The Arc Raises The Bar

Disabilities Needn’t Mean No Future

Posted: August 25, 2012

By DOUG MANNERS

Cindy folds pizza boxes at The Arc’s Op Shop on Wednesday. The Arc has “created programs that didn’t exist” for people with disabilities, says Executive Director Mary Ellen Chewning. (Photos by Michael Reilly / DN-R)
Crystal and Charlie, clients at The Arc, stack pizza boxes at the Op Shop on Wednesday. “When we inititiated the Op Shop, many of those individuals [with disabilities] didn’t have anywhere to go,” says Mary Ellen Chewning, executive director of The Arc.
Mary Ellen Chewning, executive director of The Arc, and Chad fill bags with chocolate “coins” for The Arc’s 50th Anniversary celebration.
The Arc Executive Director Mary Ellen Chewning chats with Chad, a client, on Wednesday.

HARRISONBURG — In the not-too-distant past, doctors told parents that children born with Down syndrome and other visible symptoms of disabilities had no future.

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