a not-for-profit business specializing in custom screen-printed merchandise… employs seriously and persistently mentally ill people, as well as developmentally disabled individuals.
Imagine a job environment where employees can’t wait to come to work. A place where workers have to be told to take a day off. And where the work force, which generated $700,000 in gross sales last year, is viewed by most people as “unemployable.”
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…workers have conditions such as schizophrenia, bi-polar disorders or severe depression, this is the first time they’ve held down meaningful steady employment…
…the job is a welcome relief from mopping floors at a local fast-food restaurant.
“You can’t imagine what it’s like for them to walk in the mall and see someone wearing a T-shirt they made,” …
…In rare instances where employees are hospitalized because of a relapse of their mental illness, their jobs are held indefinitely.
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…workers have conditions such as schizophrenia, bi-polar disorders or severe depression, this is the first time they’ve held down meaningful steady employment…
…the job is a welcome relief from mopping floors at a local fast-food restaurant.
“You can’t imagine what it’s like for them to walk in the mall and see someone wearing a T-shirt they made,” …
…In rare instances where employees are hospitalized because of a relapse of their mental illness, their jobs are held indefinitely.