{"id":721224,"date":"2026-06-07T15:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T15:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/721224\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T15:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T15:37:10","slug":"larche-avalon-planning-new-inclusive-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/721224\/","title":{"rendered":"L\u2019Arche Avalon Planning New Inclusive Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/michael-genest.png\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"L'Arche Avalon Planning New Inclusive Homes\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Genest works with L&#8217;Arche Avalon (VOCM).<\/p>\n<p>A St. John\u2019s organization is working to build a new space for people with intellectual disabilities on the Avalon Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>L\u2019Arche Avalon is currently raising funds to construct two homes that will focus on community integration between workers and people with intellectual disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Michel Genest says they\u2019re collecting donations and hope to break ground on the project by late 2027.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really exciting because that means that people will not be put into a place where services are given to them but they\u2019re not really integrated with the community at large. So it\u2019s a positive.\u201d he told VOCM News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Michael Genest works with L&#8217;Arche Avalon (VOCM). A St. John\u2019s organization is working to build a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-721224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}