Posted on July 24, 2024
By Gregory T. Miller, President and Chief Executive Officer, Penn-Mar Human Services | Chief Executive Officer, Penn-Mar Foundation Penn-Mar’s fiscal year began July 1 with a continuation of wage increases for our Direct Support Professionals (DSPs). You may recall that last year we announced a…
Posted on September 14, 2023
By Gregory T. Miller, President and Chief Executive Officer, Penn-Mar Human Services | Chief Executive Officer, Penn-Mar Foundation From September 10-16 we are celebrating Direct Support Professional Recognition Week to highlight the dedicated, innovative DSP workforce that is the heart and soul of supports for…
Posted on August 31, 2023
By Gregory T. Miller, President and Chief Executive Officer, Penn-Mar Human Services | Chief Executive Officer, Penn-Mar Foundation I hope all of you have had the time to pick up a book (or Kindle) this summer that you couldn’t put down and were anxious to…
Posted on July 24, 2023
By Gregory T. Miller, President and Chief Executive Officer, Penn-Mar Human Services | Chief Executive Officer, Penn-Mar Foundation Between the difficulties we faced during the COVID pandemic and the subsequent staffing shortages, we have asked a lot of our Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) over the…
Posted on June 26, 2023
By Gregory T. Miller, President and Chief Executive Officer, Penn-Mar Human Services | Chief Executive Officer, Penn-Mar Foundation Last August we introduced a new initiative called “Belonging” to help us get an accurate picture of what is going on in our organization from the perspective…
Posted on May 15, 2023
By Gregory T. Miller, President and Chief Executive Officer, Penn-Mar Human Services | Chief Executive Officer, Penn-Mar Foundation I just returned from the 2023 American Network of Community Options and Resources (ANCOR) Annual Conference in Chicago and found the attitude and mood of the event…
Posted on February 3, 2023
By Gregory T. Miller, President and Chief Executive Officer, Penn-Mar Human Services | Chief Executive Officer, Penn-Mar Foundation Our entire Penn-Mar community has been in mourning since last week when we learned that our dear friend and tireless supporter Jon Kinsley, 59, and his brother…
Posted on January 24, 2023
By Gregory T. Miller, President and Chief Executive Officer, Penn-Mar Human Services | Chief Executive Officer, Penn-Mar Foundation I would like to begin my New Year message with a shout out to those team members who worked long hours during the holidays with the men…
Posted on December 16, 2022
By Gregory T. Miller, President and Chief Executive Officer, Penn-Mar Human Services | Chief Executive Officer, Penn-Mar Foundation It’s interesting to me that there are parts to every year that feel similar to the last and yet each year is so fundamentally different than the…
Posted on November 15, 2022
By Gregory T. Miller, President and Chief Executive Officer, Penn-Mar Human Services | Chief Executive Officer, Penn-Mar Foundation When Kathy Rogers, Penn-Mar’s Chief Advancement Officer and I presented the idea of launching a major capital fundraising campaign in the midst of the pandemic to our…
Posted on October 13, 2022
By Gregory T. Miller, President and Chief Executive Officer, Penn-Mar Human Services | Chief Executive Officer, Penn-Mar Foundation Eric Pines from Authority Magazine asked me “What are the 5 things you wish someone had told you when you first started your career?” I’d like to…