[caption id="attachment_8849" align="alignleft" width="224"] Jay and Keith serve up some smiles in front of Bonkey's flagship Ice Cream & Snoballs shop in New Freedom, Pennsylvania.[/caption]Jay Griffin loves Bonkey’s Ice Cream & Snoballs, not because of their delicious frozen confections (in which he would surely indulge,...
[caption id="attachment_8481" align="alignleft" width="225"] Coty Dougherty prepares to load a tube onto the bailer at Greif York.[/caption] After a hard day’s work, Coty Daugherty likes to come home, kick off his boots and relax. His job at Greif York is physically demanding, but he loves it....
[caption id="attachment_8376" align="alignleft" width="163"] Sheetz General Manager Lisa Reichow with Brian Honeychuck. Photo Credit: Lisa Reichow.[/caption] Something has been brewing at Sheetz besides coffee these past few years. It isn’t anything that can be purchased at the store’s nearly 700 locations in six states. It is,...
By Courtenay Dudek, Job Developer, DSP III | Penn-Mar Human Services[caption id="attachment_8294" align="alignleft" width="225"] EJ on the job at Penguin Random House sporting his new ID badge[/caption]Eric Heine, who prefers to go by EJ, recently landed his first paid job.“Since high school, I’ve wanted a...
By Courtenay Dudek, Job Developer, DSP III | Penn-Mar Human Services Snavely Forest Products, LLC has employed Patrick Dawson for over eight years. He started as a sweeper, cleaning up scrap wood, plastic covering, bands, and lots of dust. When Penn-Mar West still had a day...
By Courtenay Dudek, Employment Coordinator, DSP III | Penn-Mar Human Services Penn-Mar has partnered with the Department of Rehabilitation Services (DORS) for many years in Maryland. As a Vocational Rehabilitation Partner, the Penn-Mar West employment team has worked with DORS in supporting people with intellectual disabilities...
By Courtenay Dudek, Employment Coordinator, DSP III | Penn-Mar Human Services [caption id="attachment_7297" align="alignleft" width="259"] Kristen with her new boss and owner of JeannieBird Bakery, Bernie.[/caption]Kristen Tracey had been looking for a job for a year and a half, sending resumes, going to businesses, speaking to...
By Courtenay Dudek, Employment Coordinator, DSP III | Penn-Mar Human Services [caption id="attachment_6258" align="alignleft" width="268"] Bryan May in the cafeteria at his job at AVI Food Systems, taken by Erin Brady.[/caption] McDaniel College is set on the hill overlooking the town of Westminster. Penn-Mar has taught a Pre-Employment Transition Services...
[caption id="attachment_6046" align="alignleft" width="300"] Stephanie Carpegna loves her job at Panera Bread in Westminster, where she’s worked for the past 17 years.[/caption]Ever since its doors opened 17 years ago, Panera Bread on Clifton Boulevard in Westminster, Maryland, has seen its fair share of managers and...
By Kevin Walker, Penn-Mar Consulting, Business Development Director, and Tricia Zeltwanger, Penn-Mar Career Counselor Just as the national Employment First movement has grown exponentially over the last two decades, so too has Penn-Mar and its success in providing Competitive Integrated Employment (CIE) services to men and...