Peacehaven desires to be a healing presence for those who live at Peacehaven and their families. For those with disabilities and their family members, there is often a greater need for healing souls and spirits than healing their disabling conditions. While society sees "broken" bodies or minds, the Peacehaven community sees lives that are a gift.

Who gets to define normal? Throughout their lives, people with disabilities and their families have faced physical obstacles, stares, good intentions, rejection, invisibility. Peacehaven farm was not created to accommodate people with intellectual and physical disabilities -- but to celebrate them. The founder of L'Arche, Jean Vanier, describes such places as "communities where people whatever their race, culture, abilities or disabilities, can find a place and reveal their gifts to the world".

A place like home. We believe families will experience healing in their lives if their loved ones with disabilities have the opportunity to live independently in a setting where they are valued and able to grow into the people God desires them to be. Parents of a child with a disability have the same dream that other parents have; that their child can go into the world and become part of a new family and contribute to that family's life together.