People with developmental disabilities and their families need varying levels of services throughout their lives. Our services are developed to meet those needs by providing sufficient support and advocacy while also promoting autonomy and independence. In order to be successful, we rely on volunteers who donate time and talents, community partners who educate others about our services and the foundations and individual members who give financial gifts. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, with funding from private contributions, foundations, and government contracts. We are a local chapter of The Arc of the United States and The Arc of Washington.
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RULES FOR COMMUNITY USE AND PARTICIPATION OF OUR SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM:
We reserve the right to remove comments and restrict or ban users when our rules of community use and participation have been violated.
- Use common courtesy and be respectful of others; assume positive intent
- Submit your own original contact and avoid content that you know to be fraudulent
- Do not post someone else's copyrighted or intellectual property unless you have permission
- Never post confidential information
- Do not use this platform to communicate or post any content which is abusive, offensive, harassing, illegal, defamatory, libelous or hostile towards any individual or entity
- Do not solicit business or membership or financial support for another business or your own private business or promote or advertise a commercial product
- Do not post comments under multiple names or using another person's name
We always reserve the right to remove posts and comments that do not fit with our community
We reserve the right to refuse, remove, or block anyone from any part of our communications platform. Additionally, we reserve the right to decide who to share information with. Should someone use The Arc name or communications, including social media, to harass others or to distribute false or misleading information, we reserve the right to exclude those responsible from our communications platform or distribution lists. The Arc of King County's media activities serve 4 main functions:
1. Education and discussion of disability issues
2. Civic engagement and advocacy communications
3. Marketing for our program events
4. Fundraising
Our communications align with The Arc - United States position statements (https://thearc.org/position-statements/) and with the Guiding Values of Washington State Department of Social and Health Services Developmental Disability Administration
We support and value the views of traditionally marginalized voices, including but not limited to people with disabilities, Black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) folks; lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer/questioning, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA) folks; immigrants and refugees; and English language learners
