Welcome to Puzzle Pieces!

Making a Difference in Lives One Piece at a Time.

Our Mission: To provide a safe environment for individuals with intellectual disabilities and promote independence, life skills, community involvement, social interaction, communication, and most importantly building trusting relationships between clients, staff, and families.

Our Vision:  Puzzle Pieces will be a structured active day program that will promote social interaction, vocational skills, sensory integration, independent living, life skills, and life-long learning opportunities.  The structured schedule will be individual-centered to meet the needs and wants of your child/adult.  The non-demanding atmosphere will use positive encouragement and reinforcement to engage them in the activities provided.  Activities would range from arts and crafts, structured task completion, vocational jobs, social interaction time, leisure time, and don't forget just having a good time being around others.  These activities will look very different for many individuals in order to tap into their wants/needs and ability levels.  Any activity can be altered to meet the needs of your child/adult.

Project Hope:  Puzzle Pieces is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization in the planning stages of raising funds to open a one-of-a-kind Activity Day Center Facility serving individuals with developmental disabilities in Owensboro, Kentucky. There are great programs in Owensboro; however these facilities are either a residential facility or a facility providing academic support for a very specific disability. All are needed, but we need more. Puzzle Pieces will bridge the gap for many families raising children and adults that have developmental disabilities which fall between the cracks. In order for Puzzle Pieces doors to open we need to raise $170,000. This money would go towards the operation costs and administration cost for the first full year of operation.  It is important we have our expenses covered the first year, so we can focus on the clients and their needs in order to make Puzzle Pieces successful for these individuals and their families.

Project Hope is targeting community business and passionate individuals to get the financial support we need to launch Puzzle Pieces. Through Project Hope we are hoping to raise $120,000 to go towards our overall budget. Project Hope's financial donors will be recognized for their passion, support, and generous donation on a permanent statue that will follow Puzzle Pieces throughout the years.

The Support Already! We have 22 families who have already pre-registered their child/adult to attend Puzzle Pieces as soon as the doors open. This number is a combination of school-aged individuals with full-time/part-time adults for the day sessions. Puzzle Pieces has held several fundraisers to kick-start the funds. On October 29th, for the 1st Annual Puzzle Walk we raised $7,400. We have several more fundraisers planned for the rest of this year into the beginning of next year. Puzzle Pieces plans on applying for grants in order to fund special projects for the clients at Puzzle Pieces. There isn't a grant which would fund a start-up cost to operate a non-profit for one year, and that is why we need our Owensboro Community to support Project Hope.

Puzzle Pieces' clients will be connecting with our community through a buddy program, volunteering at events, raising awareness about disabilities, and many other exciting adventures we have in store. That is why we want the Community to back Project Hope. You can give HOPE to these families and these individuals for a better quality of life, relief for parents to knowing where their child/adult can go during the day when they are at work, and much more. Owensboro needs Puzzle Pieces as much as Puzzle Pieces needs Owensboro right now!