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  • Our staff and board have a strong commitment to serving the diverse population of our organization. Learn more.

  • Are you looking for meaningful job opportunities? Look no further! Careers.

  • The Cultural Arts Center fosters creativity, self-confidence, and community connections for adults with developmental disabilities through classes in the visual and performing arts, outings to cultural venues, and opportunities to collaborate with other artists and arts-based organizations.

  • Employment Partners administers a vocational evaluation and provides skills training, job placement and job coaching. Highly individualized plans are created and implemented for each person in the program with the definitive goal of finding long-term, independent, competitive community-integrated employment.

  • Home and Community-Based Services provides assistance for people to achieve a more independent quality of life by providing access to their community in an exciting new way.

  • Help our participants experience the benefits of community inclusion and keep them on their path to independence. Donate now.

  • UniqueSource and PennDOT
    UniqueSource and PennDOT

    Through partnership with UniqueSource Products and Services, we are able to facilitate career opportunities at area PennDOT Driver's Center.

  • The Vocational Training Center helps individuals learn skills that will help them thrive in community-based jobs.

News & Announcements

The Arc of Philadelphia and SpArc Services had a great semester hosting Nina and Tierney, students in the Master of Science in Occupational Therapy program at Jefferson University. Nina and Tierney got involved with our organization through our HealthMeet program, an initiative of The Arc of Philadelphia that connects  with students in the health professions to teach them about inclusive medicine and working with people with disabilities.

We sat down with Tierney and Nina to hear more about what they learned during the semester and how they applied their occupational therapy curriculum to projects and activities designed for program participants.

Recently we had a Q&A with Mervin Giddins, Job Developer/ Job Coach. Get to know "Merv" by reading the full session.

The Arc of Philadelphia is pleased to announce that the William Penn Foundation will be the lead supporter of our 2021-2022 Parent IEP Training program.

Read about SpArc Cultural Arts staff member, Fred Henzel, who is also a working artist in Philadelphia. He discusses his background in the arts, how he infuses the arts into his daily work, and what he's learned at SpArc.

Neurodiversity in the Workplace Partner Organizations