Kenneth Bence

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Health Chatter · Disabilities Research & Policy with Kenneth Bence · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

And so, again, that's going to be, continues to be a growing and emerging area to really come up with new things.

There's a national group association that basically does what we do at the national level.

Their acronym is A-N-C-O-R.

We call it ANCOR.

And so they are based out of in the DC area.

And so they, we are a member of them as they call it a state, we're a state affiliate.

And so they kind of take things from the national standpoint.

So many states have a state association similar to what ARM does.

And there are a few state associations in Minnesota.

So we arm represents mostly the residential services side of things.

There's another association that represents people who run day programs that people with disabilities will go to for programs during the day and also employment programs.

There's a growing movement to have what they call community integrated employment.

And so for people to work

regular wage jobs in the community and to have that.

And so there are a number of services to help them find jobs and hold jobs.

And so oftentimes they need supports to work with them side by side with them to help them maintain that job.

And so those are a couple other areas where there are advocacy organizations similar to ARM.

One thing that is happening at the national level is

I mentioned earlier about the direct support workforce, those people who work directly with people with disabilities, and how low wages that they are paid.

And it turns out that there is no, and the US Department, Bureau of Labor Statistics maintains huge troves of data on all the occupations that are defined throughout the US.

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