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Assistive Technology Solutions Enhance Supports for People with Disabilities 

Posted on June 19, 2025

This article was originally published in World of Possibilities Magazine’s Fall 2024 edition. It was written by Allis Kensing, Enabling Technology Manager at Penn-Mar. My first experience with Assistive Technology (AT) solutions was in 2016 while working for a provider to find employment opportunities for…

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Guest Columnist: Jen Skelly, Person Centered Planning

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…

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Making Golden Community Connections

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…

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Going Above and Beyond in Serving a Greater Good

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…

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A Year of Transformation; a Hunger for Innovation

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…

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A Valued Member of the Sons of Sicily Family

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…

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Everything’s Coming Up Roses

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…

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Using Her Gifts

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…

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Penn-Mar Helping to Bring People with Disabilities into Maryland’s Workforce

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…

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Penn-Mar Volunteers Helped Plant 61 New Trees on the Road of Remembrance

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…

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Safety Education Collaboration Earns Special Recognition

Posted on November 5, 2018

Safety is top-of-mind at Penn-Mar for both staff and the individuals they support. And according to Charlotte Quante, a DSP in the Day Program at Far Hills and a member of the Penn-Mar Safety committee, “When it comes to safety concerns and guidance, it’s good…

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