Mitchell’s Mountain helps families with relief, care, and housing for their adult children with aggressive behavior due to their disabilities by providing a living community that connects its residents with exercise and movement, outdoor activity, and animal therapy to improve their children’s quality of life and elevate their dignity and self-worth.  

Mitchell’s Mountain wants to care for these adult children with a properly outfitted and staffed living space.  Parents shouldn't have to worry about being physically attacked, the destruction of their home or property, or be scared about what happens to their adult children when they can no longer be cared for.

Our Why

In 2014 our Founder and CEO’s son, Mitchell, was diagnosed with Autism (ASD).  Like many with ASD, Mitchell had physically aggressive and self-injurious behaviors. It became evident that Mitchell would need life-long living assistance.  Like many parents with a disabled child, the first thing Greg thought was “Who will care for Mitchell when I die and when I’m too old to care for him myself?” 

The more research Greg did the more he found that the options for adults with aggressive behaviors due to disability were rare. 

The Looming Problem

When children with ASD become adults, their aggression doesn't stop.  They are stronger and bigger and can inflict more damage with their rage.  Their parents are often less resistant to injury now because of advancing age.  The result is that many of these adult children with ASD seriously injure and even kill their parents during physically aggressive episodes.   Adult children with ASD will then live out the remaining years of their lives sedated in hospital beds to avoid these episodes, in the streets homeless, or locked up in jail or prison.

Physically aggressive people are usually rejected from housing when they are older. Mitchell’s Mountain seeks to serve these people and their families.  Greg’s desire is for a living community that makes the quality of life for these special individuals as great as possible. And this is where we need your help.