Larche Tahoma Hope Community

L’Arche Tahoma Hope Community (LTHC) is a part of an international organization that makes known the gifts of people with intellectual disabilities. Our facilities in Tacoma include three homes, the Farm & Gardens, and the Welcome Center. A total of 16 core members (individuals with  intellectual disabilities) live in our fully-licensed Group/Adult Family Homes, and three additional core members live with family and participate in supported employment on the Farm. About 50 families with adults with intellectual disabilities living outside of L’Arche participate regularly in our community life.  

LTHC is also an employer, with 45-50 staff ranging in age from 18 to 70+ years old and with anywhere from a few days to more than 30 years spent with the community. We live our mission of welcome through hosting immersion groups, guests, volunteer groups, and individual volunteers from the neighborhood to around the world.  

As a not-for-profit organization, LTHC relies on a variety of sources of support in addition to  government funding for the services we provide. Those sources include individuals, churches, businesses, foundations, our annual auction, matching gifts, and donor voice programs, all of which help ensure that L'Arche Tahoma Hope can continue to sustain our mission.

The Mission of L’Arche

To make known the gifts of people

with intellectual disabilities,

revealed through mutually transforming

relationships;

To foster an environment in community

that responds to the changing needs of

our members, while being faithful to the

core values of our founding story;

To engage in our diverse cultures,

working together toward a more human

society.