Employment Services
What is the Employment Service Program?
The Arc Prince George’s County Employment Services Program offers individuals the opportunity to maximize their employment potential in an integrated work setting, while allowing businesses and other organizations to tap into a labor pool and provide work and training opportunities for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
How Does it Work?
At The Arc, staff will strive to ensure that individuals in the Employment Services Program prosper in their chosen career paths, in an inclusive work setting. The steps we take include:
- Aggressive, continual, community outreach to provide individuals supported with more employment choices and opportunities
- Assessment of skills and desires to place individuals in the most appropriate employment settings
- Involvement of an individual’s entire support network in the employment process
- On-site job coaching as needed to ensure all individuals receive the support needed to succeed in their jobs
- Coordination of all the resources needed for successful employment, including:
- Assistance in completing applications
- Transportation
- On the job training
What Type of Work do Individuals in the Employment Services Program Do?
People with intellectual and developmental disabilities are like non-disabled employees in their skills and interests. Positions filled by Employment Services Program individuals have included:
- Receptionist
- File Clerk
- Warehouse
- Custodian
- Retail
- General Office Work
- Environmental Services Policing Common Grounds
- Food Service
- Child Care
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Partner Employers
| Homeland Security |
| St. Ann’s Infant Home |
| Giant Food’s |
| DDA-SMRO |
| B.K. Miller |
| Safeway |
| University of Maryland – North Campus |
| University of Maryland – South Campus |
| Resource Connections |
| First United Methodist Church |
| Cresent Cities Center |
| Uniform Services University Health Services |
| Ross Department |
| MNCPPC – John Howard, Glen Arden and several other Community Centers, Parks in North, South and Centeral regions |
| Pentagon |
| FBI |
| NASA |
| Sydney Yates Building |
| Beltsville Articultural Research Center |
| Ronald Regan Building |
| Dynamix Coroporation |
| FCC |
| Giant – Largo |
| Giant – PG Plaza |
| Chick Fil A |
| Greenbelt Nursey School |
| Safeway- Northeast DC |
| Safeway – Northwest DC |
| Bed Bath and Beyond |
| Forbush School |
| Safeway – Southeast DC |
| Heartland |
| Food for Friends |
| Andrews Airforce Base- The Commissary |
| Collington Retirement Community |
| Wegman’s Superstore |
| Home Depot |
| Bowie State University |
| Regal Cinema |
| Elizabeth Seton High School |
| T.J Maxx |
| Old Line Bank |
| SCK Early Education Center (Penn Station) |
| Precious Gems |
| Forestville Health + Rehabilatation Center |
| Prince George’s County MD Dept. of Enviormental Resources Animal Management Division |
| Krispy Kreme |
| Dave & Buster’s |
| Bowie Ourisman Jeep |
| Walrus Oyster and Ale House |
When you employ workers from The Arc Prince George’s County, you add diversity to your workforce while hiring well-trained, job-ready candidates.
CURRICULUM HIGHLIGHTS:
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Use of office equipment and supplies
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Microsoft Office Programs
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Data Entry & Word Processing
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Mavis Beacon Typing Program
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Safety Skills
Individual Job Placement Options
For more information about individual job placement opportunities, please click the link to email inquiries.
