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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…
Posted on January 30, 2019
Taking its name from the old, stately manor homes surrounding it among the bucolic horse farms and rolling countryside of Monkton in northern Baltimore County, the Manor Tavern has been reinvigorated over the past few years as a major dining destination under the helm of…
Posted on January 24, 2019
By Jen Skelly, Director of Pennsylvania Services If you are engaged with the Penn-Mar mission, you have undoubtedly heard us use the phrase “person-centered” as it relates to every interaction we have with the people that we support. In many ways the words speak for…
Posted on January 22, 2019
What started out as a weekly volunteer effort for a group of Penn-Mar Day Program participants, at the Golden Connections Community Center in Red Lion, Pa., has blossomed into something magical. Every Friday, for the past six months, Penn-Mar Community Activities Instructor Tammy Beavers has…
Posted on December 27, 2018
Penn-Mar Maryland Program Manager Michelle Delozier can pinpoint the very day she nominated Eric Williams, a member of Penn-Mar’s Facilities Maintenance team, for the nonprofit’s P.R.I.D.E. Award. It was a Sunday, and a Maryland resident who had been recently diagnosed with dementia, had managed to…
Posted on December 18, 2018
By Gregory MillerPresident/CEO Penn-Mar Human Services They say if time moves quickly you must be having a good time (or getting older!). If true, 2018 must have been the best of times for Penn-Mar, a fast-paced year brimming with major accomplishments fueled by our culture…
Posted on December 18, 2018
To hear Joe Ferranti tell it, the owner of Sons of Sicily Pizza, the day Rita walked through his door for a part-time job was the best day of his life. For the past three years, he has watched her build friendships with his staff…
Posted on November 28, 2018
With a part-time job she loves at Flowers by Cindy in Glen Rock, Pa., and surrounded by the love and support of all the people in her life, it’s easy to say that everything’s coming up roses for Holly Burkholder. Holly, 45 and a longtime…
Posted on November 26, 2018
Alexa Wheeler’s young career has always been dedicated to serving others, something she sees as a calling, and her gift. In the one year she’s been with Penn-Mar, she has not only thrived in her role as Community Activity Instructor, providing one-on-one support to Penn-Mar…
Posted on November 25, 2018
The Baltimore Business Journal’ s In The C-Suite profiled our CEO, Greg Miller, for bringing more people with disabilities into Maryland’s workforce. This profile highlighted a recent initiative of ours that brought business owners and government officials together to meet with those who employee individuals…
Posted on November 20, 2018
In the early 1920s, 400 sycamore trees were planted along a 12-mile stretch of the Susquehanna Trail, from Jacobus to the Maryland Line in York County, Pa. The Road of Remembrance, as it was named, was created in honor of those who served in World…