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Posted on April 29, 2025
Trending at the 3rd Annual Inclusive Fashion Show held April 11th at The Jemicy School in Owings Mills, MD were soft fabrics with a “loungewear-esq” vibe, according to Tina Chan Sweenie, Associate Director of Development at Penn-Mar Human Services and one of the program’s organizers….
Posted on December 1, 2023
Penn-Mar owns and manages 58 residential units and three commercial buildings, spread throughout 500 square miles in Pennsylvania and Maryland. The responsibility for managing and maintaining these $37 million in gross fixed assets falls to the Facilities Team and Fleet Management Coordinator, which also oversees…
Posted on November 22, 2023
Natina Newsome has got the “Teeny Spirit.” Growing up in Baltimore with her large extended family, she was surrounded by love – “a lot of love”– one of the greatest sources of which came and continues to come from her grandmother Dorothy Newsome, Teeny, as…
Posted on November 16, 2023
Top businesses like Bank of America, Goodwill, YMCA, Ruby Tuesdays and Pizza Hut, along with school systems throughout Pennsylvania and Maryland, are delighted with the work ethic and skills of some 100 people they have hired through Penn-Mar’s Customized Employment Program. As an Employment 1st…
Posted on October 23, 2023
October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, and as part Penn-Mar’s ongoing mission to recognize the importance of ensuring that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities have equal opportunity to prepare for and succeed in employment, we regularly celebrate the many individuals who have found…
Posted on October 20, 2023
Each month, we highlight a “behind-the-scenes” team member whose work supports our mission, but whose face you might not often see on our social media pages. We’re excited to help you get to know our innovative team and the complex work we do. So, tune…
Posted on October 17, 2023
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 Teamwork. Kelly Baker, nominated by Jennifer Skelly “In 2016 Penn-Mar created the Career Ladder Program. Although there…
Posted on October 11, 2023
Penn-Mar team members, families and self-advocates were out in force this past May, meeting with legislators in Harrisburg and co-hosting a Legislative Roundtable with Pennsylvania Advocacy and Resources for Autism and Intellectual Disability (PAR), the largest and most active association of intellectual disability and autism…
Posted on October 2, 2023
– Maryland Daily Record’s Annual Award Honors Maryland’s Top Leaders – October 2, 2023 Baltimore – Penn-Mar Human Services, the region’s leading provider of services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), is proud to announce that President & CEO Greg Miller has been…
Posted on September 1, 2023
Jay Griffin loves Bonkey’s Ice Cream & Snoballs, not because of their delicious frozen confections (in which he would surely indulge, if he weren’t lactose intolerant), but because of the experience he’s had these past four years working with Bonkey’s co-owner Keith Gordon, “the best…
Posted on August 31, 2023
By Courtenay Dudek, Job Developer, DSP III | Penn-Mar Human Services Content Note: this blog post discusses loss and grief. In the almost seventeen years I have worked in the human services field, a prominent occurrence has been grief. C. S. Lewis said if we…