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Collaborate with ProBerco!
ProBerco is dedicated to empowering adults with disabilities by providing essential services, support, and opportunities for personal and professional growth. You can help us transform lives by collaborating with ProBerco in these important initiatives:
Employment Services: Let us do the work for you!
Examples of positions and work skills:
- Food services (including food prep and cleaning)
- Housekeeping
- Receptionist
- Assembly
- Packaging
- Operating machinery
- Collating
- Cleaning
- Labeling
- Heat Sealing
- Folding
- Shredding and more!
There are many benefits for businesses to partner with ProBerco:
- We’re a staffing resource: Just ask some of our business partners; Aramark, Austin Hardware, Bimbo Bakery, Bewley’s Irish Imports, KKBS Facility Services, Sweet Street Desserts, and Unique Snacks to name a few.
- Improve work culture by promoting diversity
- Create a positive community image of your company
- Businesses can pursue Federal & State tax incentives
- Liability insurance coverage provided by ProBerco
- We provide the training and on-boarding

Consider: Staffing Solutions
Have staffing needs? ProBerco can help. Because we know that people with disabilities have the potential to make a difference in the business community, we work 1:1 with individuals to provide them with the skills and training they need for competitive gainful employment.
Our Employment Specialist will:
- Work individually with new hires:
- Provide assistance throughout the on-boarding and orientation process
- Train individuals to do the job to employers’ satisfaction
- Provide on-going support for successful employment
Interested in learning more? Contact Afiyo Awouya at 610-372-4637, ext. 402, or via email at aawouya@prospectusberco.org.
Employment Teams
ProBerco has a professional team of individuals who can come to your place of work. While individuals are paid a competitive wage for services, businesses experience a reduced cost in expenses because Individuals are employed and insured by ProBerco.
The Employment Team includes a professionally trained Employment Specialist who supervises individuals and provides on-going training as needed for the successful completion of assignments. The supervisor remains with the Employment Team throughout the shift and serves as a liaison between the employer and the workers.
Employment crews can assist with assembly, packaging, operating machinery, collating, food prep, and cleaning to name o few.
To learn more about contracting a ProBerco Employment Crew for your Business contact Ginnie Haggerty at ghaggerty@proberco.org, or call -610.372.4637, ext.401.


Production & Assembly Services
ProBerco has a well-established production and assembly business located in Reading, PA. We have contracted with many local and regional businesses to provide efficient and timely services at affordable costs.
Services include custom assembly and packaging, labeling, heat sealing, collating, folding, and shredding. In addition, we have a clean room for packaging food products.
To learn more about contracting a ProBerco Employment Crew for your Business contact Ginnie Haggerty at ghaggerty@proberco.org, or call -610.372.4637, ext. 401.
Becoming a Life Sharing Provider:
“A life shared is a life enriched” underscores the profound value of sharing one’s experiences, joys, and challenges with others. Through the ProBerco Life Sharing Program, individuals are matched with families who open their homes, fostering a sense of belonging, support, and fulfillment for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. These agreements can be deeply rewarding for both the individuals and the families involved.
Becoming an Independent Life Sharing Contractor is a significant decision but offers many rewards for people who want to do more to serve their community.
Become an Independent Life Sharing Provider if you want to:
- know you are making a difference in the life of an adult with a disability.
- provide a safe, stable, and loving home for an adult with a disability and improve their
well-being. - develop a meaningful relationship with another person that can last a lifetime.
- know you are helping to build a strong community by resolving housing needs of adults with disabilities.
ProBerco works with families to become Independent Life Sharing Contractors. Once a family is eligible, ProBerco will align the family with an individual who is interested in participating in the Life Sharing program. Life Sharing providers are independent contractors supported by ProBerco and are compensated at a tax-free daily rate paid in bi-weekly stipends to offset expenses for sharing their home.
What other conditions are there to become a Life Sharing Provider?
- Valid Driver’s License.
- Computer with Wi-Fi, Landline, and Cable
- Criminal background checks for everyone 18 and older.
- Pass a physical, Mantoux test, and free of communicable diseases statement.
- Complete fire safety training.
- Complete CPR, First Aide and Safety Training.
- Training to prepare you for your provider role.
- Accompany individuals to medical and personal appointments and serve as an advocate.
ProBerco will assist Life Sharing Providers in obtaining the required training to become a provider and will continue to provide on-going support to ensure that the placement is successful.
In addition, Life Sharing Providers will receive paid days for personal matters, or to simply enjoy a vacation while someone else provides the support.
Still interested in learning more about becoming a Life Sharing Provider?
Complete our Inquiry:

Opportunities for Community Participation Supports facility
We are looking for more outside connections to fulfill life skill opportunities which would need to be during the week from approximately 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and within ½ hour distance of our facility.
Opportunities are geared toward relationship building with community members and in giving back to the community. Program participants have been active with Meals on Wheels, shopping for senior citizens with Berks Encore, working on activities at local churches, visiting senior centers, stocking shelves at ReStore, etc.