​Everyone has a purpose.
A desire to do and be more.
To contribute, connect and be valued.
At Park Lawn, we help people with disabilities discover their passion and take pride in their accomplishments.
By providing them with a space to be themselves. A home to call their own.
A place to connect and forge long-lasting friendships.
Since 1955, our mission has been to provide comprehensive  services that encourage our participants 
and residents to lead fuller, more independent lives.
We don’t build walls. We tear them down.
Opening doors to new possibilities.
Every day, we inspire our participants to be more than observers. They are contributors who are accepted, respected and engaged. With ideas that have an impact.
Opportunities to advance personal skills and pursue new interests.
And choices that allow every person to thrive.

We believe people with intellectual and developmental disabilities earnestly wish to live a normal life. They want to go to school; they want a job that truly needs to be done and for which they earn a paycheck; they want a full and active social life. 

It is the vision of Park Lawn to provide the broadest range of quality program services and facilities possible to meet the changing long-term needs of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. As a private, non-for-profit community based agency, every attempt shall be made to elicit the support of similar providers, and all appropriate community public and private resources required to achieve the vision on both a progressive and cost effective basis.

In accordance with professional ethics, discussions with or regarding participants and parents are to be held in private and in confidence. Regard for the diagnosis or treatment made by professional colleagues or consultants must be held in confidence. All people with intellectual and developmental disabilities have rights as described in the Illinois Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code.