The Arc Of Tennessee Inc

PASS Project Personal Assistance Supports and Services - Enhances community supports by demonstrating amodel of self-directed personal assistance through the provision of tools, mentoring and trainings to allow individuals with disabilities to manage and control their own care.

Family Engagement in Education - The Arc of Tennessee Partners with the Tennessee Department of Eductation through a contract to increase the quality and quantity of family engagement in special education. We reach families statewide in many ways including an E-newsletter, social media, our website and more. This year we launched our own dedicated website with resources for families and teachers at familyengagementtn.com. After COVID had us pivot to doing more virtually, we have continued to work closely with the team at the department of education to provide information to families through monthly facebook live QA sessions. We launched a pilot project working with the special education directors and family resource directors in six districts across the state to target family engagement practices and create parent support groups and parent advisory councils specifically for families of students ith disabilities which we are excited to bring statewide next school year.