{"id":51129,"date":"2025-11-13T11:48:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T11:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/51129\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T11:48:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T11:48:27","slug":"bean-ability-a-place-of-community-for-people-with-disabilities-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/51129\/","title":{"rendered":"Bean Ability: A place of community for people with disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Drexel Hill, Pa &#8212; Ten years ago, Anne Leopold started &#8216;Emmaus Home, a nonprofit supporting adults with disabilities. Her inspiration came from her son, Kevin, who has severe autism and intellectual disabilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;I wanted a place that would emulate the family&#8221;, she explains. The nonprofit has grown to 24 residents across four Pennsylvania counties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Their latest venture, Bean Ability Coffee caf, is a caf where people with and without disabilities work side by side. &#8220;I always wanted something in the community where people with and without disabilities could come together and get to know each other and form relationships,&#8221; says Anne, &#8220;because once high school ends, when you&#8217;re have disabilities, it&#8217;s very difficult to find those relationships in the community&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The caf is open six days a week and hosts live jazz on Saturdays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drexel Hill, Pa &#8212; Ten years ago, Anne Leopold started &#8216;Emmaus Home, a nonprofit supporting adults with disabilities.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[32621,30906,179,5609,32620,12475,112,114,113,32622],"class_list":{"0":"post-51129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-bean-ability","9":"tag-coffee-shop","10":"tag-community","11":"tag-disabilities","12":"tag-emmaus-house","13":"tag-evergreen","14":"tag-fresno","15":"tag-fresno-headlines","16":"tag-fresno-news","17":"tag-nerodivergent"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}