CHAPTERS CELEBRATE DEVELOPMENTAL DISABI L I T I ES AWARENESS MONTH (DDAM)
ARC HERKIMER ROCKS DDAM WITH BATTLE OF THE BANDS
ARC OF ONONDAGA PROMOTES INCLUSIVITY
Arc Herkimer hosted a lip sync contest in March as a fun way to "rock out" for DDAM. Various departments, classrooms, and houses created lip- sync music videos that were posted to the agency's Facebook page.
During Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month (DDAM) in March, the Arc of Onondaga created the "See Me. See Us." campaign, designed to help build a more inclusive and accepting community for those with developmental and intellectual disabilities. Onondaga's self-advocacy group, The Arc Achievers, spearheaded the campaign and created flyers and buttons to help promote it. They even invited News Channel 9 over to discuss the campaign's goal in a live news segment, during which members talked about being treated with dignity and kindness and dubbed March 14 as the first ever "See Me. See Us." Day in Onondaga County and the city of Syracuse,
13 groups of different ages and abilities participated in the contest, and the video with the most 'Likes' was declared the winner of the contest; this year's winner was Valley Commons with their Baby Shark video. Great job to all of the participants!
RIBBONS FOR AWARENESS
Arc Herkimer's respite programmade blue and yellow awareness ribbons for I/DD and the agency's Gentleman’s Group went around and surprised staff members with the ribbons. Staff wore the ribbons in support of people supported and all individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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