The Arc New London County
The Eastern Connecticut
125 Sachem Street
Norwich, CT 06360
www.thearcect.org
Kathleen Stauffer
Chief Executive Officer
P: 860.889.4435
KStauffer@thearcect.org
The Arc Quinebaug Valley and The Arc New London County merged in July 2019 to form The Arc Eastern Connecticut. Both agencies were established in 1952 by parents of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities in order to ensure equal participation and choice in school, in the workplace, and in their communities. Combining program and staff strengths, The Arc Eastern Connecticut now provides advocacy and supports to over 800 people with IDD and their families across the entire eastern CT region and is the largest chapter of The Arc in the state. Our dedicated Board of Directors and our caring and professional staff have provided us with the ability to build programming and employee training modules in ways that greatly reinforce the mission and vision of our founding families who established both The Arc NLC and The Arc QV over six decades ago.
Services
Our services touch every aspect of a person's life including:
Residential services and supports, including 22 supported residences and a Community Companion Homes program
Group and Individual Supported Employment
Job Development, assessments, career planning
Transitional Employment Services
School-to-Work Transition services
Individualized day programs
In-Home Supports
22 supported residences
Micro-enterprise ventures throughout the region (cookie production, lawn/landscape services, mobile cleaning crews, redemption center, thrift store, farm stand/CSA/aquaponics
Retirement services
Community Life & Advocacy programs (health/fitness, social/cultural programs, self-advocacy, civic participation, personal enrichment)
Door-to-door transportation
Towns Served
Abington
Baltic
Bozrah
Brooklyn
Canterbury
Chaplin
Colchester
East Lyme
Eastford
Franklin
Gales Ferry
Griswold
Groton
Hampton
Hanover
Jewett City
Killingly
Lebanon
Ledyard
Lisbon
Lords Point
Lyme
Mohegan
Montville
Morningside Park
Mystic
New London
Niantic
Noank
North Lyme
North Stonington
Norwich
Norwichtown
Oakdale
Occum
Old Lyme
Pawcatuck
Plainfield
Pomfret
Preston
Putnam
Salem
Sprague
Sterling
Stonington
Taftville
Thompson
Uncasville
Union
Versailles
Voluntown
Waterford
Willimantic
Woodstock
Yantic