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Penn-Mar Human Services Receives $25,000 Grant From Aegon Transamerica Foundation

Posted on May 2, 2025

– Funds Will Be Used to Equip 30 Residential Homes with Smart Home Technology – May 2, 2025 Baltimore – Penn-Mar Human Services, the region’s leading provider of services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), is delighted to share that the organization has…

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Upping Our Game for Training and Development

Posted on November 11, 2019

Of the many investments Penn-Mar has made over the past two years, perhaps one the most significant has been the organization’s commitment to the training and development of its team members. While programs have always been in place to properly initiate new team members and…

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Penn-Mar Human Services Names New Board Chair

Posted on November 11, 2019

Doug Rein Takes Over Board of Directors Lead Role as Penn-Mar Looks to Next Decade Penn-Mar Human Services (PMHS), the region’s leading provider of services for individuals with developmental disabilities (IDD), announced today that Doug Rein will assume the role of chair of the PMHS’…

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Derek Hamburg: Keeping an Eye on the Ball and His Future

Posted on October 25, 2019

Derek Hamburg is a self-professed “people person” and unrivalled lover of sports. He has been progressively sharpening his public speaking skills ever since high school with a dream of becoming a sportscaster. This fall he was recruited by Carroll County’s Francis Scott Key (FSK) High…

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Guest Columnist: Gordon Warehime, Jr. | An Untapped Skilled, Motivated, and Deserving Workforce

Posted on October 17, 2019

By Gordon Warehime Jr., Brothers Services Company Our company CEO approached me one day with what was then an unusual request. One of his business associates — a board member at Penn-Mar Human Services – had inquired if there might be some job opportunities in…

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Guest Columnist: Kelly Baker | Electronic Badges the New Path to DSP Certification

Posted on September 25, 2019

By Kelly Baker, Career Ladders Program Coordinator Since August I have been immersed in my new role as Career Ladders Program Coordinator. As many of you know, this is a career development and credentialing program designed to help improve the skills and earning potential of our…

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Introducing Our HEART Award Winners – August 2019

Posted on August 19, 2019

The Penn-Mar HEART Committee is proud to announce our most recent round of HEART Award winners! The Penn-Mar HEART Award program recognizes team members whose passion and performance leave the mark of their own legacy through exceptional demonstrations of Honesty, Excellence, Advocacy, Respect, and Team…

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Going the Distance

Posted on August 6, 2019

Joe Ginter hadn’t finished his first day on the job at the new HomeGoods store in Hunt Valley, Md., when the compliments started coming in.   That was this past April Fool’s Day as Joe, 23, noted, and five months in he’s loving his job and the people he works with, who he said, “love me…

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Finding the Champion Within

Posted on August 5, 2019

By Sue Maras, Penn-Mar Parent As parents, all you really want for your children is for them to be happy. By the time our son Stephen was nine months old, we discovered he had developmental delays. Over time he was diagnosed with high-functioning autism and an intellectual disability.   There…

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Lightening the Load

Posted on August 2, 2019

Normandie Ridge, the Continuous Care Retirement Community in York, Pa., didn’t have a dedicated dishwasher until two years ago, when York native Michael Blashock took on the job. As Normandie Ridge Food Service Director Chris Rhoades put it, dining services staff would routinely step in…

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Guest Columnist: Michael F. Shriver | My Surreal Return to Penn-Mar

Posted on July 2, 2019

By Michael F. Shriver, Consultant, Penn-Mar Human Services I first met Greg Miller, Penn-Mar’s CEO, at a leadership development program in the mid-80s sponsored by the Ryan Family Foundation. Obviously he was a great note taker and I must have been a great judge of…

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