CARF International has given The Arc of Greater Boone County another accreditation for a period of three years for its services.  This is the sixth consecutive Three-Year Accreditation that the international accrediting body, CARF, has given to The Arc GBC. This accreditation decision represents the highest level of accreditation that can be given to an…

As we grow and expand our services we have to hire additional staff to meet the need. The Arc of Greater Boone County works hard to ensure that we do not have unnecessary waitlists for services. Most of our programs at The Arc do not have a waitlist at all. We currently have four job positions open.…

2017 A new year is finally here! We want to thank all of our supporters for your support this past year. With your help we were able to improve many things in 2016: We hired additional participants in the Mainstreet Enterprises workshop PCS increased its average daily attendance 85% of students with disabilities existing the school…

Thursday, the 17th before Thanksgiving we held our annual awards banquet at the Boone County 4-H fairgrounds. This event gave us the opportunity to honor our participants and the achievements they have made throughout the year. We were also able to recognize many other community partners: McDonald’s, Employer of the Year Sugar Creek Art Center, Community Partner Vocational Rehab, Community…

Our annual report will be mailed out and posted online by the end of November. We look forward to sharing this last year at The Arc GBC with you.

We held our annual art show in Thorntown again this year. Our artisans worked hard to complete original pieces to showcase and sell at this event. Bella Helibrum, our art teacher, organized the collections to showcase and made sure our event ran without a hitch. Art items for sale from our Artisans include: hand-dyed scarves…