For the second straight year, the ladies of the Ivy Circle Garden Club in Ocala donated their time and efforts to improve the landscaping around the ARC Marion campus.  Specifically, they spruced up the area surrounding Group Home 12 where several of our adult developmentally disabled clients live.  This is exactly the type of community involvement [...]

*This week’s blog was written by guest blogger, Beth Lewis, Director of  Community Supports of ARC Marion.
When we tell stories of people with developmental disabilities, they usually end up being something about money. That’s really unfortunate when the subject of money also has something to do with someone’s life. Stories about funding in the human [...]

A Knocking Success
On a quarterly basis, the boards of directors for ARC Marion and the Heart of Florida Hope Foundation receive success story reports for clients at ARC.  Each time I read them, I’m amazed.  I’m not surprised by how wonderfully the staff adapts and adjusts to each individual client’s needs, because the people who [...]

I am so proud of the individuals at ARC Marion who come here to fulfill the mission: to live, work and play to their fullest of their abilities.   Each day 166 developmentally disabled clients attend the Adult Day Training workshop and are given the opportunity to choose how they want to spend their day.  They [...]

I love to “think out of the box” and not do things the same way they always have been.  For years nonprofits have stayed in their zones or “boxes” tending to focus on their own demographics and needs 95% of the time.  I feel that today the lines of separation between nonprofits in most communities are a [...]