Even before the pandemic, finding and keeping employees to work as job and community coaches for The Arc Northern Chesapeake Region could be challenging.
But the Aberdeen, Maryland-based nonprofit, which serves more than 400 adults with disabilities and another 300 client families, now finds itself — like so many employers — needing dozens of workers.
The group was used to turnover as workers left for higher-paying jobs, but it shed even more during the pandemic as those who were parents dealt with kids learning at home or the lack of child care.
