Empowering individuals for long-term employment.
AccessAbility supports individuals seeking greater stability, including communities of color, ethnic minorities, and those overcoming substance use, justice system involvement, or homelessness. Many participants face significant barriers to employment, such as limited work history, unemployment, or underemployment.
Our programs offer immediate paid work opportunities to build job skills and work history in just 30 days.
Through Project Connect, staff and participants collaborate on personalized vocational plans that lead to meaningful employment and personal growth.
Transitional Employment Services
Project Connect works with Fischer ReEntry Consulting LLC to provide classes and job readiness training.
Pictured above: participants from our largest Essential Business Skills class back in April 2025.
Works of Heart: Building skills through creative work
Works of Heart, AccessAbility’s social enterprise, provides paid work experience through the production of handcrafted gifts and home décor. Participants gain valuable, transferable skills in areas such as manufacturing, laser and wood cutting, painting, quality control, printing, assembly, and warehousing.
Four work tracks—print production, shipping and receiving, wood shop, and facilities—offer hands-on experience that helps bridge the gap to competitive employment in the community.
Education
AccessAbility offers adult basic education, financial literacy and budgeting, and essential business skills training.
Job Readiness
Along with education, AccessAbility offers resume writing workshops, mock interviewing, job search strategies, and sharing work opportunities with AccessAbility.
Individuals with community based employment can receive follow up and retention services to ensure long term success.
Vocational Training
In tandem with education and job readiness, program participants can take advantage of certification through AccessAbility. Participants can obtain their forklift/scissor lift certification, OSHA certification, and also take advantage of training opportunities in CDL, CNC, welding, plumbing, and more.
I’m a good example of somebody that now has a career because people are giving. I’m paying it forward by being here and setting that example and giving my story. – Mark S.
