Meet Heaven.
The first thing you should know about Heaven: she never gives up.
Starting at a young age, Heaven had to take on a lot of adult responsibilities, which made it hard for her to connect with her peers. When she turned 16, she started working where many of her family members work…
After overcoming challenges to graduate from high school, Josh was eager to enter the workforce. Understanding that he needed additional support to secure a job, he and his family turned to Goodwill.Together with his Goodwill Career Navigator he searched for job openings, completed applicati…
Meet Jayla.
After graduating high school, Jayla was eager to find a job that was perfect for her. To get the skills she needed to start a career, Jayla participated in Project SEARCH, a high school transitional program that provides real-life work experience to help youth with significant b…
Zachary has a way of talking to his employees that make them respect him and want to follow him. He’s not just a supervisor - he’s a leader.
When Zachary started at AbilityOne, his wife and children were thousands of miles away, and he struggled with poor attendance. Rather than…
To say Preston doesn’t like change would be a major understatement. When he first enrolled in Project SEARCH, he refused to come into the classroom and meet Goodwill’s Skills Trainer and the teacher from the North Kansas City school district.
Project SEARCH is a partnershi…
Meet Shandi. Ten years ago, Shandi was a Goodwill success story. A client with great work ethic, she had earned and kept employment in her former placement. But when Shandi came back to Goodwill last year, she was not working. The loss of employment put her family in turmoil. She knew t…
