Easter Seals Disability Services

About Easter Seals Arc

Mission – Easter Seals Arc provides exceptional services to ensure that all people with disabilities or special needs and their families have equal opportunities to live, learn, work and play in their communities.

Tag line: Creating Solutions, Changing Lives.

Vision – To build a world where all people with disabilities and their families are equal in every way, and can realize their goals, dreams and aspirations.

Core Values - Easter Seals Arc's 'Values' define how we make decisions and interact with each other. These are statements about what we believe and how we work with individuals who are engaged with Easter Seals Arc as clients, donors, volunteers and employees.

Easter Seals Arc of Northeast Indiana has been serving people with disabilities and special needs and their families for over half of the last century.  What is now Easter Seals Arc began as Johnny Appleseed School in 1954 with a small group of Fort Wayne parents who held a dream for their children with developmental disabilities.  That dream included education, skill training, recreation, integration and support that would enable their children to live within the community at the level of independence of their choice.

Now over 57 years later, the same basic principles and philosophy remain at the core of our ever-growing list of services.  Easter Seals Arc's affiliation with both Easter Seals and The Arc empower us to provide the highest quality of services and resources for children and adults with a wide range of disabilities.  We are proud of our geographical expansion, our growing list of progressive programs and our personal commitment to each person and family we serve.  

The Easter Seals Arc primary list of services includes:

• Adult Day Center
• Adult Foster Care
• Behavioral Services
• Dream Teens
• Group Home Living
• iTeens
• J-TOP: Job Training Opportunities
• Network for Safe Families
• NISH Ability One Employment
• Projects Drive Group Work Facility
• Recreation
• Residential Support
• Respite/Caregiver Support
• Supervised Visitation
• Supports Groups/Activities
• Transition Day Services

Click here to view a complete Service Guide that further explains what we offer.

2011 Annual Report

For further financial information on Easter Seals Arc, check the Guidestar website.

For further information on any of our services, contact us or email Donna K. Elbrecht at delbrecht@esarc.org .