ASHLEY
When Ashley Bowen met us, she was working 4 jobs and making $64,000 a year working 80 hours a week to support herself and her son.
After an interview facilitated by WFLC's partners, Ashley got a job at Urban Atlantic. As soon as she started, Ashley took over purchasing the snacks for the office, and her supervisor noted that she was economical with snacks, and started saving the company money... intuitively.
Ashley is now making over $75,000 a year, in a position Urban Atlantic created specifically for her. After just a few months, she was promoted, for a second time, to the office manager job.
LAMASIA
Lamasia met us at a Job Fair held on the Park Morton job site. She had RTA and we instantly signed her up to our Platform. PCC identified education and transportation as her main employment barriers, so we enrolled her in The Chart Academy through the WFLC partnership and encouraged her to begin taking GED courses as well.
Lamasia now has her GED, and is a Graduate of the Chart Academy. She secured an internship with RISE, a program to enrich the community.
JERELL
Jerell is a returning citizen intent upon bettering his life. He has stayed with us despite minor setbacks.
Jerell gained an opportunity to interview at Carter Site Services. He woke up at 5am for a 6:00am interview, and we ensured he had a ride to drive him to the interview. Jerell was hired that day. Jerell enrolled in Heavy Machinery Classes along with his work at CSS, to further his skill set and social mobility.
BRUCE
Bruce was living in a halfway house when he encountered us. We connected him with the MLuis job fair and they liked him from day one. However, his halfway house refused to allow his employment.
The day Bruce was released from the halfway house, he was hired at MLuis. He is now training to be a concrete finisher in order to advance his career options. He has not missed a day.
CARLOS
Carlos served eight years in the system. He dealt with countless issues including being sent to a halfway house in Delaware and having no clothes. He also had trouble getting a license as he had a lot of back-child support. He also had access to a car revoked once his family realized he was on the straight and narrow.
Carter Site loved Carlos and hired him on the spot. Unfortunately, after his first paycheck, Carlos had his bank account drained by the child support office in his state in error. WFLC reimbursed him to keep him on the road to success, and we met with the child support office in his home state and managed to get Carlos' child support debt issues fixed. His license was reinstated.
Carlos used the funds we reimbursed to save for and purchase a car.