy rather than by what is efficient for us. If someone finds crowds hard, we go early, we go somewhere quiet, and we go with one person.

Support hours cover the staff time. Admission fees, meals and personal purchases are the individual’s own, and we agree a rough budget with the family before any outing so nobody is surprised. Plenty of the best days out cost nothing.

Then we do not go. A refusal is information, not a behavior to manage. We use the time on something else they choose, note what happened, and try a different approach next week.

One next step

Tell us one thing they love doing.

That is enough to begin. We build the first session around it and work outward from there, and we reply within one business day.