Help us put a dent in homelessness through employment.

We are promoting Human Welfare through hope, dignity, and a pathway out of poverty through employment opportunities!

THE EMPLOYMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

TheEMPC has used a 100% volunteer workforce, many of whom are unemployed, underemployed and/or branded unemployable to divert tons of food each year from the sanitary landfill to the tables of thousands of families and the hands of the homeless who other wise would go hungry.
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The Employment Development Component has been instrumental at putting people to work and diverting them from homelessness, and restoring individuals to self sufficiency.
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This has been a winning situation for the people who serve and the ones who are served. In fact, many of the volunteers who have and now serve their fellow needy community members came because they needed food, and made a quality decision to help serve others. Each time individuals donate time and labor to the Food Distribution Program they are able to take home free groceries.
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For many receiving free groceries, is not the only benefit of their willingness to give back. However, as a result of the training, work experience, hands on coaching in work readiness, resources and supplies needed to go to work that we supply (transportation, clothing, certifications and documentation), plus assistance in applying, following up and securing employment; up to 85 people go to work and/or obtain upgrades in current jobs each year. These individuals have been empowered to reverse the cycle of poverty and become self sufficient contributors to the community!

The Humanitarian day 5K fun run/walk will enable us to empower more people to go to work and put a dent in homelessness through employment.