SARASOTA/BRADENTON, FL – Goodwill Manasota not too long ago acquired a grant of $65,000 from the Ralph S. French Charitable Basis in assist of Goodwill’s award-winning GoodPartner Coach program. That is the thirteenth yr that Goodwill has acquired funding from the French Basis for this objective; the funds awarded will assist to defray prices related to the salaries and advantages of two GoodPartner Coaches.
The GoodPartner Coach program affords people with disabilities and different obstacles to employment – of Goodwill’s 800 staff, roughly 70% have a self-identified incapacity or drawback – with employability abilities coaching and case administration companies. The objective of this system is to allow those that could have been missed elsewhere to realize optimistic private and office behaviors and abilities, really feel the satisfaction of incomes a paycheck and transfer towards self-sufficiency, construct a robust work historical past, and develop the expertise and abilities to place them for higher-paying jobs throughout the group or outdoors of Goodwill.
In 2022, a major variety of Goodwill Manasota’s staff represented the next demographics: individuals with disabilities, older staff, talking a major language apart from English, lack of a highschool diploma, and those that are justice concerned. People with important obstacles require greater than only a job to maneuver towards self-sufficiency. Consequently, Goodwill supplies every crew member with full-time employment, a aggressive wage (all staff earn at the very least $14 an hour) and a life coach.
The GoodPartner Coaches work with crew members to do wants assessments to find out obstacles to self-sufficiency and determine areas that may very well be strengthened by coaching in addition to decide entry to primary wants corresponding to housing, meals and healthcare. Different program parts embrace the writing of an individualized improvement plan, providing case administration companies to deal with any points that is perhaps an obstacle to success, monetary literacy training, referrals for authorized companies, referrals for psychological well being counseling or bodily restoration companies, ESOL courses, GED or highschool diploma packages, digital navigation abilities coaching, help in incomes coaching certificates, and/or emergency monetary sources.
“The GoodPartner Coach Program has been instrumental in offering crew members with important coaching and training that serve to reinforce their employability abilities, enhance their incomes potential, and assist them to set – and obtain – targets they could not have beforehand thought potential,” mentioned Margie Genter, vp of mission companies for Goodwill Manasota. “Due to the beneficiant ongoing assist from our buddies on the Ralph S. French Charitable Basis, our GoodPartner Coach program can proceed to work to spice up the profession and life prospects for our staff and their households.”
Targets for the GoodPartner Coach program in 2023 are: to serve all 800 crew members in setting and attaining life and work targets; present ESOL courses to 31 staff in addition to serve 20 crew members who converse little or no English; help 24 crew members in incomes a GED or highschool diploma; assist 85 crew members to safe post-secondary certifications and/or levels; help 483 staff turning into Licensed Function Mannequin Staff to reinforce employability abilities; present monetary literacy coaching to 600 crew members; help 100 crew members with digital literacy abilities; and help 66% of all crew members in attaining at the very least one objective on their individualized improvement plans.
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About Goodwill Manasota
Goodwill Manasota is an industry-leading 501(c)(3) nonprofit group that modifications lives by the ability of labor. With philanthropic donations and income generated by the gross sales of donated items, Goodwill is ready to help folks with disabilities, veterans, seniors, and people with different obstacles to employment by offering jobs, job abilities coaching, and free profession companies. For extra info or for a list of places, go to www.experiencegoodwill.org or name 941-355-2721.