The Affordable Care Act (ACA) made significant progress in expanding access to health care for individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD). Access to consistent and reliable healthcare is critical for individuals with IDD, and the ACA created much-needed reforms to health insurance, addressed systemic discrimination, and expanded coverage. Yet it will all be at […]
Washington, DC - The Arc released the following statement in response to President Trump’s signing of an Executive Order on family separations.
The Executive Order directs the Department of Homelan...
Washington, DC - The Arc released the following statement in response to the forced immigrant family separations that are occurring at the U.S.-Mexico border and news of children with intellectual and...
Washington, DC - The Arc of the United States released the Family & Individual Needs for Disability Supports (FINDS) Community Report 2017today. The intent of this one-of-a-kind survey, conducte...
By: Nicole Jorwic, Chris’ Sister, Director of Rights Policy, The Arc of the United States
My home state of Illinois still has seven state-run institutions for people with intellectual and developme...
By Amberley Romo
It’s now been almost five years since I first wrote about future planning. I was 22, and living in Washington, DC — 1,300 miles away from my family in Dallas.
At the time, ...
