Future Forward: Planning for Life Beyond Transition
May
17

Future Forward: Planning for Life Beyond Transition

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High Spirit Advisory will have a table at this event, where you can talk to High Spirit Board Members and Founders and learn more about our services.

Join The Perkins School Transitions Center on Saturday, May 17, 2025 for an in-person transition event focused on planning a life beyond the transition from high school.

Designed for families, caregivers of young adults and professionals, this interactive sessions will include:

  • Building a Transition Life Plan.

  • Everything you need to know about Special Needs Trusts.

  • How to maximize SSI, SSDI, insurance, SNAP, Section 8 housing, utility discounts, and how to combine these benefits.

  • Coffee, pastries and lunch

  • Opportunity to connect with other parents and professionals about transition.

Learn More and Purchase Tickets

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Raising Bar Film Screening and Discussion - Coolidge Corners
May
7

Raising Bar Film Screening and Discussion - Coolidge Corners

Raising Bar is a film that sheds light on the lives of young adults with intellectual disabilities and the price they pay for simply turning 22. Bar is 37, and it is the trajectory of his life that shows the obstacles and the possibilities this community faces as their families and other caregivers seek to provide them with rich, meaningful, and connected lives.

Following the 40-minute movie you are invited to stay for conversation with High Spirit Staff, Founders, and each other to talk about how to develop and advocate for more residential communities like High Spirit Community Farm.

Doors Open at 6:30pm. Purchase your tickets here:

Tickets for: adults with IDD/Autism, family members of individuals with disabilities, Professionals in the field

Tickets for: Supportive friends and community members - Thank you for your active allyship!

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Volunteer Work Party
May
3

Volunteer Work Party

Join us at High Spirit Community Farm on May 3rd…

We’ll be working on a new irrigation system, moving a shed, and landscape clean-up. Bring garden or work gloves.

High Spirit will provide the main course for lunch. You could bring a side dish, drinks, or something sweet to share.

We hope to see you there! We will send you more details after receiving your RSVP.

RSVP Here

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Introduction to High Spirit Advisory Monthly Meetup
Apr
15

Introduction to High Spirit Advisory Monthly Meetup

Join High Spirit Advisory and other families and individuals who are exploring unique options for Residential Care for adults with IDD. We will watch our 15 minute film, Raising Bar together, and then discuss the High Spirit Model of Care and how High Spirit Advisory will assist you in building a program based on that model. REGISTER HERE for this event.

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Raising Bar: Film Screening
Apr
3

Raising Bar: Film Screening

What happens when the safety net disappears? In the world of intellectual and developmental disabilities, they call it "the cliff" - that moment at age 22 when school funding abruptly ends and millions of young adults face an uncertain future. For Bar Swain and his parents, Bob and Ginny, this looming reality sparked a journey that would transform not just their lives, but potentially countless others.
Raising Bar follows Bar's path through the Massachusetts school system, where initial struggles give way to a life-changing discovery: the Camphill School in Pennsylvania where Bar thrives in ways his family never imagined possible.
But the cliff still awaits. With 86% of young adults with intellectual disabilities retreating into isolation at home after aging out of school services, Bar's parents refuse to accept this as their son's fate. The film chronicles their bold response - the creation of High Spirit Community Farm, an innovative living space designed to provide what existing group homes often lack: stability, purpose, and genuine community.
Through intimate family moments and wider societal context, Raising Bar doesn't just illuminate a hidden crisis affecting millions of American families - it offers a vision of what's possible when we refuse to accept the status quo and instead build the world we wish to see.

Stay After the film for a panel discussion with the Filmmaker, BIlly Parker, and High Spirit Founders - and learn how we might guide you in your journey to develop a similar home for your loved-ones.

Register Here for Free Tickets!

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Cotting School Transition Resource Fair
Mar
19

Cotting School Transition Resource Fair

Join High Spirit Advisory at the Cotting School Campus Center for their 2025 Transition Resource Fair! The fair focuses on students’ future options as they prepare for next steps after  completing high school.  Attendees will have the opportunity to meet exhibitors from a variety of adult support service providers as well as Massachusetts state agencies.

High Spirit Advisory will have a table at the fair where you can connect with us in person, learn more about our model of adult care, and ask us your questions.

This event is FREE and open to the public.

https://www.cotting.org/event/transition-resource-fair/

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Introduction to High Spirit Advisory - Monthly Virtual Meetup
Mar
18

Introduction to High Spirit Advisory - Monthly Virtual Meetup

Join High Spirit Advisory and other families and individuals who are exploring unique options for Residential Care for adults with IDD. We will watch our 15 minute film, Raising Bar together, and then discuss the High Spirit Model of Care and how High Spirit Advisory will assist you in building a program based on that model. REGISTER HERE for this event.

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Introduction to High Spirit Advisory - Monthly Virtual Meetup
Feb
17

Introduction to High Spirit Advisory - Monthly Virtual Meetup

Join High Spirit Advisory and other families and individuals who are exploring unique options for Residential Care for adults with IDD. We will watch our 15 minute film, Raising Bar together, and then discuss the High Spirit Model of Care and how High Spirit Advisory will assist you in building a program based on that model. REGISTER HERE for this event.

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Introduction to High Spirit Advisory - Monthly Virtual Meetup  (Copy)
Jan
21

Introduction to High Spirit Advisory - Monthly Virtual Meetup (Copy)

Join High Spirit Advisory and other families and individuals who are exploring unique options for Residential Care for adults with IDD. We will watch our 15 minute film, Raising Bar together, and then discuss the High Spirit Model of Care and how High Spirit Advisory will assist you in building a program based on that model. REGISTER HERE for this event.

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Introduction to High Spirit Advisory - Monthly Virtual Meetup
Dec
17

Introduction to High Spirit Advisory - Monthly Virtual Meetup

Join High Spirit Advisory and other families and individuals who are exploring unique options for Residential Care for adults with IDD. We will watch our 15 minute film, Raising Bar together, and then discuss the High Spirit Model of Care and how High Spirit Advisory will assist you in building a program based on that model. REGISTER HERE for this event.

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Introduction to High Spirit Advisory - Monthly Virtual Meetup
Nov
19

Introduction to High Spirit Advisory - Monthly Virtual Meetup

Join High Spirit Advisory and other families and individuals who are exploring unique options for Residential Care for adults with IDD. We will watch our 15 minute film, Raising Bar together, and then discuss the High Spirit Model of Care and how High Spirit Advisory will assist you in building a program based on that model. REGISTER HERE for this event.

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