Our mission is to empower people with developmental disabilities through service and advocacy. Imagine is a non-profit 501C3 organization providing Supported Living Services to adults with developmental living in Santa Cruz County. We also have a Resource Lending Library full of assistive products, communication devices and informational materials to share with the greater community! Imagine is hosting our second annual Short Film Festival on September 28th! Please see the link above for more information!

Want to learn more about Imagine? Check out the films we made about our services at our video page.

Summer is around the corner although it feels like it’s here already.  Have you made any plans for this summer?  Have you planned a vacation, or perhaps your directorial debut?  In case you haven’t heard we are hosting our 2nd annual short film festival on September 28th at the Museum of Art and History in Downtown Santa Cruz.

We are now accepting short films to consider for this festival thru July 15th. We will consider all films that are by, about, with or connected to individuals with developmental disabilities living in our community.

The purpose of this short film festival is to EMPOWER – INSPIRE – ENGAGE – but last and not least to CELEBRATE our amazing community of individuals with developmental disabilities, their families, friends, coworkers, support staff and allies!

If you have questions about the how to submit please check out our page at

http://imaginesls.org/imagine-2013-short-film-festival/

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Human Race – Walkathon & Fun Run

March 1, 2013

      A huge thanks to everyone who joined us and supported us in the Human Race! We will have our totals up as soon as we get them, but right now it appears we reached or even exceeded our goal!!  

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Valentine’s Day Strawberry Jam Fundraiser

January 29, 2013

  Celebrate Valentine’s Day with Homemade Strawberry Jam!  Imagine consumers and staff came together to make some delicious strawberry jam and now we’re making it available to you for a suggested donation of $5.00. What better way to show someone you care this Valentine’s Day than with homemade strawberry jam made with love from Imagine? [...]

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Thank you for your support!

January 7, 2013

A huge thank you to our friends and supporters who dug deep this holiday season and helped Imagine raise $8,300 and to increase the visibility of our four short films. We almost doubled the number of views to our films, they have now been seen 445 times! We would especially like to thank: Liz Camarie [...]

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SUPPORT IMAGINE THIS HOLIDAY SEASON!

October 15, 2012

Happy Holidays Friends of Imagine! It’s time to launch our 2012 holiday campaign based on two principals: Raise money to bridge the gap for this  year between what it cost to provide our services and what we are paid by the state – AND – raise the visibility of Imagine to build our list of [...]

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