Support Services
  • Article 28 Satellite Clinic - run as a joint venture with the Montgomery County ARCS clinic, New Dimensions in Health Care. Provides services in physical and occupational therapies, speech, psychiatry, podiatry, psychology and behavior counseling. 
  • Transportation - providing transportation to more than 230 consumers daily. 
  • Medicaid Service Coordination -a support service designed to assist individuals in obtaining services they need and/or desire.
  • Wee Care - an after school program designed to meet the needs of parents and children, inclusive of children with disabilities. This program presently serves Middleburgh and Schoharie school districts. 
  • Friendship Club -is a weekly recreation club for adults that meets from weekly from September through June. The program offers recreational and socialization activities in a community setting one evening each week. For individuals located on the bus route, transportation is available to and from meeting site.
  • Self Advocacy -supports individuals with disabilities to advocate for their own rights and choices.
  • Guardianship
  • In-Home Respite - For individuals/care givers needing in home respite services, the Schoharie County ARC provides reimbursement to families for approved respite services arranged by the family in their own homes.
  • Free Standing Respite - provides individuals and families/care givers opportunities for weekend respite out of the home. The Center is located in the Village of Cobleskill and is open Friday afternoon through Monday morning. In addition to overnight accommodations, the Center provides individualized support with daily living skills, medication administration and recreation. 
  • Residential Habilitation - for individuals established in their own home, or waiting for residential opportunity, the Schoharie County ARC offers in home residential habilitation services. Residential Habilitation Services are designed to provide an individual support in meeting personal goals in their home and community. These services are provided by trained staff that will work with the individual in their residence, or in the community.
 


Chapter of:

formerly the New York State Association of Retarded Children