By: Scott Forlenza, FLTI Site Coordinator, The Arc Arapahoe Douglas Counties My name is Scott Forlenza, and I am a Family Leader. I worked hard to earn the title of “Family Leader” by graduating from Colorado’s first class of the Family...
More infoWritten by: Jonah Berger On Saturday, July 18th, our own Two-Way Street Project ventured out into the community once again to lend a helping hand and learn along the way. Our partner agency this month was The Life Care Center of Littleton, a...
More infoWritten by: Allie Broas, Program Assistant at Colorado Consumer Health Initiative When it comes to health insurance, there is no time like the present to sign up. That’s why we’ve teamed up with The Arc Arapahoe &...
More infoBy Kelie Kyser, Communications Coordinator, The Arc Arapahoe & Douglas Counties Once a month staff from The Arc Arapahoe & Douglas Counties attends the Advocates’ Communication Meeting hosted by the Colorado Department of Health Care...
More infoAs Coloradans, we are lucky on many levels. One of the best of which is that we have the nations premiere concert venue in our back yard. We have all enjoyed shows and movies at Red Rocks but it turns out that there is a non-profit called...
More infoTravel Training – How to Decide if It’s the Way to Go By Barb Borg, MA, OTR and Susan Unger, MA For someone with an intellectual disability, learning how to use public transportation can be daunting. By participating in a travel training...
More infoby Jonah Berger On May 23rd, the gang from The Two-Way Street Project ventured out again to discover new experiences and to help our community. This round, we found ourselves at The Happy Dog Ranch in Highlands Ranch. This beautiful ranch...
More infoby Jonah Berger On Saturday, April 18th, The Two-Way Street Project continued our amazing journey and ventured out to the S.A.M.E. Café in Denver. This is an amazing restaurant that functions on the concept that all people deserve to eat healthy...
More infoAs a parent of a child with special needs I had to modify my family’s life. I had to adapt in my skills as a parent and I had to learn to communicate with an endless amount of providers. I never thought of myself as anything more than his...
More infoby Jonah Berger It’s one thing to talk about self-advocacy, it really is quite another to practice it. To put yourself into the middle of it. To own it. And that is exactly what happened this week when our own Two-Way Street Project...
More infoEvery year we celebrate March as national Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month and this year The Arc Arapahoe & Douglas Counties is calling on all of our members to join us in Revealing the Faces of Intellectual and Developmental...
More info“Children with disabilities- such as physical, developmental, intellectual, emotional, and sensory disabilities – are at an increased risk of being bullied. Any number of factors – physical vulnerability, social skill challenges, or intolerant...
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