Walmart Foundation Awards $3 Million to the Arc of the United States for Nationwide School-to-Community Transition Project

The grant will expand The Arc’s efforts to improve the quality of transition planning and transition services for youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities and autism by identifying successful programs that can be replicated nationwide. The funds will be dispersed thorough a competitive process to approximately 50 local chapters of The Arc that are operating promising school to community transition programs throughout the U.S.