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National Disability Employment Awareness Month

The Arc Carroll County is proud to support National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM). Held each October, NDEAM aims to educate about disability employment issues and celebrate the many and varied contributions of America’s workers with disabilities. Throughout the month, we’ll be engaging in a variety of activities to educate our employers on disability employment issues and the role they play in fostering a disability-friendly work culture.

We’d like to thank the following businesses for their support.

2018 Business Partners – The Arc Carroll County

AutoDot

Best Western

Bertucco’s Bakery

BG&E

Boscov’s Town Mall

Bullocks

Boys and Girls Club

Carlisle, etc.

Carroll Community College Café

Carroll County Public School; East Middle and Sykesville Middle

Carroll Hospital Center

Carroll County Recycle Center

Carroll County Youth Service Bureau

Circuit Court, Westminster

Country Kitchen

CVS

Doceo Growth

Fuchs North America

Home Depot

Homestead-Sunvalley

Jiffy Mart

Koons Toyota

Life is Pizza

Lowe’s

Martin’s

Marshalls

Michaels

Montessori School

MD Horse Rescue

MD State Dept. of Public Safety

NCRC Dance Studio

Old Towne Bakery

Open Professional Group

Paradiso

PSA Insurance

Pizza Hut

Roy Rogers Restaurant

Random House

Rite Aid

RockSalt Grille

Ron’s Auto Collision

Safeway

Simple Cell, Inc.

Sodexo

Sheriff’s Department

Stambaugh’s

Springdale Preparatory School

Stone House Bakery

Sun Valley Assisted Living

T.J. Max

Target

Therafit

Tractor Supply Company

Uniontown Bible Church

Walmart

Walgreens

Weis Westminster

Weis Hampstead

Westminster Rescue Mission

Westminster Car Wash

YMCA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shari Carver, Assistant Director of Service Planning & Community Partnerships

Shari has a lifelong passion of working with direct support staff and the community to embrace adults with disabilities and for those with developmental disabilities to embrace their community. Shari has served as a Behavioral Principles and Strategies Master Trainer for the State and a Positive Behavior Supports Trainer. The daughter of a hometown City Schools Special Education Supervisor, she began her career in Findlay, Ohio in 1979.   She has over 31 years in the field.   Shari will be implementing  programs and help us through transformation into community-based services. A proud Mother of two, she resides in Finksburg with her cat Nala.

Summer Youth Employment 2018 was a great success due to our hard working college and high school interns. This year’s employment program included  32 students and 26 business partners, which made this our largest and most successful year.  We had 10 students end the program with a paid permanent position!  The Arc Carroll County wants to thank DORS, The Arc staff, students, families, and business partners for their support of this work readiness program.  Click here to view photos.

Check out the CCT editorial on the Summer Youth Jobs Program

Once again, we want to thank all the employers that have made this program so successful.

Click here to read the story published in today’s edition of the Carroll County Times.   It focuses on our Summer Youth Work Experience.