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Planned Village Vision
Just Like Us is building a vision for inclusive community where adults with special needs can live with dignity, work with purpose, and belong, alongside essential workers and neighbors who strengthen the community around them.
Eagle County, Colorado In development
A stable, welcoming place designed around dignity, privacy, choice and community.
Opportunities to work, learn, contribute, build skills and pursue individual goals.
Relationships, responsibility and everyday participation in a community where each person is valued.
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A Different Kind of Community
Home is more than a place to live. It is where we are known, where we contribute, where friendships grow, and where we discover that we matter. Just Like Us was created around a simple belief: adults with special needs deserve the same opportunity to build a meaningful life within a real community.
The planned Just Like Us Village brings housing, meaningful work, lifelong opportunity, recreation and community connection together in one integrated vision. Not to separate people from the surrounding community, but to create a strong home base from which they can participate in it.
The exact site, acreage, unit count, resident mix, phasing and final design remain subject to site control, financing, public approvals and program needs. What will not change is the purpose: to create a place rooted in dignity, opportunity and genuine belonging.
Independence is not achieved through isolation.
Independence grows within a community that provides encouragement, opportunity, responsibility, and meaningful relationships.
Just Like Us creates communities where adults with special needs live with dignity, work with purpose, and belong through supportive housing, meaningful employment, and lifelong opportunities.
Our story and valuesThe Heart of the Village
At the center of the current concept is the Village Commons: a gathering place envisioned around a genuine public-facing cafe, where residents may have employment opportunities and the wider community is welcome.
Meaningful Work
A meaningful life includes the opportunity to contribute.
JLU intends to create and coordinate employment, vocational development, education, entrepreneurship, training and skill-building opportunities that reflect individual interests and abilities. Residents may work with JLU, community businesses, partner organizations or unrelated employers.
Employment with JLU will never be a condition of residence.
Who We Serve
Adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities are at the heart of JLU's charitable mission.
The Village is also envisioned to include qualifying essential workers as neighbors, helping create the kind of naturally integrated community where people with different backgrounds, abilities and roles live alongside one another.
Where We Are Today
Just Like Us is a Colorado nonprofit corporation with founding governance in place. On September 28, 2026, JLU submitted Form 1023 to the Internal Revenue Service requesting recognition of exemption under Section 501(c)(3) and classification as a publicly supported charity. The application is pending IRS determination. The Village, partnerships and charitable programs are in development.
Whether you want to support the mission, explore a partnership, or follow the journey, there is a place for you in what comes next.
Help JLU advance planning, partnerships and charitable programs as it moves from vision to implementation.
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