The Arc Nassau

10/11/2025

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10/08/2025

💛🧡Thank you for helping us show Nassau that inclusion matters.💛🧡

10/08/2025

Thank you to all who supported this endeavor! What an incredible opportunity for our community. 💛

10/08/2025

🌈 Thursdays are for Play at The Arc Nassau! 🌈

We’re thrilled to partner with the Early Learning Coalition of Duval with Help Me Grow Florida to host a free, weekly playgroup for families with children ages 0–5!

Join us every Thursday from 10:00–11:30 a.m. (September 25 – December 18) for a morning filled with songs, stories, art, and hands-on fun — all designed to encourage healthy development, school readiness, and joyful learning.

📍 The Arc Nassau
86051 Hamilton Street, Yulee, FL 32097

🎨 Play. Learn. Grow. Together.
All are welcome — bring a friend and join the fun!

For more information please reach out to Maura with ELC: mcolon@elcduval.org

10/07/2025

The Arc Nassau supports responsible development and growth. We want to preserve resources that serve our community. We know growth is inevitable and change is necessary; however, we ask for the opportunity to address these concerns head on and work towards a resolution that supports responsible growth and protects necessary resources.

Tonight is the County Commissioner’s meeting at 96135 Nassau Place (James S. Page Governmental Complex) in Yulee if you’d like to make your voice heard in person.

I’ve had a few conversations leading up to this meeting with the Planning Board and Rayonier’s project engineer. The bottom line is they’d like to know if they got the colors right on the map- are they rezoning appropriately? I hope our voices are heard that they did not, and this is not the plan that we would like to see them send forward to the state for approval.

A few things that I’ve heard along the way:
-They cannot change our own personal property zoning, so we will remain open rural. (Per the planning board). But the Rayonier representative continued to tell me we would become T 2.5. I’m not a lawyer, but I feel like I need one to tell me what is truly happening and what can happen. It definitely seems like a fuzzy issue for a lay person to understand.
-Both the Planning Board and the Rayonier representative have said there is no actual site plan in the works for this area. This was meant to be reassuring that development is not imminent, however the rezoning is. Once it’s rezoned, there is little we can do once there is a site plan because they can pack 3-5 houses per acre as laid out in the zoning ordinances.
-We’ve been assured that Rayonier wants to be a good neighbor. We’re hoping that this is true and they will amend the current plan to include more open rural space around us before submitting to the state and approving.

It’s not too late to email your commissioners if you cannot make the meeting tonight.

If you can do nothing else (and even if you can and have!), please pray for clarity and wisdom for those making the final decisions. Pray that those who speak are able to do so with strength and peace, and pray that God continues to write the story of Paramount to be a blessing in our community.

10/03/2025

Well friends! What can we say? Welcome to Florida! We want to thank everyone who joined us for trunk or treat! The weather was amazing until just now! Oh well! It doesn’t stop us from sharing the love and celebrating the fun!

10/03/2025

It’s almost time!!! We are so excited to welcome our community friends and practice trick or treating!

10/02/2025

Chloe O’Brien, Community Engagement Manager of Special Olympics with us tonight!

10/01/2025

Ready to get spooky? 🎃👻 Join us for an evening of inclusion and fun! We are hosting our annual Teach me to Trunk-or-Treat event right here in house! Come see us at The Arc Nassau on October 3rd @ 5:30pm! We look forward to seeing you!👀👻💀🎃

10/01/2025

Exciting news! We are selling tickets in house! You will also have the opportunity to purchase them throughout the month of October at any one of the events we are at, including our Trunk-or Treat event on Friday October 3rd! Remember, when you purchase a ticket for the raffle, you are supporting our friends with intellectual and developmental disabilities. So thank you for being our community angels. 😇 We also want to Thank Bert Norman's Plumbing INC. Thank you for supporting our mission! 🧡💛🧡💛