Horizon Goodwill Industries
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Most people know that Horizon Goodwill Industries’ stores are go-to resources for donating items and finding gently used clothing and household items at exceptional deals. But, do you know these other facts about Horizon Goodwill Industries?
At Horizon Goodwill Industries, we understand the challenges and concerns faced daily by people with barriers to work. We assist many people with disabilities or medical conditions who need support to find and maintain employment. Others seeking services have limited education and work experience, a criminal record, a history of substance abuse, or have lost their jobs due to changes in the economy.
Our programs and services offer help and hope for those who want to work. Every Tuesday from 8 a.m. to noon, we offer an Open Enrollment program to help people look for jobs. Each participant’s service needs are different, but Horizon Goodwill offers a number of job training programs to guide you in changing your life. Our vocational services include:
1. Career Planning & Assessment
Find out what you enjoy, what your skills and abilities are, and what strengths you have that can help you in a work environment. Learn more about you in relation to defining or changing your career path.
2. Work Experience
We offer paid and unpaid work training to prepare you for competitive employment. Build and practice work skills and habits in real work environments that make you more employable. Classroom training assists you to develop behaviors and motivation. It provides you with information related to community referrals and ongoing support resources, including case management and benefits counseling.
3. Job Readiness Training
We offer group training sessions, peer support, and individual instruction for job seekers to help develop the motivation, skills, materials, and linkages needed to secure a job and stay employed. We are here to assist you to develop networks and job leads, create resumes that get attention, learn useful techniques to complete job applications and practice interviewing skills.
4. Job Placement
We offer assistance with finding employment. This helps with job development, job searching, job matching, and job placement. We will maintain contact with you after placement to ensure job satisfaction. When entering this program, you should have an established work history, identified career goals, and be prepared to work in a competitive setting.
5. Job Resource Center
Utilize our computers, phone, and fax as well as job listings and online assessments and training to explore your career options. Carry out your job search, create and post your resume, and fill out job applications. Create your cover letters, thank you letters to potential employers, and other job-related documents to help you secure employment. Reference materials and staff assistance are available to assist with these tasks.
6. Post-Employment Support
We offer job coaching, job retention services, and/or participation in peer support group activities and committees to help you adjust to a new work routine, learn new job duties, plan and manage your finances, and resolve work, social and family issues to promote your success on the job and to enhance your career prospects.
To learn more about our vocational services, call us today at 301-733-7330 or click here.
For the next 6 weeks Horizon Goodwill Industries will be asking YOU to submit all of your de-clutter and organizational triumphs around your home. We want to see before and after de-clutter pictures: pre- and post-spring cleaning of your closets, garages, dens, living rooms, laundry rooms – any place in your home that you can think of that needs a little TLC.
Please send these pictures to us via Facebook or Twitter with the hashtag #SpringClear for a chance to win one of 3 prizes. First place will win a $100 dollar gift certificate to our stores! Second place will win a $50 dollar gift certificate and third place will win $25 dollar gift certificate. All winners will also walk away with a Clutter Diet book that is full of ways to prevent clutter and organizational tips from Goodwill’s very own spokeswoman Lorie Marrero!
We will take submissions March 10th – April 21st and the winners will be announced April 28th 2014.
Entries will be judged on the number of likes, shares and re-tweets plus how well our contestants de-cluttered their space.
Now that you have a de-cluttered casa it’s time to donate all your unwanted items that didn’t make the cut! Donate to Horizon Goodwill Industries. Your newly de-cluttered home can provide job training to the community. Everyone wins when you donate to Horizon Goodwill Industries. We have donation centers located in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. Please follow this link to find the closest donation location to you. #SpringClear
We are excited to see all of your home makeovers!
Horizon Goodwill Industries is urging people to donate gently used clothing and other items to their nearest Goodwill retail store or donation center. You can locate the nearest donation site at http://www.horizongoodwill.org/donate/donate-locations/. We are seeing the effects of the modestly growing economy and our shoppers are eager to find great items at a good price. Our donations are not keeping pace with the demand. This time of year we do experience a slight drop in donor activity due to winter weather, but we are asking for your help. This year it is especially needed due to the numerous weather events we have seen in the first five weeks of 2014.
“Donations to Goodwill allow us to provide job training and career services to people with disabilities, welfare recipients, dislocated workers and other job seekers,” says Craig MacLean, President and CEO of Horizon Goodwill Industries. “Last year, we helped more than 2,000 people with job training and job placement – the community’s support is vital to this effort.” The increase in shoppers means that Goodwill can help even more people in the community.
Items most wanted right now include:
All types of gently used clothing and other textiles: coats, shoes, boots, shirts, blouses, jeans, sweaters, business suits, dresses, skirts, sweat suits, towels, sheets, and blankets. Also needed are various household items, including small kitchen appliances, glassware, dishes, and knick-knacks.
Goodwill has spent decades earning the public’s trust. Donors can rest assured that their items are going to a reputable organization that has the community’s interests at heart. Donated goods are sold in Goodwill stores and online, and more than 90 percent of revenues earned go to fund critical job training, career services and other supports that put people to work, strengthen families and build stronger communities. The more you donate, the more Goodwill can help.
Goodwill teaches the skills needed to get – and keep – jobs. Better still, they help fund these programs through your generous donations. The money Goodwill earns from your donated goods funds programs that help people right here in our community find jobs and achieve economic self-sufficiency.
To find the location nearest you, call (800) 435-2480, or visit http://www.horizongoodwill.org/donate/donate-locations/
During the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, many people are searching for ways to give back and help those in need. Even if funds are tight this time of year, people can give back by scouring their homes, closets and garages for gently used items to donate to Horizon Goodwill Industries. At Goodwill®, we turn these donated items into something very real: job training, employment placement services and other community-based programs for people with disabilities.
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