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Build Your Village Before You Need It

  • The Arc of Northern Virginia 3060 Williams Drive Fairfax, Virginia, 22031 United States (map)

Guest Speaker: Doreen G. Fulton, Founder, Believe in a Ray of Hope, LLC

Presented for The Family Village: Transition Parents Support Group, The Arc of Northern Virginia

Your village is not a list of phone numbers. It’s five specific kinds of people who show up in five specific ways — your Knower, your Witness, your Doer, your Dreamer, your Restorer.

Doreen built her own village the hard way — after a Tuesday morning phone call, when Robert was twenty-one, and the wait for support could be years. That was the day she stopped waiting for the system to save her family, and started building the village that would.

This talk is for parents and families navigating transition and beyond — walking through exactly what a real support village looks like, how to find it before a crisis forces the question, and the one document every family needs and almost none of us have.