Located in Franklin, Tennessee, BrightStone is a non-profit, 501(c)3, work and life-long learning program for adults who live each day with developmental disabilities.

BrightStone's mission is to provide a comprehensive work, social support, and future residential community for adults with special needs, expanding their potential and helping them to develop mentally, physically, socially, emotionally, and spiritually. We focus on their abilities, talents, and skills. We are able to do this because we have an amazing faculty of caring, experienced, and dedicated individuals who are passionate about providing the best services to these very capable adults. We seek to meet the needs of every individual, created in God’s image, who deserve the opportunity to work and live in a safe and fulfilling place.

More than just a place to work, BrightStone is life empowering, life changing, and life saving, and we are blessed to serve families in middle Tennessee.

...where lives are changed, hope is renewed, safe care is assured, and love abounds!

We moved to our beautiful 140-acre Land of Dreams campus in November, 2022! Our new campus in unlike anything in Tennessee for adults with intellectual and development challenges.

The 23,000 sf Center for Learning, Art, and Enterprise is providing exceptional programming, and will be able to serve more adults. The completion of Phase 1 of our new campus will also include two teaching homes. Future phases include a chapel, gymnasium, horticulture program, and more. BrightStone's Land of Dreams campus truly is a dream come true for our adult citizens and prospective families to our BrightStone program