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Dear Arc Friend,
The Arc Portland Metro supports individuals experiencing intellectual and developmental disabilities. The services we provide include social programs, opportunities to gain work experience, and education. Our four primary programs are Community Living Supports, Club Impact, our newest program, Hello World and Club Mosaic. Through the generosity of your support, we will continue to provide these programs while expanding them to the entire metro area. Additionally, we have a partnership with the Transition classroom from Reynolds High School. Your support of these programs will ensure their continued impact on the lives of our participants.
Community Living Supports offers individuals an opportunity to participate in a program that provides in home and community learning supports uniquely designed from the goals and dreams of each person. Supports can include skill training, participation in community activities, and friendship and socialization opportunities all geared toward building independence and inclusion in a person’s neighborhood and community.
Club Impact, unique in our community, provides diverse adults (18+) experiencing I/DD with consistent safe opportunities to foster healthy thriving peer relationships and meaningful connections. Club Impact’s success is a result of years spent creating a caring, supportive community for this marginalized population. The program builds relationships among participants, providers, families, and volunteers, and supports participants in developing lives with meaning and social connections that increase support and decrease isolation. Fun activities include a get together with a big thank you (pictured) for the evening of fun! The Arc Portland Metro understands the high need and demand for Club Impact, and to this end, manages the program, providing a coordinator and raising funds through donations and grants.
Hello World is a new and innovative program designed to teach the fundamentals of filmmaking from script writing to story boarding to shooting and editing. It involves individuals of all skill levels who have a passion for storytelling and filmmaking. In a partnership with MetroEast Community Media and a consultant, individuals will learn to create and produce videos that they can share with the community.
Club Mosaic is a social program for participants who want to create art and get better at their craft. This program meets twice a month and offers specific classes on drawing and a crafting class of various artistic modes. Artists show their creations as (Pictured). Over the next year, the goal for Club Mosaic is to bring in artists who will facilitate classes expanding art opportunities to individuals in Multnomah, Washington, and Clackamas counties.
Our partnership with Reynolds High School Transition Program is another one of our successes. Collaborating with the Transition classroom from Reynolds School District’s Cornerstone Program is in its third year providing valuable work experience to students who travel to the Arc donation center each week to prepare items to go to our Thrift Store in the Montavilla neighborhood, while other students work at the Thrift Store getting the clothes onto the racks and shelves for sale.
This program offers students (18-21 years), the opportunity to try out different aspects of a job. This partnership with the Arc provides training and firsthand work experience for students experiencing intellectual and developmental disabilities. In an exciting addition to our used goods program, the students are also learning ways to use environmental resources to recycle donations responsibly. Students come to our Thrift Store once a week to learn retail skills, customer service, and filling shelves.
Your support of these programs is essential to their continued operation and impact. We have income from our Thrift Store and grants but your contributions allow us to grow and expand these programs, offering them to more participants and more often. Our Thrift Store, located at 8304 SE Stark St, partially funds the Arc’s programs so staff can provide services to individuals experiencing intellectual and developmental disabilities in the tri-county area.
We at the Arc, want to thank you for considering a year-end, tax-deductible donation to The Arc Portland Metro. Your gift of any size will help us continue engaging adults experiencing ID through programming that will develop self-advocacy, employment skills, interpersonal and relationship-building skills and increase community connections.
You can give to The Arc Portland Metro in multiple ways:
Thank you in advance for your support. Our Board of Directors, staff, program participants and volunteers wish you and yours a happy, healthy, and joyous holiday season!
Sincerely,
Christina Dillon
Board President
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503-223-7279
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