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About Brian’s House

OUR MISSION & VISION

Dedicated to empowering individuals


Brian’s House supports individuals with disabilities to achieve their highest potential and independence through innovative and individualized approaches that promote learning and personal fulfillment.

Brian’s House has a rich community of helping people with developmental and intellectual disabilities live meaningful and fulfilling lives in the communities of their choosing.

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Meaningful and Fulfilling Lives

We provide homes and work opportunities and foster friendships, learning, and pursuit of interests.

Individualized Programs

We take extraordinary pride in helping each person we serve through a program that is individualized and as unique as they are. 

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Committed to Advocating

Every staff member is compassionate, ethical, and committed to the highest quality standards.

OUR HISTORY

Our Journey


From our beginnings to the impact we make today.

In 1976, Dave Tuttle founded Brian’s House to provide essential services for people with disabilities, including his son Brian. He contracted with the Chester County Office of Mental Health & Intellectual Disability to operate clustered apartments and community homes to meet the residential needs of several children and adults with disabilities. 

Two years later, Dave Tuttle opened Brian’s House, a renovated histooric home in west Chester, Pennsylvania, that served as a residence for 14 children with profound developmental disabilities. Brian Tuttle was one of the first residents and lived there until he passed in 1989.

In 1996, Brian’s House affiliated with Woods, which enabled the organization to expand with the addition of more community homes and in 1998, the establishedment of Brain’s House Enterprises, a vocational program and meaningful day program for adultys with more profound disabilities. Brian’s House now provides residential support,  vocational opportunties, day programs, and community integration options for over 200 adults.

The residential program  now goes by the name Woods Community at Brian’s House as it expands its community-integrated residential services into other counties in the greater Philadelphia area.

Meet Our Team


Passionate people committed to making a difference.

Lori Plunkett

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

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Jim Kelly, MBA

DIRECTOR, VOCATIONAL SERVICES, BRIAN’S HOUSE ENTERPRISES

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Stephanie Farrow

RESIDENTIAL DIRECTOR  & DIRECTOR OF LIFESHARING

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Emily Kihara

DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES

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Rebecca Little, RN, CDDN

NURSE MANAGER

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Joe Dutton

RESIDENTIAL DIRECTOR

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Barry Kirsch

CONTROLLER

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Heather Hayes

NURSE PRACTITIONER

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AFFILIATES & PARTNERS

Our Partners in Change


Brian’s House is a proud member of Woods System of Care, a non-profit population health management organization that is transforming care for people with behavioral and emotional challenges as well as intellectual and developmental disabilities, autism, and medical and genetic complexities.

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Allies supports over 300 families in community homes in 16 counties in New Jersey. Allies and its affiliates provide meaningful residential, employment and recreational opportunities to people with disabilities in the communities of their choice.
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Archway Programs offers an array of programming for children and adults in southern New Jersey that include a before and after school program, two special education schools, early intervention services, youth, adolescent and adult partial care, and community homes with developmental disabilities.
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Bridgeway Behavioral Health Services facilitates, promotes, and fosters recovery from mental illness and co-occuring problems. We inspire and support individuals to become productive citizens who are fully engaged in their communities by creating opportunities for wellness, independent living, learning, working and social inclusion.
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Everyone deserves a meaningful and fulfilling life with not only their physical health needs met, but also their behavioral health needs. Because no two people are exactly alike, behavioral health services must meet each person’s specific, individual needs to be effective. 

Comprehensive behavioral health draws on a wide range of therapies, interventions, and support systems to provide thorough assessment, diagnosis, treatment, preventions, and follow-up care.

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Legacy Treatment Services, a 501c3 nonprofit, was created as a merger between The Drenk Center and the Children’s Home in addition to an affiliation with Community Treatment Solutions. Independently, each organization was an expert and preferred provider in the programs and services they delivered. Each agency was known for its innovation, responsiveness to they communities, they served and willingness to do whatever it takes. Together, the newly formed Legacy Treatment Services became a vibrant agency utilizing innovative technology and evidenced-based practice in treatment and clinical care.

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Primary care physician visits don’t have to be exhausting, exasperating experiences. High-quality, compassionate outpatient primary care for children and adults with developmental disabilities is available in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. 

At the Medical Center at Woods, we’re changing the face of healthcare for patients with disabilities. Our special needs doctors are committed to serving people with disabilities ages 6 and up – and doing it better than anyone else.

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Our mission is to transform global oral health and well-being through exceptional clinical care, innovation, education, and research. 

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Tabor Services has been meeting the needs of children and families at risk in Southeastern Pennsylvania for more than a century. In 2013, Tabor was selected as a Community Umbrella Agency (CUA) in Philadelphia.

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Woods Services, our parent company, empowers individuals with disabilities to achieve their highest potential and live a fulfilling life. Woods is a nonprofit multi-service population health management and advocacy organization founded 105 years ago. Woods provides innovative, comprehensive, and integrated health education, workforce, behavioral health, and care coordination services to 4,000 children and adults in the intellectual and developmental disability, child welfare, behavioral and brain trauma public health sectors through a network of five non-profit organizations.

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Woods Community Services supports children and adults with disabilities or challenges to achieve their highest potential and independence through innovative and individualized quality, accessible, timely and person-centered community based services that promote learning and personal fulfillment. 

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Rutgers Health: University Behavioral Health Care is dedicated to a mission of excellence that includes, the delivery of evidence based and compassionate behavioral health and addiction services to individuals and families across New Jersey, advancing the science through programmatic research, and educating the next generation of health care professionals.

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Our dedication to serving the people of New Jersey extends far beyond the care we provide within our hospital walls. We support programs that promote health and wellness in our communities and provide access to services that would otherwise be unanavailable. We are committed to the ongoing improvement of the health, quality of life and vitality of our communities. We strive to bring the best health care to meet the evolving needs of residents in New Jersey – whether that be enhancing the coordination for treating complex health conditions or improving community health through local programs and education.

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