LPlace - Chief Executive Officer

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About 3LPlace

3LPlace empowers neurodiverse adults to reach their individual potential, follow their passions, and live meaningful lives.

Our mission is to support adults with developmental disabilities to lead meaningful lives in the community; to sustain adults over their lifespan, beginning with their transition from high school to middle age and beyond; to develop best practices, models, and content that are supported by evidence‑based research; and to share what we develop and discover with the broader community for replication.

We have built a deeply connected, warm, diverse community that embraces neurological differences and encourages self‑determination, where everyone feels safe, engaged, and ready to do their best.

Our members include people living with autism, Down syndrome, and various other challenges. Diagnosis isn’t important; what our members have in common is their readiness to grow their abilities and choose a path to a meaningful, gratifying, healthy, and connected life.

3LPlace came about through the efforts of a group of parents seeking more options for their own maturing children. These parents knew first‑hand that for too many young adults with developmental disabilities, reaching the agent of 22 means losing the support and services that make continued growth possible. 3LPlace is currently the only self‑directed community‑based program in Massachusetts that is available through the Department of Developmental Services self‑direction service option.

Our overarching goal at 3LPlace is to help our members be their best selves, every day. Through lifelong learning, our members work toward being:

• Connected to friends, family, and community
• Citizens participating in a social world
• Empowered, able to advocate for themselves
• Contributors through work and volunteering
• Regulated, able to do what they want to do
• Creators of their own dreams and goals

About the 3LPlace Program Model

We offer a highly personalized modular programming structure, with self‑determination at the heart of our program. Our members decide what they want to explore based on their own interests, goals, timing, and budget. We begin by putting the individual at the center of the process, focusing on what is most meaningful to him or her, including environment, aspirations, friends, and families.

We identify each individual’s strengths and challenges and support them to learn, develop skills, participate in activities, and achieve realistic, meaningful goals. We focus on each individual’s interests and passions in life. We believe that an individual’s personal interests can be harnessed to accelerate self‑determination, independence skills, friendships, and social behavior.

Equally important is the need for all people to belong to a community that values them and accepts and celebrates their contributions. 3LPlace’s work occurs in community – the individual’s immediate community of teachers, friends, and families – as well as the larger community that includes employers, shopkeepers, people on the street, bus drivers, and more. The Greater Boston area is our most important classroom, and we spend much of our time learning in that context.

Our menu of day, evening, and weekend programming is based on our unique 3LPlace Curriculum, a comprehensive and ground‑breaking blueprint for change. Our curriculum was developed by a collaborative team guided by experts from Tufts, Lesley, and Harvard universities as well as educators, clinicians and agency staff, and people living with disabilities.

Learn more about 3LPlace lace.org.

We are seeking an experienced leader to serve as 3LPlace’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), driving daily operations while guiding the next phase of sustainability and impact. Reporting to the Board of Directors and working closely with the Founder, the CEO will set and execute our strategic direction,…