About us :

Brookwood is a God-centered educational, residential, and entrepreneurial community for adults with functional disabilities located in Brookshire, Texas, just west of Houston.

Our first resident enrolled in 1985. Today, more than one-hundred citizens live in homes on our 475-acre campus, work in one or more of several on-site enterprises, exercise and play in the indoor swimming pool and gymnasium, celebrate the presence of God in our inter-faith worship center, and when necessary receive care in our clinic.

We also serve citizens from the Houston metropolitan area who participate in our day program.

Brookwood is funded through tuition, private sector donations, and sales from our entrepreneurial enterprises. We do not accept government subsidy.

The cornerstone of our program is education, education in the activities of daily living, and in a very productive work program. Our enterprises entail work our citizens can perform or learn to perform by guidance and training of our skilled staff. The enterprises provide opportunities for our citizens to learn new skills, enhance their self-esteem, and showcase their contributions and...then...
Brookwood's enterprises include crafts (candles, ceramics, screen printing, garden sculpture and stonecast), horticulture, retail stores, and the Cafe at Brookwood, with food prepared by a gourmet chef.

By providing opportunities, Brookwood expands the horizons of its residents, giving lifelong education that enables them to:

Develop meaningful productive job skills
Hold real jobs in the community's own business enterprises
Experience the pride of contributing to their own support
Grow socially, emotionally, and spiritually, experiencing a richer, more fulfilling life.

Organizations from around the world with similar missions come to Brookwood to study our programs and collaborate to help adults with functional disabilities.

Brookwood is organized into three distinct areas.

1. The Village Center, is made up of a residential Inn, Continuing Care and Health Center, The Mabee-Cain Handcrafts Production Center, The Donald W. Reynolds Activities Center, and the Brookwood Worship Center.

2. The residential section, is composed of seven large group homes and two staff homes on a quiet, curved lane.

3. The last area is an enterprise zone of 39 commercial greenhouses, horticultural offices, a concrete manufactory, one of Brookwood's three retail centers and the Brookwood Cafe.

Booker T. Washington once said "I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed."

Brookwood demonstrates that with God's help, all people have a contribution to make to society if given the opportunity.