Celebrating 35 Years of Excellence Archway’s Human Services Department offers a variety of services to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. One of the adult services for individuals with I/DD is Archway’s Residential Community Homes’ Program, which serves adults throughout southern and central New Jersey. This year marks the 35 year anniversary of Archway’s Residential […]
“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” Phil Jackson In July, we officially launched the Archway Employee Crisis Program (AECP), an emergency assistance fund to help support Archway employees during any unforeseen financial hardships they may face. The idea initially came from different employees throughout […]
Compassion is one of the core values Archway Programs was build on and after 54 years, that stands true today and is at the heart of everything Archway does. This year, Archway introduced new benefits for employees and their families, some of which include but is not limited to: Health and Wellness Benefits, Life Management […]
Just Kids and the Girl Scouts of Central and Southern New Jersey teamed up again this year and gave girls at several of the schools it serves a new twist on the program’s before and after school care. Girls at Archway’s Just Kids Program discovered what it means to be a G.I.R.L. (go-getter, innovator, risk-taker […]
The 2019 Special Olympics New Jersey (SONJ) Summer Games were held at the College of New Jersey on June 7-9th. One of our clients, Natalyn, attended opening ceremonies on June 7th and was able to walk into the stadium with her team. On June 8th, she participated in the freestyle 25m swim and won 1st […]
Youth from our Hope and Discover programs learned about kitchen safety during an activities of daily living group. They made some delicious pretzel pizzas and couldn’t wait to share with their peers! Click here to learn more about our partial care youth programs.
Michelina (‘Mickie’) Patetta, Director of Developmental Disabilities Services, has been a part of the Archway family since May 2016. She currently holds a Bachelor’s degree in Special Education/Psychology from Kean University. She has been working in the Human Services field since 1987, and has experience working with both children and adults. Mickie is most passionate […]
Amy Ashe, Marketing Director of two South Jersey Chick-fil-A restaurants, stopped in Blue Violet and Gifts to place special orders for two South Jersey Chick-fil-A restaurants for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day events. Pictured below is Dylan, one of our students from the Archway Lower School who works at Blue Violet Flowers and Gifts as […]
Clients from our ACT Program were treated to a 4th of July BBQ! There were outdoor games like water balloon tossing, water gun fun and relays. Indoor activities included shuffleboard, ring toss and bucket-pong. Indoor activities for those who couldn’t be out in the heat included shuffleboard, ring toss and bucket-pong. Jim and Amy hit […]
Archway employees were touched to receive personally addressed, hand-written thank you cards from our clients in the Adult, Counseling and Therapy (ACT) Program. ACT clients wrote cards to each staff member who volunteered to help renovate their building recently at Archway’s employee-wide Volunteer Day on May 18th, 2019. Some of our employees who volunteered are […]
