Our mission is to create a world where children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities have and enjoy equal rights and opportunities.
Empowering Partners
Empowering Partners aims to raise awareness about the value of self-advocacy and reconvene or strengthen self-advocacy groups throughout the state.
The Arc Maryland, in partnership with People on the Go of Maryland and The Maryland Developmental Disabilities Council, is excited to share with you Empowering Partners, an outgrowth of the successful Partners in Policymaking® program.
About the Program
Empowering Partners serves as the foundation for self-advocacy groups in Maryland, with guidance from The Arc Maryland, local chapters, experienced self-advocate facilitators, and program partners. Through the program, self-advocacy groups share centralized discussion topics, activities, and a unified movement to grow from and build on.
It’s amazing how you can transform in a year. I can speak up for myself now and I’m not afraid to say I’m disabled. I want to be a voice for others and myself.
You are a part of this community, you are meant to be out there. Try to keep spreading your word, believe in yourself!
Erica Wheeler, Empowering Partners Facilitator
EMPOWER Monthly News
Find the latest news for Self-Advocacy Groups in Maryland through EMPOWER, a newsletter brought to you from The Arc Maryland. Check out our latest edition below. Each edition is shared with Empowering Partners Self-Advocacy Groups around the state.
You can join a Self-Advocacy Group near you supported by Empowering Partners to improve your advocacy skills! Here are upcoming meeting times in Maryland:
People On the Go of Southern Maryland | Charles, Calvert, and St. Mary’s Counties
To learn how you can join an Empowering Partners Self-Advocacy Group near you, contact Natalie Dohner at ndohner@thearcmd.org.
This opportunity is supported through a grant from The Maryland Developmental Disabilities Council, funded in part by a federal ARPA grant (non-overlapping Federal Funding sources), and in part by The Arc Maryland. This project is supported by the Administration for Community Living (ACL), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award totaling $1,262,502 with 100% funding by ACL/HHS. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by ACL/HHS, or the U.S. Government.
