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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:

  • Use of office equipment and supplies

  • Microsoft Office Programs

  • Data Entry & Word Processing

  • Mavis Beacon Typing Program

  • Safety Skills

Individual Job Placement Options

For more information about individual job placement opportunities, please click the link to email inquiries.