We believe everyone is employable. As an Employment 1st provider, Penn-Mar supports people to connect their interests, skills, and conditions for success to competitive integrated employment.
Our Employment Team assists each employment seeker with an evidence-based Discovery process to match them with a career of their choice, and supports them to maintain and expand on their employment opportunities. Penn-Mar currently supports over 100 individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in various jobs throughout Northern Baltimore County and Carroll County Maryland, and York and Adams Counties in Pennsylvania. We are an OVR Provider for Pennsylvania employment and a Community Rehabilitation Provider with DORS in Maryland.
Competitive Integrated Employment is full or part-time work at minimum wage or higher, with wages and benefits similar to those without disabilities performing the same work, and fully integrated with co-workers without disabilities.”
Just like a road map, Customized Employment services help people move through their own unique employment journey. The Customized Employment process includes Discovery (home visits, community mapping, observations of familiar and unfamiliar tasks, work-based learning experiences designed to highlight an employment seekers interests, skills and conditions for success), creating a career plan, job development based upon a good match, job negotiation, and job coaching. This model individualizes the employment relationship in ways that meet the needs of both employee and employer.
The process is designed to take approximately 3 to 6 months. Throughout Customized Employment, our highly skilled employment specialists work 1:1 with employment seekers.
Penn-Mar’s Customized Employment program offers employers “value and talent” October 2025 is the 80th anniversary of National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), an annual recognition of the positive impact of people with disabilities in the American workforce.  This year’s NDEAM theme, “Celebrating Value and Talent,”
Assistive Tech will improve students’ job readiness through experiential learning. With the support of a $30,000 grant from Maryland Works, Penn-Mar is expanding its Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) Bootcamp program focused on providing tailored and impactful vocational training for success in the workforce for youth with disabilities
Gabby has discovered her true calling and is thriving and excelling in her career. In June, Gabby will be celebrating her 4th anniversary working for the Hardware Meets Software™ (HMS) Plant in Manchester, PA. The industrial automation company helps customers run their businesses with components
