October 6th, 2017
While our CBDS Mobile program is employment focused, we also value cultural enrichment, fitness, and recreation, among so much more, always ensuring our Guests have a well-rounded experience, each and every day. Staying up with current events, one of our mobile groups opted into getting involved with the relief effort for Puerto Rico. Our Colleague [...]
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Filed Under: American Training Family, Day Services
September 29th, 2017
Our innovative CBDS Mobile program has our mobile groups venturing all around the cities and towns we call home. From job tours to museum visits, yoga in the park to local farm visits, we are out and about exploring, learning, and growing. Our Colleagues and Guests in the program have discovered aspects of their communities [...]
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Filed Under: American Training Family, Day Services
September 22nd, 2017
American Training is home to many Exceptional Colleagues. They come to us with exceptional qualities. Then we help them bring those qualities to the forefront by placing them in positions that let them shine, giving them opportunities that help them grow, and encouraging them to live their passion, here at ATI and beyond our walls. [...]
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Filed Under: American Training Family, Day Services, Vanway
September 15th, 2017
In honor of Direct Support Professionals Recognition Week, our managers celebrated our direct care Colleagues in so many ways. There were pizza parties and prize raffles, handmade gifts and thoughtful handwritten cards. There was even a song written by one of our Colleagues and performed for her entire team! Below, is another form of recognition [...]
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Filed Under: American Training Family, Specialized Housing
September 14th, 2017
With your help, your generosity, your donations, we collected 1,326 lbs. of food for our local food pantries. According to USDA calculations, that’s 1,105 meals! WOW! From September through November, our Vanway Colleagues were hard at work, spreading the word of our annual Food Drive, picking up donations, collecting at our area Market Baskets, and [...]
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Filed Under: American Training Family, Vanway
August 22nd, 2017
We count ourselves lucky to have such wonderful interns each year. And, we always want to make sure our interns have Outrageously Memorable experiences here with Unique & Different opportunities to learn and grow, and add to their resumes. So, this summer, we worked hard to give our People & Culture intern, Samantha, an unforgettable [...]
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Filed Under: American Training Family, People & Culture
August 15th, 2017
One of the most amazing things here at American Training is the relationship between our Colleagues and those we serve. Our Colleagues in Day Services and Clinical Services work hard to meet our Guests’ needs each and every day. They also go to great lengths to help them accomplish their goals and obtain their wants [...]
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Filed Under: American Training Family, Clinical Services, Day Services
August 1st, 2017
Wild hairstyles, mismatched outfits, and football pads filled the halls of American Training, leaving our ATI Family with one conclusion: it must be Vanway’s Spirit Week! For the second year in a row, our Vanway Colleagues participated in a festive week of wacky attire and fun. How the week came to be! During the branch’s [...]
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Filed Under: American Training Family, Vanway
July 28th, 2017
All summer long, our HR intern, Samantha, has been helping us with filing, creating emails, assisting with trainings, and even developing content for our website. She’s been so helpful and has learned so much about workplace etiquette in her time here. But we wanted to give her a truly WOW! Magic experience this summer, so [...]
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Filed Under: American Training Family, Human Resources
July 7th, 2017
You’ve completed our Next Step Program and have either finished or are about to finish working on your internships. As an added service, we are happy to offer an afternoon of information at our What’s Next: StarWorks Open House. Thursday, July 20 3 pm to 6 pm American Training 6 Campanelli Drive, Andover We’ll help [...]
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Filed Under: American Training Family, StarWorks