We're going to make sure every family like his does too.
A non-profit day program where children and adults with severe disabilities are welcomed, loved, and cared for — helping families keep them home for life.
A Place with Friends
At Nico's Place, children and adults with severe disabilities aren't just supervised. They're engaged. They play. They laugh. They have friends. They have days worth being awake for.
This is what we're building — a real place, a real community — for Nico and every family like his.
He lights up a room. He deserves a life surrounded by people who love him.
Why We Exist
Here is the reality families raising children and adults with severe disabilities live with every day.
Under federal law, eligible students receive special education through age 21 — age 22 in some states. The school day ends at 3 p.m. It doesn't cover summers, holidays, or sick days. Traditional after-school programs will not accept a child who needs total care.
For working parents, this is a daily logistical impossibility: be at work, and be the only person qualified to care for your child every hour the school isn't open.
When a young adult with severe disabilities ages out of public education, families fall off what advocates openly call "the disability cliff." One day there is structure. The next day there is nothing.
700,000+ adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities are on waitlists for services in the U.S. Many wait years.
The parents caring for adults with severe disabilities are themselves getting older. The lifting becomes harder. The sleepless nights take a heavier toll.
And every one of them carries the same private terror: What happens to my child when I'm gone?
What We Do
A community-based day program where children and adults with severe disabilities are truly welcomed, truly cared for, and treated as the full human beings they are.
Before-school, after-school, summer, holidays, and sick days — the hours that break working families.
Continuous care when public education ends at 21 or 22, so aging out doesn't mean losing everything.
No parent should have to surrender custody of their child to access care. Period.
Joy, dignity, connection, and choice — every day, for every individual we serve.
Parents who are supported can keep their children home. Parents who are abandoned cannot.
Nico has a place. We're building one for every family like his.
Where We Are Now
Nico's Place is being built with intention. We are completing the research, planning, and location work needed to open a loving, comprehensive enrichment facility for Nico and for children and adults with similar disabilities.
With support from LoveYourNextJob.com, we are laying the foundation for a center that will change lives — providing the safety, joy, and support that every precious child of God deserves.
Our Promise
Nico's Place is fully funded by state programs, charitable donations, and partners like LoveYourNextJob.com, with EmpowerMeHealth.Online launching soon. No family will ever have to choose between caring for their child and earning a living.
God put this on my heart. He put it on the heart of someone I love, too. We dreamed Nico's Place together — and for this season, I am the one carrying it publicly forward.
Two years ago, he brought a young man with severe disabilities into my life. I had no real experience with severe disabilities. None.
But I learned.
I learned what it looks like to love someone who depends on others for everything. I learned what families like ours navigate every single day — the impossible math of working full-time while caring for a loved one who needs total support. I saw the caregiver fatigue that builds quietly, over years, in parents who never get a real day off. I saw what the system actually looks like when the school day ends at 3, when public education ends at 22, when there is nothing waiting on the other side.
I saw families forced to choose between making a living and being there. I saw aging parents terrified of what happens when they can't lift their adult child anymore. I saw what it looks like when there's no third option.
And I learned something else: the most overlooked among us carry a kind of pure, unfiltered, untarnished, childlike love that most of us have forgotten exists. They light up a room. They are present in a way the rest of the world has lost the ability to be. They are precious children of God — and the world has not yet built a place that honors them as such.
So we are building one. Or rather — God is. We are just the vessels He chose.
He is making the path for an amazing young man who is so deeply loved by his family, by me, and by so many. And He is making this place for every precious child of God who needs it, and for every family carrying a weight that should not be carried alone.
Nico's Place is the place I wish had existed the day I first walked into this world. It's where children and adults with severe disabilities will be welcomed, loved, and cared for with the dignity they are owed. They deserve days worth being awake for. Their families deserve to keep them home for life.
That's the promise. That's what God is building through us.
— Tamara
Founded on faith principles. Open to every family.
Whether you're a family who needs us, a professional who wants to help, or someone moved by Nico's story — we'd love to hear from you.