Arc of Loudoun

Goal: $20,000.00

Specific Need

Would you help provide a miracle for a person with disabilities right here in our community? With your help, The Arc of Loudoun advocates for, educates, serves, and supports people with disabilities, their families, and the professionals who work with them. Through our five integrated programs, The Arc serves more than 5,000 of our neighbors each year who face disabilities of all kinds.

Thanks to several generous donors, The Arc of Loudoun has a $10,000 Challenge Match! Give today and your gift will be matched dollar for dollar up to $10,000! Tell your friends! Help us meet our match. 

Everyone has experienced, or will experience, a disability at some point in their lives. Disabilities may be temporary – as when a person is healing from a broken bone, and disabilities may be invisible – as when someone is experiencing mental illness. Anyone working through the challenges that living with a disability brings is, more often than not, struggling with financial challenges, as well.

And that’s where you come in. With your generosity and support, The Arc of Loudoun helps people learn to walk again … to talk again … to be educated and nurtured as the individuals that they are. The Arc offers a safe place to heal, to learn, and to grow. 

Miracles happen here every day. 

Mission

Our mission is to advocate for, educate, serve, and support people with disabilities and their families. Our vision is a lifetime of opportunities for people with disabilities ensuring a just, equitable world. Where there's help, there's hope - and at The Arc of Loudoun, there's always help!

Profile

The Arc of Loudoun, a local chapter of The Arc of the United States, is home to five integrated programs that serve the most vulnerable and underserved in Loudoun and the Greater DC Region—children and adults with disabilities, their families and caretakers, and the professionals who work to help them achieve their greatest potential. 

The Arc of Loudoun defines a disability as any condition that prevents, delays, or interferes with a person’s typical development or optimal achievement. A disability may be classified as behavioral/emotional, developmental, intellectual, learning, physical, and/or sensory. Disabilities may be temporary—as when a person is healing from a broken bone, and disabilities may be invisible—as when someone is experiencing mental illness.

At The Arc of Loudoun, it has always been and will always be our mission to advocate for, educate, serve, and support people with disabilities and their families. With this mission in mind, we have five unique programs collocated in Leesburg that serve ~5,000 people each year.

• Ability Fitness Center is therapeutic fitness and wellness center. Think of Gold’s Gym with a twist. Clients have access to highly specialized equipment, and their “personal trainers” are PhD-level physical therapists. Individuals with spinal cord injuries, brain injuries, stroke, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease, cerebral palsy, balance disorders, developmental disabilities, and other neurological conditions – especially those for whom medical insurance no longer offers coverage – thrive in AFC’s community of healing.
• “A Life Like Yours” ALLY Advocacy Center provides free information to ensure that people with disabilities have all of the information that they need to access all of the benefits and entitlements for which they’re eligible. ALLY offers guidance, support, events, training, and workshops to families and caretakers of those with disabilities, first responders, members of the criminal justice system, and to other professionals who work with the disability community.
• Aurora Behavior Clinic provides individualized Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy, Speech-Language Pathology (SLP) therapy, Occupational therapy, and Physical therapy options for children and adults with autism, ADD/ADHA, and other behavioral challenges, using highly specialized, individualized curricula focused on communication, social, behavior, and life skills.
• Aurora School is a year-round, private day school, licensed by the Virginia Department of Education, that provides 1:1+ education and related services to students throughout the region who have intellectual and developmental disabilities, particularly those with autism.
• Open Door Learning Center is an inclusive preschool that serves children with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities with a focus on building social skills, learning developmentally appropriate academics, and preparing preschool students and their parents for kindergarten.

At The Arc of Loudoun, we strive to bring about a just, equitable world for people with disabilities.

$16,186.72 received
in 54 gifts
and 2 prizes 80.93%  of  $20,000.00 Goal