Helping adults with IDD build healthy relationships with confidence.
Relationship skills like friendships, communications, boundaries, dating, and online safety don't come naturally to everyone. Find Love Safely helps adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) build the confidence, skills, and support systems for healthier relationships throughout life.
Trusted by families. Featured nationally.
Relationships are important. Support should be too.
Most people learn relationship skills gradually through experience. Many adults with IDD have had fewer opportunities to practice communication, navigate friendships, explore dating, or learn how to recognize unhealthy situations.
Families often worry about loneliness, scams, manipulation, exploitation, and social isolation. Too often, people are left choosing between independence and protection.
We believe adults deserve both.
A different approach to relationships.
We challenge the false choice between autonomy and safety. Rather than focusing only on dating, we help adults with IDD build the knowledge, confidence, and skills to navigate relationships more successfully.
Because healthy relationships begin long before a first date.
What families and members are saying
I am just thankful for Find Love Safely. I never thought I would find guys to date. I would go for years thinking, 'Why can't I have a boyfriend?' It was just a lack of opportunity.
When our daughter joined Find Love Safely, we hoped it would help expand her social connections. We got way more — including a real-life platform to practice conversation skills, social norms, and communication reciprocity.
Open, advocating, good listeners and kind in their dealings, Find Love Safely has really opened up social opportunities and confidence building through inclusive life experiences and, yes, a little romance besides.
My experiences with speed dating and enjoying the community of it is one of the best things that has happened to me and I will always be grateful to you for creating such a remarkable organization!
Recognized for innovation and impact
Build relationship skills in a supportive community.
Live Virtual Workshops help adults with IDD build practical relationship skills through discussion, coaching, examples, role play, and guided practice.
- Start conversations
- Build friendships
- Navigate dating
- Set healthy boundaries
- Recognize red flags
- Handle rejection
- Improve communication
- Stay safer online
2nd and 4th Wednesday of every month. Available nationwide.
Relationship guidance you can access any time.
Compass app is your self-guided relationship support platform: relationship guidance, interactive coaching, recorded Virtual Workshops, communication support, dating safety, and ScamCheck™ integration, all in one place.
Not sure if someone online is real?
Online relationships can create exciting opportunities. They can also create risk. ScamCheck helps identify potential scams, suspicious messages, manipulation tactics, and other online red flags. Best of all, it's free.
Real progress, in her own words.
Building confidence, one step at a time
Allise joined Find Love Safely because she wanted to meet new people and explore whether she was looking for friendship, dating, or both. Through matchmaking and events, she has gone on several dates, formed a new friendship, and gained valuable experience understanding different types of relationships and what she wants for herself.
Guided matchmaking when you're ready.
Unlike dating apps, our matchmaking focuses on compatibility, communication styles, relationship goals, and support needs. We take our time and only introduce two people when they seem truly compatible. We never guarantee matches.
Healthy relationships begin with skills, confidence, and support.
Whether you're looking to build friendships, improve communication, explore dating, or simply feel more confident in relationships, we're here to help.
IDD stands for intellectual and developmental disabilities. It is an umbrella term that includes a wide range of disabilities that may affect learning, communication, decision-making, daily living, or other areas of development. Examples may include Down syndrome, autism spectrum disorder, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, cerebral palsy, and certain traumatic brain injuries, among many others.