Dear Community Leaders and Supporters, The Arc Minnesota is a nonprofit organization devoted since 1950 to the promotion and protection of the human rights of individuals with intellectual and developmental […]

St. Paul, MN – August 14, 2024 – The Arc Minnesota is pleased to announce that Naveh Eldar has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), starting on […]

St. Paul, MN – June 28, 2024 – The Arc Minnesota, a leading organization in advocating for the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, is pleased to […]

As we approach Juneteenth, I want to take a moment to reflect on its significance and acknowledge its importance to our community and beyond. Juneteenth commemorates the freeing of enslaved […]

On Monday, July 10, we at The Arc Minnesota were devastated to learn that Bud Rosenfield, the State’s Ombudsman for Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, and former Supervising attorney at the […]

There is a debate in the disability community about the best way to describe people who have disabilities. We are all familiar with “People First” or “Person-Centered” language. I have been […]

This blog post was authored by Jillian Nelson and Andrea Zuber, co-Chairs of the Minnesota Task Force on Eliminating Subminimum Wages in response to a commentary article submitted to Access […]

On June 4, 2022 the Star Tribune published the story “‘The system is in ruins’: Minnesotans with disabilities feel left behind amid workforce shortage.” It highlights a critical problem impacting […]

There seems to be a widespread misunderstanding of legislation, led and championed by Minnesotans with disabilities, related to subminimum wage in Minnesota. What is the Taskforce on Subminimum Wage and […]

The dilemma The Direct Support Workforce Shortage has been a long time coming. It has been predicted for decades but as many things, it is now exacerbated by the global […]

As our country’s leaders in Washington, D.C. consider passing the Better Care Better Jobs Act (though its fate is currently unknown), which would invest hundreds of billions of dollars into […]

The Arc Minnesota celebrates the establishment of a task force to phase out subminimum wage. The practice of paying people less than minimum wage goes against our core mission to […]