A disability rights organisation

Adults in Motion runs day programs in four Ontario cities and online. The work is grounded in both support and rights: care is delivered in a way that protects autonomy, choice and self-determination, so that adults with developmental disabilities have somewhere to go, something to do, and a say in what that is.

Nothing about us without us

Programs are built with participants, not for them: people decide what their own days hold. As co-founder Shelley Murphy puts it: “Disability representation and advocacy is echoed in our dedication to the ‘nothing about us without us’ movement.”

How self-advocacy works in Ontario 

A day program that also runs online classes.

2020Lubdub Media runs accessible virtual programming for people with disabilities, reaching those that travel, schedules or in-person capacity would otherwise leave out.
16years running

A return to the work, not a discovery.

Rodd and Shelley Murphy founded Adults in Motion in 2009. They’d already spent years running specialised homes for high-risk teenagers, so they came to this work knowing it, not finding it.

Meet Shelley Murphy 

The best way to understand it is to spend a day in one.

Come see a program near you, meet the community, and decide for yourself.

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