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.
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.
David has found outdoor work he enjoys and a place where he truly belongs. Whether he is riding his jet ski on the Eastern Shore or working outdoors, David Lindauer is happiest when he is out in the fresh air. He loved his previous part-time job at a vineyard where
Curtis and Mike are building lasting relationships while making a difference on the job.   Purpose, relationships, and consistent work matter deeply to Curtis Brown and Mike Ingram. With support from Penn-Mar’s employment team, they have found all three through part-time jobs at Royal Farms, a convenience store chain known for prepared foods,
Cindy Rohrbaugh’s Personal Outcome Measures (POMs) assessment helped turn her goals for independence into a plan. Since 2014, Cindy Rohrbaugh, 45, has lived with two Life Sharing families. The Life Sharing program at Penn-Mar’s Pennsylvania residential program provides an alternative to traditional group homes for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities