From Valentine’s Cookies to E-Waste Recycling — It All Connects

Valentine’s Cookies to E-Waste Recycling — It All Connects At Quality Connections, we’ve always believed that the best skill-building happens when people are having fun. Valentine’s Day gave our adult day program teams in Page and Flagstaff the perfect opportunity for both festivities and growth.  In Page, Adult Day Program Manager Michaela Garcia and her […]

Work Training Crew Makes Impact at APS

Work Training Crew Makes Impact at APS Each week, Quality Connections members Donna and Jonathan arrive at APS with their Job Coach, Malaki Bailey, ready to work.  As part of Quality Connections’ Work Training Crews, they clean restrooms, mop and sweep common areas, dust, and on certain days, clean the linemen’s trucks. For a busy […]

Quality Connections Launches Diverge Media

Quality Connections Launches ‘Diverge Media’ Something special is happening behind the studio door at Quality Connections. Members are gathering around microphones, cameras are rolling, and voices that have sometimes never been heard before are finding their platform. Welcome to Diverge Media, QC’s reimagined online radio station that has evolved into a full media production program […]

Prescott Addition Expands QC Office Impact

Prescott Addition Expands QC Office Impact Although QC Office – the social enterprise arm of Quality Connections – is based in Flagstaff, it has customers all over the state.  It is an official supplier of Ink and toner and other office supplies to the state of Arizona, where we have a long-standing “state set-aside” contract […]

Everybody Dance Now!

Everybody Dance Now! It’s going to be a busy – and fun – October here at Quality Connections.  For the first time in several years, Quality Connections is bringing back one of its favorite traditions — the community DJ dance party, with our first one happening on Halloween night. We’ll be showing off our costumes (and […]

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

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

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 […]