Warm Hearth is a nation-wide movement in Armenia that provides forever homes for people with special needs. You are part of our theory of change. All of our words and actions are for the ultimate purpose of putting radical acceptance and support on the hearts and minds of people in such a way that anything less is no longer acceptable. We are committed to providing homes to abandoned Armenians with special needs who have outgrown the orphanages. Warm Hearth is an organic project centered around our residents. Our vision is to provide our residents with peace and nurture and to engage in mutually transformative relationships with one another. Warm Hearth started as an idea. It was born out of love and a commitment to our first group of residents. As we look forward, our commitment to the residents remains the same today as it was when we began. We want to provide our residents with high quality and loving care in a forever home. They are the reason for Warm Hearth. Our focus and energy is on a sustainable model that can be replicated even further in Armenia so that more individuals like our residents can be served outside of institutional settings. The model we strive for utilizes Armenian government support, private, local and international donations, self-generated income projects and public funds. Individuals with special needs are oftentimes still institutionalized, and stigmatized as dangerous, inhuman, and shameful. But the solution we have created in Warm Hearth group home is working. It breaks into what is otherwise a closed system. Warm Hearth interrupts the negative interlocking cycles of attitude and injustice by providing an inlet for hope and change on the individual, institutional and national level.