Don Melloy - Development of The Arc Chapters

Don Melloy - Development of The Arc Chapters

The Arc of Indiana

Advocacy

Family

“They asked me to work on the objective of developing an Arc in every county in Indiana,” says Don Melloy. Don would take off after to work to travel around the state meeting with parents and community members. He would discuss the benefits of establishing a local Arc. To Don’s surprise, he found some groups of parents were not interested in talking with other groups of parents. The original focus of The Arc was to provide programming to children with disabilities who were excluded from public schools. Don says the United Way and other non-profit organizations were instrumental in funding many of the early initiatives of the local Arc agencies.

Indiana Disability History Project

Center for Health Equity at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community and Indiana Governor's Council for People with Disabilities

2018-02-16

Don Melloy - Interviewee

Jennie Todd - Interviewer

Peggy Holtz - Videographer/Editor

Copyright © 2018 The Trustees of Indiana University

video/mp4

English

Moving Image

101mi-01

Open to all users

"Don Melloy - Development of Arc Chapters" YouTube video, 00:06:10, interview excerpt 100-mi-01 by the Indiana Disability History Project, posted by "Indiana Disability History" on February, 16, 2018, https://youtu.be/M0g-VcnIdF0.

Indiana

Indiana, Marion County, Indianapolis

1970s