We are hiring Live-In Assistants to support our homes & share life with us in Southeast Portland and looking for folks with and without disabilities who want to become Gabriel House Members at our home in Beaverton!

Live-In Assistants
Live-in Assistants and the Community Leadership Team work together to create and support community life in our Eastside / Montavilla homes. A Live-In Assistant must feel called to share life in our homes and build intentional community.

General Responsibilities include: Assist core members (adults with intellectual disabilities) with basic hygiene and health needs, which include toileting, showering, and laundry assistance. Assist core members with daily recreational and financial activities and support them in personal growth. Share household responsibilities including cooking, maintenance of house and yard, upkeep of
community vehicles, transportation for core members, record keeping. Help plan celebrations, welcome guests, support community nights. Attend regular meetings. Develop supportive relationships with friends and families of core members, and professional human service workers (case workers, health care providers, etc.)

$17/hr + benefits (see website for more information)

To Apply:
Please fill out our Assistant application by visiting https://www.larche-portland.org/join-our-team.

Gabriel House Member
Gabriel House members live in our newest home in Beaverton, Oregon. In this home, adults with and without intellectual disabilities build community together, but do not have a paid caregiving relationship with each other. All are encouraged to pursue activities beyond the home, including employment, school, and community engagement. Those who need support with activities of daily living contract with support workers on an hourly basis.

To Apply:
You can learn more and request an application to Share Life in Our Homes by completing an online inquiry form here: https://www.larche-portland.org/live-with-us.

About L’Arche Portland

At L’Arche Portland, people with and without intellectual disabilities (ID) are transformed by working together to create home, share life, and build community. We give and receive compassionate care and friendship as a community that fosters a deeper experience of being human. We welcome people of all backgrounds and spiritual journeys to find connection and belonging.

People with disabilities experience disproportionately high rates of discrimination, poverty, poor mental and physical health outcomes, and marginalization. Our society does not recognize one of the most important needs of all – the need to belong. Belonging is a need felt by all people, but it is often neglected for people with intellectual disabilities. L’Arche Portland addresses this common need for belonging and the isolation and loneliness that people with intellectual disabilities face through our intentional model of fostering mutual relationships.

We have three homes and monthly gatherings that provide people with and without intellectual disabilities opportunities to discover and build relationships across differences. L’Arche Portland cultivates an extended community of friends, volunteers, and supporters in Oregon, as well as across the country and world. L’Arche Portland is part of an international movement of 149 communities and 20 projects in 35 countries around the world.

Our vision of disability is based on the simple, powerful idea that love, relationships, and belonging are essential to all people and that every person has the ability and responsibility to contribute. Marilyn, one of our community members with a disability, may have summed it up best when she described L’Arche Portland as “a place where they want you.” We are creating, day by day, a place of belonging, a place where people—with or without disabilities—feel welcomed, valued and loved.

At L’Arche Portland, people with and without intellectual disabilities are transformed by working together to create home, share life, and build community. We give and receive compassionate care and friendship as a community that fosters a deeper experience of being human. We welcome people of all backgrounds and spiritual journeys to find connection and belonging.