Gold Chicken Friends

About Us

Our Mission and Identity

Gold Chicken Friends celebrates the gifts and honors the dignity of every human being. Friends with developmental disabilities have contagious gifts of faith, trust and friendship, gifts that can build a more compassionate world. Gold Chicken friends are not clients, patients, or service recipients, rather they are friends, teachers, and companions.

Our Identity

Gold Chicken Friends is a welcoming community where people of all abilities come together for friendship, celebration, advocacy, mutual support, and to realize a sense of purpose and self-worth.

Our Mission

Our mission is to enhance life for individuals with any disability, we provide opportunities to build friendships, celebrate, share faith, find joy, find purpose, and thrive.

How We Live our Mission

You are invited

Our activities and events reflect our mission to enhance life for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We welcome friends of all abilities to join in friendship, celebration, and mutual support. We are a community where all are included. We aim to find joy, find purpose, and thrive.

To see current activities  go to our Events Page.

Our Board

Gold Chicken Friends, Inc. is an all volunteer organization. Our Board of Directors leads our organization and conducts business with utmost care and competence.
Meet our Board Directors.

Cheryl Emory
Board Chair

Lanette Hall
Vice Chair

Shelley Lantz
Board Director

Lee Price
Board Director

Hunter Armstrong
Board Director

Shavonne Jefferson
Board Director

Tom Smith
Tresurer
Not a Board Director
Growing our Board

We are looking for new Board Directors for Gold Chicken Friends. If you would like to recommend someone (maybe you), please email goldchickenfriends@gmail.com. 

Contact Us

Mailing Address
Gold Chicken Friends, Inc.
P.O. Box 35
Goochland, VA 23063