Calendar Of Events
Annual Rainbow Walkathon
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Bogota Recreation, Bogota
Annual Membership Meeting/
Founders Day
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Annual Golf Classic
Monday, October 6, 2008
Preakness Hills CC, Wayne
Annual Holiday Party
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Venetian, Garfield
is a private not-for profit organization of families, self advocates,
professionals and community members dedicated to assisting individuals with
developmental disabilities and their families. The Arc is a membership
organization affiliated with
The Arc of New Jersey and
The Arc of the United States.

A Farewell Message from James Seath
It has been a great privilege and distinct honor to have been entrusted with the leadership of this organization for the last twenty-two years; I will always reflect upon and cherish the memory of this experience.
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A Message from Kathy Walsh, Incoming President/CEO
Some sixty years ago a letter written by a Teaneck mother, Laura Sparks Blossfeld, appeared in the Bergen Evening Record which suggested the formation of an organization of parents. On June 10, 1947 the first general meeting was held at the YMCA in Paterson. Parents from a wide area were invited and forty-one attended. The Arc movement in New Jersey was born.
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