Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arc of San Francisco


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The result was Merge into Arc of the United States Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 10:52, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

Arc of San Francisco

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Promotional, to the extent of possible speedy G11. Only refs. from its own city  DGG ( talk ) 21:22, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 00:14, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 00:15, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Disability-related deletion discussions. North America1000 01:33, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.  The book notes: "Today, targeted job placement efforts are underway throughout the United States by national nonprofits such as ARC and Goodwill and thousands of local job-placement providers. The programs often are funded through state departments of rehabilitation or federal disability funds. These targeted efforts generally utilize the same intensive job search assistance and follow-up as in 'Jobs for All.' The San Francisco ARC, for example, serves persons with a wide range of disabilities such as cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, and wheelchair use. Like ARCs around the country, the San Francisco ARC has seen a sharp increase in clients with autism in the past five years so that now persons with autism form the majority of new clients. For nearly forty-five years, from the 1950s through early 2003, the ARC operated a sheltered workshop, a separate workplace in which workers with disabilities performed basic tasks such as packaging and mailing. Today, the emphasis is on workforce inclusion. Recent San Francisco ARC placements have been in supermarket chains, Safeway and Trader Joe's (clerk and bagger positions), retailers Noah's Bagels and Starbucks (maintenance, stocking), and the city's major law and advertising firms (facilities set-up and office support). Salesforce.com, the cloud computing giant, employees fifteen ARC placements, a mix of part-time and full-time, in facilities set-up activities. With ARC's growing autism population, a good number of whom have college degrees, ARC staff hope to expand to a higher pay and skill level of job in these companies and others. But ARC is still searching to break through to jobs above the lower-wage and contigent positions. ARC is the largest of the Bay Area job-placement entities for persons with autism and other neurological/physical conditions, but only one of the networks of providers." The book further notes: "Terry Goodwin is the director of business development and partnerships at the ARC, where she has worked for over twenty-five years. She is in charge of ARC efforts to develop job placements in mainstream firms. This usually means convincing firms to at least try out workers with disabilities, who they wouldn't hire through the normal hiring processes. ARC serves the range of workers with disabilities, but, as noted in the Chapter 4, adults with autism now comprise the greatest number of new clients. The ARC adults with autism themselves comprise a range of abilities and skills. The easiest to place are those who have significant language along with a high school degree (or, in rarer cases, college or college degrees). ... Additionally, ARC has developed a form of supported work for the more severely impacted that involves project-based tasks. ARC, as the subcontractor, acts as the employer of record. It has developed contracts with a major assisted-living facility to do laundry tasks, with the local convention industry to perform labeling and bagging of convention materials, and with the federal Department of Health and Human Services to arrange file folders. The work crews are sent on site to perform the tasks and are accompanied by job coaches. Though the employment is irregular, the ARC as employer does pay minimum wage and tries to use the assignments as evaluation opportunities for transitioning at some future time into more direct employment." The book further notes: "For over forty years, from the early 1960s, ARC operated a sheltered workshop (sometimes known as a 'community workshop') for the more severely impacted. Like many sheltered workshops around the nation, it closed in the early 2000s, the result of both economics and policy shifts. But there are person in the autism community who are already calling for its return. Jack Fagan was hired as an instructor at the ARC sheltered workshop in 1993 and in a few years became its director. He stayed until it closed in 2003. He regards the years he spent at the sheltered workshop as the most satisfying of his career. He is among those who believe should return in some form. In the early 1990s, Jack recalls that the ARC had around 100–120 clients at any time participating in the sheltered workshop located on the second floor of the ARC building. The ARC had contracts for assembling products and sorting/filling merchandise bags—for example with Leapfrog, then a major manufacturer of educational toys, and Jessica McClintock, the garment and fashion firm."  The article notes: "Founded by a group of parents concerned about the lack of services for their sons and daughters, The Arc of San Francisco has been serving clients with intellectual and developmental disabilities since 1951. The organization helps its 460 clients in San Francisco — 10 percent of whom are from the East Bay — find jobs and housing and participate in creative recreation within the city. Clients attend local colleges with the help of The Arc's programs. They work out at gyms like Crunch and the local YMCA — and work as employees there, too. ... The Arc of San Francisco's ArtReach Studios' classes are held there, too. The program, which started three years ago in Pacifica, is likened to an art academy or art school. Adults with developmental disabilities pursue art as a means of personal expression and as a way to learn new skills. The artists work with various media, from photography to sound sculpture. They sell their work at various gallery shows, too. ArtReach grew out of its modest Pacifica home after word about the quality of programming spread."  The article notes: "THEY ARE GREETERS at SBC Park and the San Francisco Conservatory, janitors at the Courtyard Marriott, paper shredders, coffee attendants and mail clerks throughout San Francisco. And there are 100 more like them who are in need of a place to work. Since 1951, The Arc of San Francisco has been a resource that links people with developmental disabilities, such as cerebral palsy, autism, epilepsy and mental retardation with businesses willing to hire them. But now, with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget cuts and President Bush threatening to cut Social Security income further, those with disabilities need jobs more than ever. ... The list of employers who hire through The Arc is growing -- Starbuck's, Albertsons, KRON Channel 4, to name a few -- but the number of potential employees is far greater." There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Arc of San Francisco to pass Notability, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". Cunard (talk) 05:02, 8 September 2017 (UTC) 
 * The promotional content was added here. The prior version was neutral and written by me. I have reverted the promotional changes. Cunard (talk) 05:02, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 02:16, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete A regional chapter of an organization does not inherit notability from its parent. Rhadow (talk) 13:05, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete or Merge with parent organization: Per Rhadow, this article subject is a regional chapter of a wider organization, and this page is not significant enough to warrent it's own page.--SamHolt6 (talk) 15:49, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
 * This regional chapter received extensive discussion in the book source I quoted above. I think that's very significant coverage. But I am fine with a merge to Arc of the United States in lieu of deletion. Cunard (talk) 17:19, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I have merged the material to Arc of the United States. Cunard (talk) 23:02, 16 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Arc_of_the_United_States where the subject is mentioned. Not independently notable. K.e.coffman (talk) 19:12, 18 September 2017 (UTC)


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