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 […]