Camphill

Camphill offers Volunteer and Serve at Camphill, where participants spend a year developing themselves, building authentic relationships, and learning practical and creative skills in a thriving intentional community. It also includes Camphill Academy, which provides experiential higher education and university-level education in Inclusive Social Development, and The Camphill School & Transition Program.

Programs

• Volunteer and Serve at Camphill — Spend a year developing yourself, building authentic relationships, and learning practical and creative skills in a thriving intentional community.
• Camphill Academy — Experiential higher education, debt-free; university-level education in Inclusive Social Development.
• The Camphill School & Transition Program

About the provider

Camphill is a worldwide social initiative that creates communities for people with and without intellectual disabilities. Over the past eighty years, the international Camphill movement has grown to more than one hundred communities in twenty two countries. Camphill emphasizes mutual support in interdependent community life and values equality, freedom, fellowship, dignity, respect, and interest in one another. The Camphill Academy is a nationally accredited organization. Camphill communities are described as people with and without disabilities sharing daily lives and connecting through home, work, nature, food, art, and spirituality.

Camphill emphasizes mutual support in interdependent community life and values equality, freedom, fellowship, dignity, respect, and interest in one another.

What families say

“Being in Camphill is being with the most genuine and honest people I have ever come across” — Brittany Archer

Last updated September 15, 2026.