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Established in 1976 on our beautiful 77-acre campus, the Meadows at Melmark is an innovative, work-centered program for adults with mild-to-moderate disabilities. Participants live with friends in staff-supervised, single-family homes, or in the community with their families. They perform creative, fulfilling work while enjoying a full range of social, recreational, and athletic activities.

Meadows Creative Workshops generate products throughout the year for sale at craft shows and the Meadows shop. Members in this program become business partners (Guild format) and share profits from the sale of their products based on work habits and productivity. The curriculum includes:

• A horticulture and flower workshop.
This workshop is the heart of the Meadows program. Annual and perennial gardens are planted and harvested, and the magnificent flowers are expertly dried in a spacious drying barn. Beautiful wereaths and basket arrangements are created year round.
• A fiber and art workshop.
This workshop encourages creativity and a personal flair. Weaving, knitting, crocheting, and the making of rugs, scarves, placemats, fabric handbags, winsome fiber figures and dolls give endless pleasure.
• A wood, ceramic, and stencil workshop.
This workshop emphasizes diverse activities that result in unique note cards, bookmarks, clay pots, birdbaths, wind chimes, and assorted woodcrafts.
• Cooking, baking, and kitchen work.
This workshop trains our adults in household chores and allows them the opportunity to sell their baked goods to different offices and departments at Melmark. This experience gives them great joy and pride in seeing their staff hurry to purchase their baked goods.

Opportunities for Social and Personal Development

Adult life requires learning appropriate communication and social skills. Household interactions and meaningful relationships with peers are paramount. The Meadows at Melmark provides a lifestyle that enables residents to continually develop and mature, meet new challenges, and make guided decisions about their daily activities.

Residents actively engage in all the activities available in the local community.