Achieve With Us
The Arc is not an acronym; always refer to us as The Arc, not The ARC and never ARC. The Arc should be considered a title.
Day Programs
The Arc provides a wide range of day program services to assist individuals in increasing independence in various aspects of their lives. Support can range from supervision needed to remain healthy and safe, to assistance in maintaining their own homes or obtaining and keeping a job. Along the way, we're always looking to develop new interests and talents as that's what makes life worth living. All efforts are directed towards helping people become contributing members of the community and realizing an every day life.
In-Home and Community Supports
In-Home and Community Supports is a direct service provided in home and community settings to assist participants in acquiring , maintaining and improving the skills necessary to live in the community, to live independently and to participate meaningfully in the community life. Services consist of assistance, support and guidance (physical assistance, instruction, prompting, modeling, and reinforcement) in the general areas of self-care, health maintenance, decision making, home management, managing personal resources, communication, mobility and transportation, relationship development and socialization, personal adjustment, participating in community functions and activities and use of community resources.
Companion
Companion services are direct services provided to participants age 18 and older who live in private homes for the limited purposes of providing supervision or assistance that is designed to ensure the participant's health, safety and welfare or to perform activities of daily living for the participant. This service is used in lieu of In-Home and Community Supports when a habilitative outcome is not appropriate or feasible (i.e. when the professional providing the service mainly does activities for the participant or supervises the participant versus assisting the participant to learn, enhance or maintain a skill). Companions may supervise, assist or even perform activities for a participant that include: grooming, household care, meal preparation and planning, ambulating, medication administration in accordance with regulatory guidance and socialization.
Supported Employment
Supported Employment services are direct and indirect services that are provided in a variety of community settings for the purposes of supporting participants in obtaining and sustaining competitive integrated employment. Competitive integrated employment refers to full or part-time work at minimum wage or higher, with wages and benefits similar to workers without disabilities performing the same work, the fully integrated with coworkers without disabilities. Supported Employment services include activities such as training and additional supports including worksite orientation, job aide development, coordination or accommodations and ensuring assistive technology that may be needed by the participants to obtain and sustain competitive integrated employment is utilized as specified in the plan.