Something exciting is returning to Manchester... 🌊🎶

Our MARC, Inc. Summer Concert Series is back with THREE free nights of music, community, and summer fun!
📅 Tuesday, July 14, 21, and 28
(Rain dates: Wednesday, July 15, 22, and 29)
⏰ 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
📍 151 Sheldon Road, Manchester, CT, 06042

Mark your calendars, bring your friends, and get ready to make some unforgettable summer memories. More details coming soon! ☀️🏝️👀

Check here for more info as the date approaches.

Something exciting is returning to Manchester... 🌊🎶

Our MARC, Inc. Summer Concert Series is back with THREE free nights of music, community, and summer fun!
📅 Tuesday, July 14, 21, and 28
(Rain dates: Wednesday, July 15, 22, and 29)
⏰ 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
📍 151 Sheldon Road, Manchester, CT, 06042

Mark your calendars, bring your friends, and get ready to make some unforgettable summer memories. More details coming soon! ☀️🏝️👀

Something exciting is returning to Manchester... 🌊🎶

Our MARC, Inc. Summer Concert Series is back with THREE free nights of music, community, and summer fun!
📅 Tuesday, July 14, 21, and 28
(Rain dates: Wednesday, July 15, 22, and 29)
⏰ 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
📍 151 Sheldon Road, Manchester, CT, 06042

Mark your calendars, bring your friends, and get ready to make some unforgettable summer memories. More details coming soon! ☀️🏝️👀

Check here for more info as the date approaches.

Join us for the game and cheer on our chapters as they participate on-field!

Join us on Saturday, June 13, 2026, for Community Day at Harkness Park!

This year’s event is all about celebrating the IDD community, the individuals, partnerships, and supports that make our communities stronger and more inclusive. The day will feature music, activities, opportunities to connect, and time to enjoy everything Camp Harkness has to offer, including the beach and other spaces.

From 11AM to 2PM, enjoy a day of connection, inclusion, and shared joy in one of Connecticut’s most beautiful parks. We hope you’ll be part of this meaningful gathering.

Register here >

Check here for more info as the date approaches.

IDD Awareness Day, observed on May 23 in Connecticut, is an opportunity to celebrate individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and to reaffirm our shared commitment to inclusion, dignity, and belonging.

On this day, we recognize that strong communities are built when everyone is valued and supported. IDD Awareness Day encourages greater understanding, amplifies voices, and promotes policies and practices that create pathways to independence, opportunity, and full participation for people of all abilities.

Check here for more info as the date approaches.

Join us for our April Family Network meeting (hybrid: virtual & in-person) on Thursday April 23, 2026 from 6:00pm - 7:30pm. 

ADVOCACY DAY AT THE CAPITOL

11th Annual Arc CT/IDD Caucus Family Hearing Day

Make your voice heard. Share your story. Join us to advocate for adequate funding for the IDD Community and the providers who care for them.

Check here for more info as the date approaches.

Join us for our March Family Network meeting (hybrid: virtual & in-person) on Thursday March 19, 2026 from 6:00pm - 7:30pm. 

March is Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month, a time to recognize the talents, contributions, and experiences of people with developmental disabilities. It’s an opportunity to promote understanding, celebrate inclusion, and reaffirm the importance of building communities where everyone is valued, supported, and given the chance to thrive.

Check here for more info as the date approaches.

Discussion will include supports for families transitioning from youth to adult services and advocacy updates from the start of the Connecticut General Assembly Session. (Dinner will be served.)

Supported Decision Making (SDM) is an alternative to guardianship and conservatorship, that provides people with disabilities and seniors the option to retain their right to make decisions for themselves, with the support of trusted friends and/or family members they choose.

We will be in-person in New Haven County (Meriden, Connecticut).  Dinner will be served. Please click below to RSVP.  

Those that RSVP to join us in person will receive an email with driving and parking information prior to the event. Those that RSVP to join us virtually will receive an email with the zoom link and joining instructions prior to the event. 

Everyone will receive information, resources, family homework and more. We look forward to seeing you! 

Come learn about the yellow envelope program, and how it can help individuals with disabilities during interactions with first responders!

Come join the Connecticut Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity and Opportunity, and the Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles, and a variety of partnering organizations, including the Council on Developmental Disabilities, as we introduce the Yellow Envelope Program, created to support individuals with cognitive and physical disabilities. This event will be held on Wednesday, January 14 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm, in hearing room 1A at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford, CT.

Together, we will discuss the Blue, Green, and Yellow Envelope Programs. We will learn about the communities they serve, and discuss how each program can assist individuals during interactions with first responders. We will hear directly from experts on each program, but also directly from the indivduals that these programs assist.

In addition to light refreshments, yellow envelopes, yellow envleope program bracelets, and window decals will be provided free of charge at the event.

Press conference hosted by State Representatives Lucy Dathan, Jillian Gilchrest, and Jay Case.

Thursday, May 22, 2025

Begins at 10:00 AM.

South Terrace CT State Capitol

This reception provides an opportunity to meet with families and colleagues and discuss the great work Arcs are doing across CT to support full lives and full inclusion for people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD). To register, please email cscully@thearcct.org

10th Annual Arc CT/IDD Caucus Family Hearing Day

LOB-Room 2C

Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUIJjiO6xXB3sHMWW9ncm8EVV-ZFWH3XJup4D4ZP2uRVuvsQ/viewform

For far too many years, people with I/DD and their families have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden for the state's budget woes. This has resulted in long waiting lists for services, program closures, abysmal employment rates for people with I/DD, inadequate rates to meet support needs, high staff turnover and a shortage of direct service professionals. 

IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY!

With a projected $290 million dollar budget surplus, this is the year lawmakers have a real opportunity to right the wrongs of the past eight years, and to make an investment in the supports people with I/DD need to live work and thrive in their communities.

LEGISLATORS NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU!

In the past, when families have shown up in large numbers we have been able to achieve amazing things in spite of huge budget deficits. We have protected funding for new graduates, we have passed legislation to allow providers to innovate and to serve more people and we have gotten funding for the waiting list.

In light of the huge budget surplus, this year we finally have the opportunity to ask legislators to properly fund the services and supports you need. But they will not do that unless they hear from you!

Don't pass up this opportunity to tell legislators what you, your family or a loved one with I/DD needs to live their best life in the community. RSVP today and stay tuned for more information in the coming days.