3rd Quarter Spotlight Award Winner - 2024
Amelia Begley
Employment Specialist
Developmental Services Inc. (DSI)
We are proud to announce Amelia Begley as the recipient of our 3rd Quarter Spotlight Award.
This award honors an employment support staff who goes above and beyond for individuals every day!
According to Chris Lowry, Development Services Inc. (DSI), Amelia is committed to being the best Employment Specialist possible by furthering her training at every opportunity. She is always the first to help out other co-workers, which has allowed her to gain a better understanding of new roles and responsibilities. She does all of this while continuing to pursue her education in the human and social services field.
“Amelia’s relentlessness is
the characteristic that allows her to excel. She makes clients take responsibility and gives them multiple chances to succeed.”
Amelia’s relentlessness is the characteristic that allows her to excel. She makes clients take responsibility and gives them multiple chances to succeed. She will constantly follow up with businesses and make them give her a “yes” or “no” one way or the other when pursuing activities like job shadows, informational interviews, or actual employment. She truly wants what is best for the client and to see them succeed. Amelia is constantly writing and sending “thank you” notes to businesses thanking them for their time that they spend with her clients for activities such as informational interviews, job shadows, or work-based learning experiences. She is honest when it comes to the skills her clients have and how they may or may not fit in with whatever opening a business has.
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