How The Arc Can Help Your Business:

If your business is looking for qualified, diligent workers, The Arc of Baltimore Employment Services can help. Drawing from our large pool of motivated, dedicated workers with mental retardation and/or other developmental disabilities, we provide ongoing placement, job training, support, and supervision. This ensures that the high quality standards of your business are continually met efficiently and cost-effectively.

Our workers have earned a well-deserved reputation for excellence and hard work with area businesses. Established more than 25 years ago, The Arc of Baltimore Employment Services is the largest community-based employment program in the nation, with nearly 550 workers in diverse jobs throughout Baltimore.

Here's how it works:

• Individual Placements
• Employment Consultation
  
  The Arc of Baltimore recognizes that each company's personnel needs are different. Our employment counselors work with you to determine your specific job requirements. We then tailor our services to fulfill those expectations. Our professional staff will provide:

• Personnel Recommendations:
  Upon careful screening, our employment counselors will recommend appropriate qualified job candidates for your consideration. We will discuss these recommendations with you before you talk to the potential employee(s). Final contact with job candidates will be made at your discretion.
• On-Site Support and Training:
  When you hire a supported worker from The Arc of Baltimore, you receive expert, on-site training, support and supervision at no additional cost to you. Our coaches remain on the job with the individual for a period of time to ensure a successful transition and quality assurance. Our commitment to your business continues throughout the employee's service to your company.

Group Employment

• On-site Employment
  If you need larger jobs, a job coach can supervise a group of individuals with disabilities at your job site on an ongoing basis. The job coach will make sure the work is completed to meet the company standards. The Arc is responsible for payroll, benefits and transportation. We are very experienced in Laundry, Housekeeping and Production and Assembly work.

Janitorial Services provides mobile crews for janitorial and maintenance work through various commercial contracts. Employees are trained to use state-of-the-art equipment and techniques, including all aspects of floor care.

Landscape Services provides mobile crews that perform such jobs as planting, weeding, raking, pruning, lawn care, general maintenance and related work for a variety of commercial contract sites. Additionally, employees are instructed in the safe operation of power equipment, including the use of tractors and front-end loaders.

Subcontract Services handles packaging and assembly operations at an extremely competitive cost for a wide range of local, national and international businesses. From limited production runs to high-volume assignments, The Arc of Baltimore's Subcontract Services can mean significant savings in both cost and time for your business. The Arc of Baltimore's Subcontract Services’ primary plant located in the Rutherford business park has more than 12,000 square feet of available production space. Four additional satellite locations throughout the Baltimore area offer packaging, shrink-wrapping, heat sealing, industrial stapling, material assembly, collation, and bulk mailing.