How much do you know about democracy? Even after a civics class or two, many people aren’t sure how our country’s political system works or how to participate. ADEC wanted to help change that. Recently, Kelsey McClure from the [...]

https://youtu.be/WVHs8SoG7e8 It is easy to assume that ADEC is only visible in the community through our clients, facilities, staff, art and coffee, but we are far more prevalent than that and you probably didn’t even realize it.When you were waiting [...]

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https://youtu.be/APzFvM8LIus   A tremendous compliment also served as a tremendous problem last week for ADEC’s Gaining Grounds Coffee House. The monthly specials proved to be too tasty and popular. The staff ran out of the amaretto for the amaretto [...]

https://youtu.be/rArj6Kkkksk Much like pumpkin spiced items and Oktoberfest beers slowly popping your local grocery store lately, fall is starting to sneak into the picture. Tuesday, Art by ADEC curator Desirae Kemp bounced around the recently-expanded Bristol gallery replacing summery [...]

https://youtu.be/5Qs7hL06WfY RESERVE HERE | MORE INFO: CALL (574) 848-2446 Board meetings, training sessions, lectures and workshops have gotten a bit tougher in the corporate world. Suddenly your conference room isn’t quite big enough with social distancing guidelines and [...]

https://youtu.be/7jY4X8-A6zs  Gaining Grounds Conference Center | Art By ADEC | Gaining Grounds Coffee House | Silver Linings Trash BagsWorking for GoodEver wish your shopping could help buy a better world? A social enterprise is an organization that uses commercial business [...]

Thank You Video In late June we had the idea to picture the possibilities of how we could bring the local community and ADEC together in a virtual world with so many of our traditional in-person gathering options left [...]

The “C” in ADEC stands for “Community” and ADEC makes great efforts through its community outreach department to embrace its local community beyond just the IDD community. The Picture Possibilities fundraiser received a significant amount of support back from that [...]

When a child is born with an intellectual and developmental disability, the news can be jarring to a family. There are so many questions and where to even start to look for the answers? Months after the birth of their [...]