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Arc Advocacy Services:
About us
Arc Advocacy Services,
is a related organization with
The Arc of Montgomery, Berks & Bucks Counties
offering advocacy services to all residents within the three (3) counties.
Arc Advocacy assists people with a diagnosis of Intellectual Cognitive and
Developmental Disabilities and can include Autism Spectrum Disorders, Mental
Retardation, Mental Health and other Developmental Disabilities. In Berks County,
Arc Advocacy Services administers the Independent Monitoring for Quality (IM4Q)
Program that interviews consumers to record their quality of life and to obtain
their perspective on the services that they receive.
The primary mission is to assist people of all ages to obtain the rights
and resources they require to become, to the fullest extent possible,
independent, self sufficient, participating and contributing members of their
community.
Arc Advocacy offers families and self advocates assistance with all levels of
residential living (group homes); employment and training; home and community
based staffing; habilitation; and Special Education issues. Arc Advocacy
Services offers personal support as Representative Payee to safeguard and
expense governmental entitlements and also guardianship for individuals who
require either or both services. Arc Advocacy also provide individuals
assistance with access to governmental benefits such as Medicare, Medicaid, SSI,
SSDI, and Center for Medicaid Service Waivers.
The Advocacy staff can provide direct advocacy intervention to
individuals, as well as, addressing system wide issues in an effort to work
towards improving the various systems that impact on the lives of these
individuals.
Monthly
training and information presentations are provided in Montgomery,
Berks and Bucks Counties.
Trainings topics are based on volume of requested information and/or
developing trends seen as a result of the data collection system. Please
visit the
Arc Advocacy Services interactive Blog.
This portion of the website will be monitored daily and will offer a
description of the organizations services, as well as, valuable insight and
timely information on issues effecting consumers and families and will answer
and request comment on questions placed on the website.
Reading
Office
1829 New
Holland Road,
Suite 9
Reading,
PA
19607
610-603-0227
610-603-0229 (FAX)
tdareneau@marcpa.org
Eagleville
Office
3075 Ridge Pike
Eagleville,
PA
19430
610-265-4700
610-265-3439
info@marcpa.org
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