About Us

The Arc of Hancock County  promotes and protects human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities(i/dd) and supports their full inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetimes.

A. To promote the general welfare of persons with developmental disabilities in Hancock County and elsewhere

B. To foster development of programs in their behalf

C. To encourage research related to developmental disabilities

D. To advise and aid parents in the solution of their problems and to coordinate their efforts and activities

E. To develop a better understanding of the problems of persons with developmental disabilities by the public

F. To cooperate with all public, private and religious agencies and professional groups in the furtherance of these ends

G. To associate with and support the Arc of Indiana and Arc of the United States to promote the common cause

H. To serve locally as a clearinghouse for gathering and giving out information about developmental disabilities

The Arc of Hancock County is a nonprofit, nonpolitical, and nonsectarian organization that was formed April 1961 by concerned parents of children with Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities(I/DD).