Category Archives: COVID19
COVID-19: Advocate For Reasonable Accommodations For Visitor Policies
Pathways to Friendship: Valuable Friendship Lessons Learned During COVID-19
COVID-19: Federal Policy Update on April 23, 2020
COVID-19: Accommodations Recommendations for Hospitals

The Arc is pleased with revisions made in the Commonwealth’s Crisis Standards of Care released on April 20. But we still need to work together to address accommodations further with hospitals and/or a limited advisory as in NYS, which focuses on support during hospitalization. The Disability Law Center is coordinating a further effort on this issue.
The Arc’s COVID-19 Updates | April 20, 2020: Let’s Be Human

Today is Patriots Day. It’s a day when we celebrate the Boston Marathon and the battles of Lexington and Concord. It’s a day, too, for remembering those who died and were injured in 2013 when two terrorists detonated bombs on Boylston Street. A common theme between 2013 and 2020 will be grief. Many within and outside our community have already experienced loss due to this virus. Others have missed memorializing the loss of a loved one due to the social distancing requirements.