PROGRAM ADVOCACY SLICE
SELF-ADVOCACY SLICE
ADVOCACY FUNDING SLICE
LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY SLICE
AGENCY ADVOCACY SLICE
100
This program provides inclusive activities to an average of 40 students for 4 weeks every year
What is the Summer Day Program?
100
What anniversary will be celebrated at the 3-day People First Conference that is run by The Arc annually in September, and averages 275 attendees from around the state
What is 25th Anniversary?
100
$14,000 in funding is received annually from this organization for Summer Day Program operations and Brain-Injury Prevention to purchase helmets
What is Henry Logan Children's Foundation?
100
The Arc facilitates the attendance of over 100 people annually for this 2-day event that is held in January or February each year at the Capitol in Charleston.
What are Disability Advocacy Days?
100
To ensure a satisfying and productive life for children and adults with intellectual, cognitive, and related developmental disabilities by providing programs and services that enable, empower, and encourage them to live, learn, work, worship, and play in their community….along with their peers and neighbors!
What is the mission of The Arc?
200
This program of The Arc provided 70 loans of assistive devices and demonstrations to 249 individuals to help them be more independent
What is TechLink?
200
The number of People First chapters for which The Arc provides communication, facilitation, planning, and programming
What is 23?
200
$144,000 is provided to The Arc from this state agency to be the system point of entry for an eight-county region for the WV Birth To Three program
What is the WV Office of Maternal, Child, and Family Health (OMCFH)?
200
This is the theme of the past year's historic grassroots advocacy movement for WV's Title 19 Waiver recipients, that included a rally on the Capitol steps, media coverage, a petition with over 10,000 signatures, and now a lawsuit against the WV DHHR
What is "Don't Cut Our Lifeline"?
200
3377 represents the number of minutes viewed and 972 represents the number of people accessing this social media outlet in the past year
What is the People First of WV YouTube Channel?
300
This is the name of the book that was developed by The Arc more than 15 years ago,
and is used by staff to teach disability awareness and inclusion to 3rd graders in Wood County
What is Living Together?
300
The person who introduced Self-Advocacy to the State of West Virginia back in 1992 when employed by The Arc.
Who is Kevin Smith?
300
One grant totaling more than $79,000 was received from this state agency by The Arc last year, to implement People First of WV.
What is the WV Developmental Disabilities Council? (WVDDC)
300
The location of this annual 3-day event that brings together chapters of The Arc, United Cerebral Palsy, Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, and Administration on University Centers for Disability
Where is Washington, D.C.?
300
48,262
What is the number of miles traveled by staff to implement programs of The Arc of the Mid Ohio Valley last year?
400
"Individual Response Plans", "Steps to Report Abuse and Neglect", and "Recognizing Healthy Relationships" are all components of this program implemented by The Arc, that trained 675 people this past year
What is the SafeGuard project?
(People with I/DD - 140
Family Members - 255
General Public - 278
Policymakers - 2
)
400
Complete this key message that is used to motivate people with disabilities into action at the end of each training provided through People First.
"If you're not at the table......"
What is "you're on the menu"?
400
The Arc received approximately $2100 per month last year, as one of 36 agencies funded through this organization.
What is the United Way Alliance of the Mid Ohio Valley?
400
These are the names of the state policy and federal law that govern Special Education in West Virginia
What are WV Policy 2419 and IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2008)?
400
Name just one of the "Firsts" that The Arc has experienced this year
What is....?
1st donation of a building to The Arc
1st time request to train FBI agents on disability
1st donation of a vehicle to The Arc
1st time a tornado destroyed a thrift shop
1st collaborations with Wood Co. Senior Citizens for transporting
1st time a training was held in the "upper room" of Cabelas
1st time the Attorney General of WV quoted The Arc in news releases
1st time The Arc filed an Office of Civil Rights Complaint
500
The total number of programs and services implemented through The Arc of the Mid Ohio Valley through the work of 17 staff
What is 29, 30, or 31? (Depending on the time of year)
500
This resource that was developed for self-advocates by staff of The Arc of the MOV has been presented at the national level and is now used as a tool by The Arc of the United States.
What is the "Get Connected Guide"?
500
This annual project of The Arc raises over $9,000 each year in sponsorships for gifts, cookies, toiletries, and housekeeping items for 252 teens and adults with developmental disabilities.
What is Secret Christmas?
500
These would be names of a Senator and a Delegate who represent Wood county at the state level, who will be educated on issues that impact the lives of people with disabilities.
Who are Senator Boley or Ashley?
Who are Delegates Kelly, Border, Azinger, or Anderson?
500
This is the year in which the name of the agency changed from the all-caps-acronym "ARC" to the two-word-not-all-caps-no-acronym "The Arc".
What is 1992?
(Yes, it was 26 years ago when the other acronym name was replaced, and we are still trying to get folks to change to the "new"! Hint. Hint. :-) )
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