Entrepreneurship on Display at Community Market

Entrepreneurship on Display at Community Market Every Sunday, the parking lot at City Hall is transformed into a busy, buzzing farmers market filled with booths and tables offering fresh regional produce, prepared foods, flowers, baked goods, artwork, and more.  Among the latest vendors to participate in this vibrant community spot? Quality Connections members, selling homemade […]

Disc Golf, Art, and Adventure: QC Summer Camp

Disc Golf, Art, and Adventure: QC Summer Camp One of the most popular traditions at QC Learning is our annual Summer Camp, where adults with disabilities come together for a season filled with fun, friendship, and discovery. For several years, Summer Camp has centered on days spent at Fort Tuthill County Park. But this year, […]

Finding Independence & Adventure on the San Juan River this Summer

Finding Independence & Adventure on the San Juan River For nine Quality Connections members from Flagstaff and Page, a journey this summer down the San Juan River offered more than just scenic canyon views and stories around the campsite. Instead, it was a transformative adventure filled with growth, independence, and new friendships. From June 28 […]

Inside the Pathways Program

Pathway program participants working on computers.

Inside the Pathways Program At Quality Connections, the Pathways Program empowers individuals with disabilities such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome, epilepsy, or cognitive disabilities as they chart their own course toward meaningful employment and personal growth. Pathways is short for Pathways to Employment, and is authorized through the Arizona Division of Developmental […]

Page Update: The Express

Page Update: The Express Six months after assuming operations of the Helping Hands Agency (now Page Quality Connections) for individuals with disabilities in Page, Quality Connections will soon begin running its sister service that provides highly needed public transit for the entire community. The relaunched service will be overseen by Ginger Burgess, most recently the […]

Adventure, Teamwork & Community

Missions & Madness team reviews a map at Buffalo Park

Adventure, Teamwork & Community At Quality Connections, empowering adults with disabilities to thrive through learning, creativity, and meaningful experiences is at the heart of everything we do.  Recently, our Adult Day Program took that mission out into the community with an exciting event: Missions & Madness at Buffalo Park. A blend of scavenger hunt, Dungeons […]

A Mother’s Day Story

Celebrating Socorro Hernandez-Bernasconi If you ask Armando Bernasconi – who co-founded Quality Connections 25 years ago to help individuals with disabilities achieve independence – what influence his mother had on his choice of career, he’ll admit the answer is complicated. “I’m not sure I appreciated what she was doing when I was growing up,” he […]

Intern Spotlight

Intern Spotlights Central to our mission at Quality Connections are the talented interns who bring fresh perspectives, dedication, and enthusiasm to our team.  We’re excited to introduce you to two of our current interns, Jade Hieger and Vannessa Nnantah, as well as Nathan Sherrill, who started as an intern and is now a full-time team […]

Promoting Opportunity & The Environment

Promoting Opportunity & The Environment Building upon its existing e-waste services for QC Office customers, Quality Connections is proud to announce the launch of its “Empowering Through E-Waste” program.  This initiative, made possible by a generous grant from the City of Flagstaff Neighborhood Sustainability Grant Program, will significantly broaden QC’s impact on local e-waste reduction […]

Our Work Training Crews

QC Work Training Crew members Jonathan and Ben in front of Late for the Train's Roastery.

QC Work Training Crews Brewing Up Skills at Roastery Each week, Quality Connections members Jonathan and Ben pile into a car with their Employment Services Specialist, Jade Gonzales,  and head over to a coffee roastery owned by Late for the Train.  There, as members of Quality Connections’ Work Training Crews, they perform janitorial work, cleaning […]

Expansion into Page Begins

Members of QC staff meet with participants and staff at Helping Hands.

Expansion into Page Begins Merging two organizations, even those with similar missions, can often be a complicated process. Different systems, cultures, and ways of doing things can create challenges along the way. But the transition as Quality Connections assumes operations of the Helping Hands Agency in Page has been remarkably smooth – and for good […]

NAU Honors Quality Connections Co-Founder

Melissa Bernasconi standing in front of a screen projecting her picture at the NAU Hall of Fame ceremony.

NAU Honors Quality Connections Co-Founder Melissa Bernasconi, who co-founded Quality Connections 25 years ago, was recently honored by her alma mater, Northern Arizona University, which inducted her into the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Hall of Fame at a earlier this month. The recognition celebrates her decades of dedication to improving the lives of […]